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.
Sister Mary Ellen Manz remembers the students she taught in the 1980s and 1990s in war-torn southern Sudan. As a teacher in southern Sudan during the 1980s and 1990s, I recall the first time I was writing on the blackboard and turned around to discover my whole class had left. The children could...
Maryknoll priest reflects on Muslim reverence for the Virgin Mary In the city of Zamboanga on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, a Muslim high school student explained to his Jesuit teacher why he had missed class. “Yesterday was the fiesta of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora del Pilar,”...
Hispanic Catholic leaders meet to discuss the present and future of Hispanic ministry in the United States. “I dream of a Church that goes out,” said Pope Francis, and thousands of Catholics are doing just that. They are participating in regional meetings, or encuentros, on the way to the V...
The guitar of a martyred missioner calls others to sing and serve. I first learned of Jean Donovan in 1984, almost four years after she and three other North American churchwomen were murdered in El Salvador by government soldiers. Jean was a lay member of the Diocese of Cleveland mission team....
A Maryknoll sister joins in accompanying women struggling for new life When Iris Ivarra was a minor, she got married and had the first of her four children. “Practically, I played with real babies,” she says. For Ivarra and other young girls in the colonia (neighborhood) of Panfilo Natera in...
Father Hegarty empowers people to live as gifts of God. Gone are the days when Maryknoll Father Frederick Hegarty navigated muddy paths and mountain trails on horseback or bicycle or in a jeep-like vehicle called a Unimog to share the Gospel with farmers in rural Chile. These days, at 91, he gets...
A Maryknoll missioner puts into practice a methodology of forgiveness in Bolivian prisons. The first time Maryknoll Father Juan Zúñiga visited El Abra, a maximum-security prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to begin his pastoral ministry of visiting the prisoners, he was impressed. The facility...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: Members of the Maryknoll family work as one to help the poor in Cambodia Maryknoll missioners have been collaborating among themselves as well as with other like-minded groups around the world for years. Cambodia, where Maryknoll has spent more than 25 years serving the Cambodian...
Visiting Amazonia, Pope Francis upholds the rights of indigenous people. Four years ago, an oil spill fouled the river that was the only source of water for drinking, cooking and bathing in the Kukama Indian village of Cuninico in Peru's Amazon basin. César Mozombite and Flor de María Parana,...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
With conditions deteriorating worldwide, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom names 17 countries of particular concern.
With plans set for World Youth Day to be held Aug. 1-6 in Lisbon, Portugal, Pope Francis asks young people to make the world more humane.
During his visit, Pope Francis calls upon Hungary to open its doors not only to Ukrainians but to all migrants and to others in need.
On the 2023 World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis said that vocations are like a symphony played on diverse instruments in harmony.
A Maryknoll priest discusses Peter’s discourse from this Sunday’s Mass readings in light of his family’s story-telling in Kenya.
Ten years after a Bangladeshi factory complex collapsed, killing 1,134 workers and injuring 2,500 others, perilous labor conditions continue.
Indigenous immigrants from Venezuela, including the Warao, struggle to establish their rights under Brazil’s governmental policies.
Catholic Relief Services helps 100,000 farm families implement sustainable agriculture practices in the region devastated by climate change.
Officials announce that the United States, Colombia and Panama will implement plans to block the Darién Gap as record numbers of migrants risk their lives.
A Maryknoll lay missioner serving in South Sudan reflects on the Mass readings for the Third Sunday of Easter.
Church leaders call for a return to dialogue after fighting in Sudan leaves nearly 200 dead and the country cut off from humanitarian aid.
During his weekly general audience, Pope Francis honors the memory of martyrs and names seven Missionaries of Charity sisters killed in Yemen in 1998 and 2016.
A new report from the Pew Research Center shows steady trends of loss, with young Latinos less likely to identify as Catholic.
Children are working as part of the agricultural labor force, sometimes enduring long hours and grueling conditions.
Peter and Paul let discipleship outshine differences for the good of the Church What do we...
A Tanzanian woman partners with Maryknoll missioners to build a parish team in Mabatini in Mwanza || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant"...
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.
One Sunday returning from celebrating Mass in three different locations in the Diocese of Musoma, Tanzania, I was happy to park my motorcycle. Shortly afterward, however, someone came to report that an elderly woman was gravely ill in her village and asked that I come...
Catholic institutions heeding call to get out of carbon fuels When a group of students at Swarthmore College in Philadelphia took a class trip to the Appalachian Mountains in 2010, they were shocked...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts PRAYER FOR PRIESTS Today I read a beautiful article in Maryknoll magazine (March/April 2018 issue) honoring Harry Florentine. No one can fill...
