This Summer 2025 issue of Maryknoll magazine is dedicated to our beloved Pope Francis. Our cover story pays tribute to the pope from Argentina who was a sign of hope and inspiration for the Maryknoll family, the Catholic Church and the world.
While our print magazine went to press before the conclave, our web pages reflect the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first from the United States. The summer issue also includes a statement from Maryknoll’s superior general, addressing current challenges faced by our 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.
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...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
A Maryknoll affiliate considers on what it means to repair the world in the Kingdom of God as she reflects on the Sunday Mass readings.
In a follow up to his 2015 encyclical, Pope Francis today released Laudate Deum, an exhortation that addresses the worsening of climate change.
Participants serving as delegates at the Synod on Synodality, being held in Rome from Oct. 4-29, discuss their hopes and expectations.
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.
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...
