ur cover story this issue is about Maryknoll’s work on the U.S./Mexico border, where the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, the Maryknoll Sisters and the Maryknoll Lay Missioners all respond to the crisis of displaced people clamoring for asylum. Immigration is a hot-button issue, but as Pope Francis reminds us, all migrants “have faces, names and individual stories.” At the border, Maryknoll, as always, serves those on the margins. At this time of year, the Gospel of Matthew reminds us that the baby Jesus, too, was a refugee. His parents fled with him to safety in a foreign land out of the reach of a maniacal ruler who sought to kill him. (Matthew 2:13-23) “Jesus at the...
