Summer 2022 Archives

From the Editor: Responding to Refugees

by Lynn F. Monahan | Jun 1, 2022 | From The Editor, Summer 2022

As we respond to Afghan and Ukrainian refugees, the Gospel calls us to recognize the similar needs of refugees clamoring at our own borders.

Missioner Tales Summer 2022

by Missioner Tales | Jun 1, 2022 | Missioner Tales, Summer 2022

Missioners offer snippets of mission life in South Sudan and Cambodia and at the U.S./Mexico border, as well as a mission moment in New York.

Young Adult Faith Leads to Action

by Maria-Pia Negro Chin | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured Stories, Summer 2022

The Maryknoll Society’s Young Adult Empowerment (YAE) Communities accompany and empower young adults in their 20s and 30s.

Extending a Hand of Hospitality to Afghan Refugees

by Lynn F. Monahan | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured Stories, Summer 2022

Returned Maryknoll Lay Missioner Merwyn De Mello draws upon his experience living in Afghanistan to help resettle Afghan refugees.

A Family Builds a Home Together

by Deirdre Cornell | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured Stories, Summer 2022

Maryknoll Father Romane St. Vil serves as spiritual leader for Creole-speaking Haitian communities in diaspora in the U.S.

Teaching Young Hearts to Sing

by Claudette LaVerdiere | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured Stories, Summer 2022

Maryknoll Sister Miriam Francis Perlewitz has served for seven decades as teacher and mentor in Bangladesh and other mission sites.

2021 Student Essay Winners

by Maryknoll Magazine | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured Stories, Summer 2022

Maryknoll Student Essay Contest winners for 2021 share “good news” stories from their lives that reflects the Good News message of Jesus.

Walking Together

by Maria-Pia Negro Chin | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured Stories, Summer 2022

Young leader in Los Angeles strives to help others feel welcome in the Church. “We need to create relationships, meet those at the margins, and build communities of inclusion,” she says.

Spirit of Mission: A Saint for Synodality

by Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | Jun 1, 2022 | Spirit of Mission, Spirituality, Summer 2022

Father Joe Veneroso proposes as patron of synodality Mary Magdalene, discredited for 2 millennia and restored by Pope Francis as “Apostle to the Apostles.”

Ukrainians Are Latest Wave of Refugees

by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Jun 1, 2022 | Departments, Summer 2022, World Watch

In the first month alone, the Russian invasion of Ukraine drove an estimated 10 million people from their homes, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.