This issue of Maryknoll magazine presents stories about immigration and the Maryknoll missioners who help migrants, refugees, and displaced people both in the United States and abroad.
Be inspired by a photo meditation on Mother Cabrini. Learn about the compassion of a Maryknoll Sister who serves children of migrant families affected by mass deportations in Florida. Read about the journey of an undocumented migrant who became a permanent deacon and now leads Maryknoll immersion trips back to his home 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.
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.
For many countries in Africa, the steps to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic are exacerbating already dire circumstances, and warnings are mounting of a double tragedy: disease and starvation.
Maryknoll sister’s ministry provides compassionate accompaniment to elderly residents in PanamaThe New Life Foundation in Panama is living up to its name even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As this virus swept around the world, Maryknoll Sister Geraldine Brake and her team adapted to...
When the first coronavirus case was reported in Japan last January—the second country to report a case after it appeared in Wuhan, China—the students at Tenshi College in the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido, had already finished their exams. There were only a few students around the campus where Maryknoll Father Kenneth Sleyman has been teaching for 19 years.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Heidi Cerneka is sounding the alarm about the life-threatening consequences of immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic.
No vaccine. No antibiotics for treatment. Worldwide control efforts including isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants and limitations of public gatherings. These words, so resonant today in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, were used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to describe the influenza pandemic that ravaged the world more than a century ago.
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Pope Francis announces his fourth encyclical, ‘Dilexit Nos,’ a teaching on the Sacred Heart of Jesus for a world that has ‘lost its heart.’
Father Marcelo Pérez of the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, was murdered as he left church after saying Sunday Mass.
Maryknoll Father James Kroeger recounts a mission experience in the Philippines in the context of World Mission Sunday.
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna travels to Russia in efforts to restore peace and recover more than 19,000 deported Ukrainian children.
Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, says the choice of Nihon Hidankyo for a Nobel award serves as a reminder of the perils of nuclear war.
On the anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s opening, Pope Francis pauses the Synod of Bishops to pray for ecumenism with leaders of other faiths.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, who serves the largest expatriate Haitian community in the United States, says Haiti has yet to ‘touch bottom.’
Maryknoll Father Joseph Fedora, who serves in Peru, reflects on Jesus’ invitation to the rich young man — and the eye of a needle — in this Sunday’s Gospel.
Lebanese religious leaders and international aid workers decry Israeli attacks that have plunged the population into a humanitarian crisis.
Pope Francis says the Holy Spirit ensures “the unity of the Church” by showing that differences can remain as long as we are united in faith.
Pope Francis is to set to raise his record for most cardinals who would be eligible to enter a conclave to elect a pope.
‘I am with you,’ wrote Pope Francis to the people of the Middle East, in a letter shared Oct. 7, the anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war.
Maryknoll Sister Rebecca Nyaki reflects on the Sunday Mass readings and the role of justice in mission and in the Scriptures.
Maryknoll Father Douglas May relates how the communities he serves in Asheville have been affected by Hurricane Helene.
Last Ash Wednesday we wistfully wondered what we might give up for Lent: Movies? Coffee? Dessert?...
Rusty, a rescue dog, joins his owner, Terry Brown, in visiting the sick and dying Terry Brown says...
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.
The idea of making protective masks during the COVID-19 pandemic started in our Maryknoll lay missioner house here in Haiti, but we had no big plans in place. Then our Religious of Jesus and Mary friends offered us a sewing machine. Another friend, Geri Lanham, said...
Debt relief campaign seeks to help impoverished countries struggling with COVID-19 pandemic avert financial ruin As the dire economic consequences of COVID-19 have emerged, religious and...
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