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.
Maryknoll lay missioner learns sign language as he runs a mobile library in El Salvador Returning from home leave in the States to the community of La Esperanza in El Salvador, where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner, I began visiting the 35 families who use our mobile library. One book...
Church’s openness to listen to young people signals they are considered a priority When Pope Francis goes to Panama to celebrate the 34th World Youth Day in January, thousands of young Catholics will be there to praise God with him. This year, the international gathering takes place as the...
Participants in the V National Encuentro ask to be recognized as Church leaders || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Giovana Soria[/googlefont] The V National Encuentro of Hispanic/Latino Ministry not only revived Lily Morales’ faith but empowered her to fight for her dreams and...
College professor shares his views on the Catholic Church and today's young people The present moment is a critical time for young adult Catholics, as we have seen with the Synod on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment. I study Catholic student movements, but I also have a...
Maryknoll Sisters evolve as a multicultural community and microcosm for the world Long before Pope Francis emphasized that we are all sisters and brothers living on the earth, our common home, the Maryknoll Sisters recognized diversity as enriching the human family. In 1914 when Elsie St. Clair...
Educating young people from the traditional Watatulu tribe presents challenges for Maryknoll priest in rural East Africa Yuyu, a tall young woman wearing the traditional dress of the Watatulu people of Tanzania and cradling an infant in her arms, had dreams. A few years ago, Yuyu was living...
Chab Dai Coalition in Cambodia brings groups together to end human trafficking Lita carefully traces daisies on the cake she is preparing for her client in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is grateful for the work she has and the skill she has gained as a pastry chef. But her life has not been one of all...
Maryknoll ministry for Catholic singles encourages fellowship—and Catholic marriages Jerry Chen, a young Catholic living in Taipei, says finding Catholic friends in Taiwan is hard because Catholics comprise less than 1.5 percent of his country’s population. Finding a Catholic significant other is...
Witnesses are moved by the suffering of separated migrants and their children “Please, my son needs me! I have never been separated from him. I beg you to help me. I’m not lying. I am here because of fear. I am desperate. I can’t go back to my country because my son and I are in danger.” This is...
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.
Christmas calls us to celebrate God at work in everyday events of human life A young woman, Mary,...
Ugandan man accompanies Maryknoll Father John Barth to serve South Sudanese refugees who have fled civil war My name is Richard Robert...
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.
In Venezuela, I lived in barrio Nueva Tacagua. One of my neighbors was an elderly woman named America Lopez, who lived in a one-room shack with her daughter and three grandchildren. People called America La Loca, “the crazy one,” because she often acted out of touch...
Maryknoll missioners urge people of faith to ask if the new trade agreement will improve life for all From Cambodia to El Salvador, Bangladesh to Tanzania, Maryknoll missioners accompany people and...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts REMEMBERING ROMERO Let us thank Octavio Duran, OFM, for his wonderful article in the September/October 2018 issue of Maryknoll on Saint Oscar...
