This issue of Maryknoll magazine presents stories about immigration and the Maryknoll missioners who help migrants, refugees, and displaced people both in the United States and abroad.
Be inspired by a photo meditation on Mother Cabrini. Learn about the compassion of a Maryknoll Sister who serves children of migrant families affected by mass deportations in Florida. Read about the journey of an undocumented migrant who became a permanent deacon and now leads Maryknoll immersion trips back to his home 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 lay missioner works with Solidarity Teacher Training College in South Sudan || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds[/googlefont] Gabe Hurrish has served with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners in the war-torn East African nation of South Sudan for less...
Cause for Sainthood for Maryknoll cofounder Father Thomas F. Price advances to Rome One hundred years ago, in a hospital in Hong Kong, Maryknoll Father Thomas Frederick Price went to his final reward. He had journeyed to China only a year earlier with three young priests to begin...
Maryknoll affiliate provides medical care to children with disabilities at home and overseas In a bright examination room with a smiling orange octopus painted on the wall, a boy named Omarlin, who suffers from cerebral palsy, bangs violently against the back of his wheelchair. Dr. Ann Carr...
Hispanic Catholics already taking action steps inspired by the V National Encuentro || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Silvio Cuéllar [/googlefont] The fruits of the V National Encuentro of Hispanic/Latino Ministry, a multiyear process of pastoral discernment that led to a...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
The Holy Spirit can lead humanity from chaos to harmony, teaches Pope Francis in the first talk of a series on the Holy Spirit.
Caritas Australia is mobilizing relief efforts to assist the survivors of a landslide that is feared to have taken 2,000 lives in a remote rural area.
A Maryknoll sister in Brazil reflects on the readings for the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity in the context of holistic creation spirituality.
Pope Francis denounces the Texas attorney general’s lawsuit against Annunciation House, an organization that serves migrants.
In his weekly general audience Wednesday, May 22, Pope Francis teaches on the importance of humility in the spiritual life of Christians.
With weeks of storms and flooding devastating entire communities, Catholics in Brazil mobilize relief efforts for the displaced.
Launched from various starting points, four pilgrimages set out at Pentecost, to converge at the National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21.
Latin patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa travels to Gaza for the first time since the conflict broke out last October.
Catholic immigration experts worry that a proposed rule change to “credible fear” protocols will deter — and even endanger — asylum seekers.
The doctrine of the Ascension teaches us that all people are invited to the path to heaven, with Jesus leading the way, said Pope Francis.
Maryknoll Sister Darleen Jacobs reflects on the importance of unity in the Sunday Mass readings and recalls 40 years of mission in Tanzania.
The Holy Year, which will begin Dec. 24, is a time to perform Works of Mercy and to strengthen hope for Christians, especially young people.
Caritas Poland says Israel’s escalation in Rafah is worsening the humanitarian crisis for people in Gaza caught in the crossfire.
Holocaust survivor Alex Rosin offers his testimony of being hidden by a Polish Catholic family and shares his pain over the current conflict.
Priest reflects on Jesus visiting the home of his good friends, Mary and Martha, in Bethany ||...
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.
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...
