This Summer 2025 issue of Maryknoll magazine is dedicated to our beloved Pope Francis. Our cover story pays tribute to the pope from Argentina who was a sign of hope and inspiration for the Maryknoll family, the Catholic Church and the world.
While our print magazine went to press before the conclave, our web pages reflect the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first from the United States. The summer issue also includes a statement from Maryknoll’s superior general, addressing current challenges faced by our country.
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.
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...
Maryknoll sister advocates for victims of Japan’s triple disaster caused by an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear accident. After Japan lifted its state of emergency, due to the coronavirus, on May 31, Maryknoll Sister Kathleen Reiley expressed relief that COVID-19 was settling down in the...
A Maryknoll brother teaches that love and dignity come from God.During his years of teaching English in northern China, Maryknoll Brother Joseph Bruener has found a unique way to share God’s love with his university students. He gives them a class exercise to write an affirmation about each of...
Middle school students learn how to respond as Jesus would to world needs today. After a year of participating in the Missionary Discipleship Institute with her class, a student from St. George Catholic School in Seattle said, “I have loved MDI because we don’t always stay in the classroom to...
A Maryknoll lay missioner from Kansas serves with love in Haiti, making masks for her neighbors during COVID-19 outbreak.Despite rapidly growing numbers of cases of COVID-19 and deaths in Haiti, where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner, many people still refuse to believe the virus is here. Yet...
Members of Maryknoll Affiliates chapters work globally and locally to make the world a better place.Pope Francis reminds us we are all called to mission. Being a Maryknoll affiliate has given me a way to answer my call. Maryknoll affiliates are lay people whose lives are centered around four...
We’re all in this together. How often have we heard these words during this time when the COVID-19 virus has been ravaging our world! Indeed, the crisis reminds us just how interconnected we are here at home and around the world. We Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers are more aware than ever of our...
Maryknoll missioners in various parts of the world share how they and the people they serve are responding to COVID-19
We are Maryknoll seminarians doing our overseas training program in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Our missionary training went into high gear in March as Bolivia confirmed more and more cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus and international volunteers were called by their organizations to leave the country.
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
"Be Not Afraid: March and Vigil for Human Dignity” expressed support for Annunciation House and...
Pope Francis asks Christ to "roll away" the stone of war in Ukraine, the Holy Land and all the...
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the Easter Sunday readings and recounts how Maryknoll sisters seek the Risen Christ as they pursue justice.
Pope Francis sends a message to El Salvador for Good Friday, urging Salvadorans — and all...
Pope Francis sees the friendship between two fathers who lost children to violence in the Holy...
St. Sabina Catholic Church unveiled a statue of Jesus Christ commemorating Chicago’s victims of gun violence in preparation for Holy Week.
The Catholic community in Jerusalem, led by the courageous Latin patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ushers in Holy Week.
A Maryknoll lay missioner reflects on seasonal rains, suffering and the renewal of life during Holy Week.
To migrants, pope says, “You are not discarded,” and adds, “you form part of the human family and the family of God’s children.”
The Sudan and South Sudan bishops publish a letter warning that the Sudanese people are “on the brink of destitution.”
Church groups decry the Panama’s ban on Doctors Without Borders, a medical organization that provides health care to migrants.
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.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the covenant that we make with God, with each other and with all of nature.
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.
Last Ash Wednesday we wistfully wondered what we might give up for Lent: Movies? Coffee? Dessert?...
My wife Geetha and I met while working in Catholic parish ministries in villages in south India. She is a medical doctor and I have...
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.
On Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, there was a special ceremony for the blessing of the first child of Emmanuel and his wife Angelina at their modest tent home. Emmanuel is a member of our Church choir at our U.N. camp in Malakal, South Sudan. During the celebration, the choir...
U.N. official accuses various countries of alleged human rights abuses under the guise of coronavirus health restrictions. We are seeing a growing threat to human rights norms around the world...
Letters from our readers about past stories that include the example of women, young adults and Maryknoll missioners. Readers’ responses September 2020.
