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 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...
For the business-minded Chinese, location is everything. As Catholics in the business of evangelization, this fact has not been lost at Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish, where I was pastor for 13 years. Our Lady of Mount Carmel is an inner-city parish located in the middle of Hong Kong Island’s...
Maryknoll lay missioners climb miles to help a widow and her six children Here in Bolivia we enjoy lots of sunshine, but the sun does not shine equally for everyone. Doña Evarista and her husband, Don Sabino, were subsistence potato farmers when we met them at their home in Sachacaymane, an...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Local church leaders call for more support for Indigenous people after the latest collapse of an illegal gold mine in Venezuela
Christians today, like Jesus’ disciples 2,000 years ago, need to see how Christ encountered people and welcomed them in their fragility.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Peg Vámosy reflects on the upcoming Mass readings, ecological sin and her ministry in El Salvador.
Experts point to continuing scandal of child labor, and in some states, setbacks as companies are caught employing migrant children.
Still recovering from flulike symptoms, Pope Francis attended the audience but had an aide read his message on pride and envy.
Curas villeros, who minister in shantytowns, say the austerity measures imposed by President Javier Milei are “a step backward.”
Burkina Faso’s bishop of the Diocese of Dori reports 15 worshipers died in an attack on a Catholic Church during Sunday Mass.
Maryknoll Father Joseph Healey, who served for five decades in East Africa, relates how young Catholics care for creation in Kenya by planting trees.
Amid repression from the government, Russian Catholics commemorate the death of political dissident Alexei Navalny who died in prison.
Retired Archbishop Isichenko of Ukraine speaks out on Russian invasion during a visit to the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Maryknoll Father Joseph Healey, who worked with Small Christian Communities in Africa, says they can help revive the Church in the U.S.
By Helen Graham, M.M. First Sunday of Lent Sunday, February 18, 2024Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7 | Rom 5:12-19...
Nigerian Mass attendance is one of the highest in the world in a country where thousands of Christians have been targeted and killed in recent years.
As Catholics everywhere receive ashes and Lent begins, a returned Maryknoll lay mission reflects on the Mass readings.
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...
