Agustin de la Rosa Reyes earns his living as a handyman. But by vocation, he is a listener and healer in the La Esperanza community in El Salvador.
Agustin de la Rosa Reyes: A Listener and Healer
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Maryknoll Magazine Spring 2025
In our Spring 2025 issue, we visit the jungles of Guatemala, where Maryknoll priests have built a dozen chapels, and Hong Kong, where a school founded by the Maryknoll Sisters celebrates its centenary. Of note, too, in this issue is our tribute to the late Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, an Orbis Books author who is considered the father of liberation theology.
This Lenten season, join us in prayer with Maryknoll missioners who live and work in a spirit of hope.
FEATURED STORIES
Focused on Maryknoll missioners around the world working in solidarity among the poor and marginalized. Articles include issues of importance to people the missioners serve and to the Catholic Church.
In Memoriam 2020
Please pray for our Maryknoll missioners who died during the past year.Father John F. AhearnSister Cheryl AllamFather Robert F. AstorinoBrother Luke R. BaldwinSister Lorraine BeinkafnerSister Joan BerningerSister Camille Marie BlackFather J. Ernest BrunelleSister Frances CalcaterraSister Anne...
Beating the Odds with an Immigration Case
A lay missioner’s legal advocacy—with the prayers and support of many—changes Elizabeth’s life forever.
Two Days/One Suitcase for Japanese-Americans
At 87 years old, Helen Hannan Parra is on a mission: to tell everyone she can about the unjust imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Helen Remembers and a Book Is Born
In a new book, Two Days and One Suitcase, Helen Hannan Parra, now in her 80s, shares her childhood memories of life in a Japanese-American internment camp.
Reflecting on a Tragic Salvadoran Anniversary
A former Maryknoll priest associate recalls the night they killed the Jesuits. William Schmidt, a former Maryknoll priest associate, served as a pastor in the Zacamil neighborhood of San Salvador, El Salvador, at the height of the country’s civil war. He recalls those harrowing days when many of...
‘Go Digital or Die’
A Maryknoll priest helps Small Christian Communities in Kenya get online during pandemic crisis. When the Kenyan government ordered the country into lockdown to curtail the spread of the coronavirus earlier this year, Maryknoll Father Joseph Healey remembered a quote from the movie The Sound of...
Honoring George Floyd on 38th & Chicago
On the site of the killing of African-American George Floyd, a white, suburban Minneapolis man vows to combat racism. Late in April 1992, as I made my way home after dark in a West Philadelphia neighborhood, I was set upon by a small group of youths carrying bats and boards. Hours earlier,...
A Heart for Mission
Priest from Malone, N.Y., lives out his call to missionas a Maryknoll priest associate in Bolivia.When Ronald Albarez began his internship in psychology last year, he dealt with cases of domestic violence, sexual abuse and suicide attempts. Feeling discouraged about how much violence and cruelty...
NEWS
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Pope Praises Friendship of Grieving Israeli, Palestinian Fathers
Pope Francis sees the friendship between two fathers who lost children to violence in the Holy...
Chicago Parish Unveils Statue of Christ Mourning Gun Victims
St. Sabina Catholic Church unveiled a statue of Jesus Christ commemorating Chicago’s victims of gun violence in preparation for Holy Week.
‘We Are Not Alone, Abandoned or Afraid,’ Says Patriarch of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
The Catholic community in Jerusalem, led by the courageous Latin patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ushers in Holy Week.
Blessed by Rain on Palm Sunday: A Maryknoll Reflection
A Maryknoll lay missioner reflects on seasonal rains, suffering and the renewal of life during Holy Week.
Pope Urges Church: See the Face of Christ in Migrants
To migrants, pope says, “You are not discarded,” and adds, “you form part of the human family and the family of God’s children.”
South Sudan’s People Suffer a Heavy Burden
The Sudan and South Sudan bishops publish a letter warning that the Sudanese people are “on the brink of destitution.”
Panama Suspends Medical Group Assisting Migrants
Church groups decry the Panama’s ban on Doctors Without Borders, a medical organization that provides health care to migrants.
To End Human Trafficking, Educating Migrants Is Essential, Say Advocates
Leaders including Talitha Kum network’s international coordinator Maryknoll Sister Abby Avelino say that educating migrants is key so they don’t fall prey to traffickers.
Our Covenant with God: A Maryknoll Lenten Reflection
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the covenant that we make with God, with each other and with all of nature.
Haiti’s Violence Leading to Civil War
Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned, and Haiti stands on the brink of civil war, according to Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor of Port-au-Prince, president of the Haitian bishops’ conference.
Texas Judge Blocks Subpoena Targetting Annunciation House
The Annunciation House network of migrant hospitality centers is defended from the state attorney general and a harassment campaign.
Church Leaders Decry School Kidnapping in Nigeria
The abduction of 300 schoolchildren has left Church leaders and parents “speechless,” even in a country where kidnapping is frequent.
Don’t Condemn Others, Says Pope Francis
Citing one of the most beloved verses of the New Testament, Pope Francis calls on Christians to pray for the grace to see others as Jesus sees them — through the eyes of mercy.
God’s Awesome Love: a Maryknoll Lenten Reflection
Reflecting on the upcoming Sunday Mass readings, Maryknoll Father Joseph Thaler says we must share God’s awesome love with each other.
PHOTO MEDITATION
Spirituality
Spirit of Mission: Christ, the fullness of time
The miracle of Christmas is God didn’t just take on our human nature but transformed our chronological time into God’s fullness of time.
Partners in Mission
Diosita Grows up with Maryknoll
If what you learn as a child shapes your maturity, the Balio family from Pantukan, Philippines, is one of the wisest families.
MISSIONER TALES
Vignettes from the lands of mission, told by Maryknoll missioners and volunteers. These popular little stories are sometimes funny, often moving and generally inspiring encounters with people on the margins.
Missioner Tales, Winter 2021
I first met Jose when he participated in my first Theater of the Oppressed group in a parish on the periphery of João Pessoa, Brazil, where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner. Jose (not his real name) was probably 20 years old and very active in the parish. He had...
ORBIS BOOKS SPOTLIGHT
World Watch
Vatican COVID-19 Commission Examines Pastoral and Social Challenges of Pandemic
Pope Francis asks Vatican COVID-19 Commission to focus on four social issue areas: security, economics, ecology and health.
Readers’ Responses
Readers’ Responses Winter 2021
Our readers comment on past articles appearing in Maryknoll magazine under the heading of Readers’ Responses Winter 2021.
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