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.
Young people at World Youth Day encouraged to say "yes" to the Lord's call As the sun rose above a field filled with tents and sleeping bags on the outskirts of Panama City, thousands of young pilgrims from 155 countries woke up ready to praise God at World Youth Day. They had been inspired...
Fleeing gang violence, internally displaced Salvadorans find a temporary safe haven || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds[/googlefont] Nineteen-year-old Pablo has been in what he jokingly calls “this paradise” for 13 months. Together with his father, his...
Sister Jeanne Rancourt answers a call to care for asylum seekers in a U.S. border city The appeal that went out to all congregations of sisters across the United States last fall was urgent. The president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) was pleading for volunteers to come to...
Maryknoll helps Hispanic youth in Texas to serve in mission During a short-term immersion trip to Bolivia organized by Maryknoll last year, Dulce Tovar visited a tutoring program run by Maryknoll Father Paul Sykora for children at high risk in Cochabamba. As she was helping an 8-year-old girl with...
Ryan Thibert, from Canada, takes his permanent oath as a Maryknoll brother Recalling his first visit to the Maryknoll Society campus in Ossining, N.Y., Ryan Thibert says, “I felt I had finally arrived at my home, the place I was called to be.” After eight years of study and service, he will take...
Our theme, “Love in Action,” referenced Pope Francis’ letter Rejoice and Be Glad in which he reminds us we are called to live our lives with love, not necessarily through extraordinary deeds but through everyday acts of kindness. Students were asked to tell a true story of someone sharing God’s...
Maryknoll priest returns to Yucatán, Mexico, to celebrate missioners who served there One balmy evening last November, I walked in liturgical procession behind the panoply of acolytes, readers and a deacon through the arches of the church of San Sebastian in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. As the...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: It all started during World Youth Day week, when Maryknoll Sister Geraldine “Gerri” Brake, who runs Nueva Vida home for the elderly, received a surprise invitation from Panama’s archbishop to be among three people meeting Pope Francis at a morning Mass on Jan. 26. The day...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: Volunteering in El Paso center for refugees reminds a Maryknoll priest of life’s meaning “The chimes of freedom are flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road to flight.” Long before I hit the ground running in a hospitality center for refugees and migrants in El Paso, Texas,...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup d’état in Chile, a new Orbis book highlights the courage of religious who helped the dictatorship’s victims.
Argentinian “slum priests” celebrate Mass after a presidential candidate insulted Pope Francis in loaded political climate.
In his first ever visit to Mongolia, Pope Francis makes mention of the Vatican’s developing relations with other Asian countries.
A Maryknoll sister shares two examples of missioners working to empower girls and people at risk of human trafficking.
Church leaders in the Amazon say they worry that oil drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River will lead to disastrous environmental consequences.
As the ecumenical World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation approaches, held Sept. 1 and beginning the Season of Creation, Pope Francis announces a follow up document to his 2015 Laudato Si’.
Catholic bishops and other religious leaders call for debt relief for African countries, which together bear a burden of over $1.1 trillion in external debt.
A Maryknoll priest reflects on stewardship in this Sunday’s Mass readings in light of his service in Asia.
Pope Francis has written the foreword to the Orbis Books reprint of a book by Dorothy Day, whom he calls ‘a great witness to faith, hope and charity in the 20th century,’
Pope Francis reflects on Our Lady of Guadalupe and the importance of respect for cultural roots in his weekly general audience.
After a mob attacked Christian churches, claiming blasphemy against the Quran, leaders call for respect for Pakistan’s religious minorities.
The Central American University, known as the UCA, is the latest of over two dozen educational institutions to be closed by the repressive Ortega regime.
A Maryknoll sister who serves in Tanzania reflects on the Mass readings that challenge our preconceived ideas about the “other.”
Dozens of priests and lay workers will be trained to monitor the six-month ceasefire between government troops and a rebel guerrilla faction.
Even when we feel far from God, God never leaves us When inviting people to come to church,...
Partner in Mission dedicates himself to propagating the Golden Rule My friend Ray Kalainikas has a banner hanging in front of his house...
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.
During my first month in Shariatpur town in Bangladesh, where I visit the sick poor and often accompany them to the hospital, a woman gently turned down my invitation to take her, her husband and their disabled son to a Dhaka hospital. I later returned to see them and...
A mix of push and pull factors force people to migrate There are about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Many of them live in families with mixed immigration status, that is,...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts FAITH NOT FEAR The January/February 2019 Spirit of Mission column, “Faith in time of turmoil,” by Father Joseph R. Veneroso was one of the...
