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.
Catholic Hispanic young adults mentor youth on the South Side of Chicago On a Friday night, a basement on the South Side of Chicago fills up with a dozen teenagers. As people start to pray the rosary in front of a makeshift shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the teens playing soccer outside come...
Partner organizations Solidarity Bridge and Puente de Solidaridad bring medical help to the neediest Bolivians For Ariane Castro of Cochabamba, Bolivia, being the mother of two babies is the greatest gift, but the journey of this family did not start off smoothly. When her daughter Valeria...
Two Maryknoll sisters empower and feel empowered helping women victims of domestic violence in Japan By David R. Aquije When police responded to an emergency at Darna’s house, the Filipino immigrant was black and blue from a beating by her Japanese husband, says Maryknoll Sister Margaret Lacson,...
Maryknoll Mission Institute celebrates its golden jubilee It was the weekend of Pentecost and the joy of the Holy Spirit seemed to fill the air last June at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, N.Y. There, people from all over the world were gathering to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the...
Five new Maryknollers sent to overseas mission Accompanied by drums and the joyous singing of a Swahili song, five new Maryknoll missioners danced their way out of the Maryknoll Sisters’ Annunciation Chapel. As Kenyan and Tanzanian seminarians and sisters led the drumming, the ululating and the...
A senior priest is committed to forming missionary disciples of Jesus Christ When Maryknoll Father Thomas Henehan visited his old neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, 15 years after leaving the country, he heard “Vecino Tomás!” He could not help but smile. “In Chile, the title of vecino (neighbor) is...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: Vatican releases apostolic exhortation 'Querida Amazonia' (Beloved Amazonia in English). By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said he dreams of an Amazon region where the rights of the poor and indigenous are respected, local cultures are...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: As world remembers the U.S.-born missioner, landless defenders in the Amazon region of Brazil are still threatened. By Lise Alves, Catholic News Service SAO PAULO (CNS) -- Feb. 12 was the 15th anniversary of Sister Dorothy Stang's assassination in the Amazon region of Brazil. The...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: A Vatican conference discussed the gifts elderly Catholics bring to the church, as well as their special needs. VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Old age "is not a disease, it's a privilege," and Catholic dioceses and parishes miss a huge and growing resource if they ignore their senior...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Two men from Kenya ordained Maryknoll priests at the mission Society’s Our Lady Queen of Apostles Chapel in Westchester County, New York.
Maryknoll Father Dennis Moorman, who serves in Brazil, offers a reflection on the Sunday readings and the call to become a synodal Church.
An encounter with migrants is an occasion of salvation because Jesus is present in our sister or brother in need of help, the pope says.
Catholic prelates send greetings to President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to be elected to the top post of Mexico.
In the town of Sumpul, an annual event brings together generations to commemorate a massacre, in the hope that atrocities never happen again.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on Corpus Christi in the context of a mission of love to serve the world’s poor and abandoned.
The relief agency has been unable to deliver humanitarian aid to the southern area of the Gaza Strip since May 6, says its country director.
The Holy Spirit can lead humanity from chaos to harmony, teaches Pope Francis in the first talk of a series on the Holy Spirit.
Caritas Australia is mobilizing relief efforts to assist the survivors of a landslide that is feared to have taken 2,000 lives in a remote rural area.
A Maryknoll sister in Brazil reflects on the readings for the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity in the context of holistic creation spirituality.
Pope Francis denounces the Texas attorney general’s lawsuit against Annunciation House, an organization that serves migrants.
In his weekly general audience Wednesday, May 22, Pope Francis teaches on the importance of humility in the spiritual life of Christians.
With weeks of storms and flooding devastating entire communities, Catholics in Brazil mobilize relief efforts for the displaced.
Launched from various starting points, four pilgrimages set out at Pentecost, to converge at the National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21.
Just before starting Mass for the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (a.k.a. New Year’s Day), I gave...
Mother and daughter are missioners to other migrants in Japan || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By David R. Aquije...
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.
I walked the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday with prisoners at one of the men’s prisons in Lima, Peru, where I work. In the procession the prisoners carried a heavy cross on their shoulders as they walked slowly in silence. As I walked along with them, under the...
Growing inequality in many countries is leading to protests around the world Last year, a wave of protests spread across the world—from Latin America to the Middle East to Asia. Underlying many of...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts Editor’s note: This issue’s Readers’ Responses column is devoted to reactions to a letter in our November/December 2019 issue criticizing...
