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.
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,...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
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.
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.
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...
