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.
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: Maryknoll priest reports on his eye-opening experience with asylum seekers on U.S. border Recently, I was helping at the Catholic Relief Service’s Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, caring for anywhere from 350 to 700 new asylum seekers each day. All are families with...
Father Bill Mullan champions the rights of Mayan people in Guatemala Father Bill Mullan and his young driver pull up in a 4x4 at the dirt-floored wooden chapel of Limon, El Remate, a Mayan village in the Petén region of Guatemala. The Maryknoll missioner from Brooklyn, N.Y., has come to celebrate...
Kenyan Maryknoll seminarian learns "lessons of God" in Bolivia John Siyumbu was 13 years old when he, his two sisters and some 80 other young people received the sacrament of confirmation; and he felt the missionary call of Jesus: “Go out to the whole...
Recalling the gangland barrio from which migrants flee The names of the places jumped out at me as I read articles over the past months about the caravans of migrants walking from Central America to the United States to seek asylum. One of the migrant caravans that include families and...
Former undocumented immigrant helps migrants today in Los Angeles "What are we going to do if one of us doesn’t come home one night?” This was the question Isaac Cuevas remembers his parents discussing at the dinner table when he was a child. “During those years, there were raids at...
Father Kurt Anderson continues Maryknoll tradition in Taiwan For more than 100 years, generations of Maryknoll missioners have gone to the field afar, learned new languages, and connected with people from different cultures while sharing God’s message of mercy. Father Kurt J. Anderson, a...
Newest priests begin language study and ministry in Hong Kong Like other Maryknollers before them, Fathers Peter Latouf and Daniel Kim spent their first year as priests studying the language and culture of the people they serve. “I think the study is paying off,” Father Latouf says right after...
A Maryknoll sister in East Africa works to uplift at-risk students At the Mmazami Primary School outside of Musoma, a city on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, Sister Marion Hughes and a small group of visitors are greeted with a song as they enter a classroom full of...
Thirteen new Maryknoll missioners begin their overseas missions When Verónica Arriagada and her husband José Luís Aguilar told their four adult children of their plans to become Maryknoll lay missioners serving overseas, the response was disbelief. “Our children thought we were a little crazy,”...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
During his Angelus address today, the Feast of the Assumption, Pope Francis calls for peace, especially in Ukraine.
As fires raged in Maui and President Biden called for a state of emergency, Catholic organizations rush to Maui’s aid.
A Maryknoll lay missioner recalls witnessing Jesus’ extended hands during a mission experience in Brazil as she reflects on Sunday’s Mass readings.
International experts on religious freedom and local Church leaders speak out against atrocities against Christians by jihadist extremists.
“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” says Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, Illinois, calling on world leaders to disarm.
Pope Francis celebrated the closing Mass of World Youth Day, telling the 1.5 million young people not to let their “great dreams” be “stopped by fear.”
A Maryknoll priest reflects on the Transfiguration of the Lord in Sunday’s Gospel in light of his lifetime of service in mission.
At a Scholas Occurrentes school and a university, Pope Francis tells students not to hide from messiness and chaos as they recreate society.
A 15 year old from Brazil’s Quilombola communities realizes her dream of attending World Youth Day in Portugal.
Amid scorching heat and rising temperatures around the world, climate activists call for Catholics to take action against the damage of global warming.
During his Angelus message, Pope Francis calls on Russia to allow millions of tons of grain and other crops harvested in Ukraine to be exported across the Black Sea.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on Sunday’s Mass readings and Jesus’ parables about the treasure hidden in a field and the pearl of great price.
The Tekakwitha Conference for Native American Catholics, held in Minnesota July 20 to 23, opened by calling for a halt to gender-based violence.
In his message for this year’s World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, observed July 23, Pope Francis tells young people to look to the elderly for wisdom as they tackle life’s ups and downs.
God is with us in our dangers, dilemmas and crises Unrelenting wave upon wave of sex scandals,...
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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.
When I was living among the Aymara women in the Andes Mountains of Peru, it was not uncommon to see a woman walking along with her hands in constant motion. Under her arm she would have a large ball of newly shorn wool from an alpaca or sheep. In her hands she would...
Catholic Nonviolence Initiative to present document on nonviolence and faith This April, the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative—a global project supported by Pax Christi International, Maryknoll and...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts JOINT EMPATHY I join you in your empathy for refugees. Charity demands a positive response to their plight, and, as you said, it begins with...
