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.
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.
A Maryknoll parish uses holistic approach to faith and health in Tanzania On the ground floor of the rectory of Transfiguration parish in Mwanza, Tanzania, 2-year-old Jordan, who suffers from cerebral palsy, smiles broadly as he struggles to walk between two low parallel bars. His aunt, Edita,...
Mission Immersion: Mission Trip to Appalachia teaches participants to care for our common home By Matt Gray, photos by Octavio Duran, OFM Welcome to Maryknoll’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Appalachia! That is how our host, Father John Rausch, introduced 11 of us U.S. Catholics to our five-day...
Mission Immersion: Participants on a Maryknoll immersion trip to Bolivia visit ministry that helps indigenous children adapt to city life The sun shines brightly in the dusty Nueva Vera Cruz neighborhood on a mountaintop outside the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia, where hundreds of Quechua and Aymara...
Mission Immersion: Pilgrimage to sites of Central American martyrs moves U.S. deacons and wives to deeper service "I’ve been a deacon for eight years and I think on this trip I’ve found out what being a deacon is all about,” said Joe Peters from Chicopee, Mass. He and his wife Jan along with...
Maryknoll priest has dedicated 50 years to evangelization efforts Father John Cuff’s missionary life officially began with his sailing to his mission with six other Maryknoll priests in 1969. “I remember taking that ship for 25 days without sight of land; it was a rite of baptism,” he recalls. “I...
For the business-minded Chinese, location is everything. As Catholics in the business of evangelization, this fact has not been lost at Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish, where I was pastor for 13 years. Our Lady of Mount Carmel is an inner-city parish located in the middle of Hong Kong Island’s...
Maryknoll lay missioners climb miles to help a widow and her six children Here in Bolivia we enjoy lots of sunshine, but the sun does not shine equally for everyone. Doña Evarista and her husband, Don Sabino, were subsistence potato farmers when we met them at their home in Sachacaymane, an...
Maryknoll sister helps to shed light on human rights violations in Asia One morning, a man wakes up, hugs his children and kisses his wife goodbye before walking to work. But, he does not come back home. His wife calls her husband’s job and hospitals and looks around the city. Finally, the family...
Maryknoll mission promoter has spent her life helping youth discover their missionary vocation || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Giovana Soria [/googlefont] Araceli Guardado’s interest in teaching began when she was 10 years old at the United Nations‘ Mesa Grande refugee camp...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Maryknoll Sister Darlene Jacobs, who worked over 30 years in Tanzania, reflects on mercy and justice in Sunday’s Mass readings.
Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of Kisangani says that over two decades of peacekeeping have not brought the desired result of peace to the Congo.
Theologian Hosffman Ospino offers an in-depth look at trends within the Hispanic Roman Catholic population in the United States and calls for greater appreciation of its numbers and vitality.
A scholar from Yale’s Humanitarian Research Laboratory who has studied the forced deportation of minors from Ukraine to Russia meets with the papal envoy for peace, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi.
During a short trip to Marseille, France, the pontiff urges people to aid humanitarian efforts to ensure the safety of migrants and refugees.
A Maryknoll priest reflects on the parable of the laborers in the vineyard and relates its teachings to his ministry to the sick and dying in El Salvador.
During National Migration Week, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, highlights the need to “address the coercive forces driving people to migrate.”
Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas, says that the Synod can help make local churches more effective in spreading the Gospel.
Numerous Catholic groups were among the estimated 75,000 people who marched to protest fossil fuels before the start of U.N. climate meetings.
A Maryknoll lay missioner reflects on love in the Gospel and relates her journey of sobriety through Alcoholics Anonymous and faith in a Higher Power.
As the death toll rises, due to massive flooding in Libya, Church and world leaders express sorrow and organize humanitarian aid.
After Morocco was devastated by an earthquake on Sept. 8, Church and world leaders offer prayers, condolences and humanitarian assistance.
Deacon Paul Carris of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, says the terrorist attacks both challenged his faith and changed his life.
A Maryknoll lay missioner in El Salvador reflects on confronting sin and repairing relationships with our brothers and sisters.
Priest reflects on how to see the Holy Spirit at work Faced with life-changing decisions,...
Cecil Zamora, a migrant worker in Taiwan, learns to forgive by helping others Cecil Zamora could easily be a bitter person. Born in Cebu...
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.
After eight years in São Paulo, Brazil, our family recently returned to João Pessoa, a coastal city at the most eastern point of the Americas, where we had previously served with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners. In order to reconnect with partners and explore ministry...
A bipartisan bill now before Congress sets out a strategic plan to prevent violence Last June, the Global Peace Index, through which the international Institute for Economics and Peace ranks 163...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts ANOTHER ROOT In your March/April issue of MARYKNOLL magazine, Lynn F. Monahan did a fine job telling us why many immigrants come to this...
