Cover Spring 2026

Maryknoll Magazine Spring 2026

In this issue of Maryknoll, we examine how cuts to U.S. foreign aid have impacted a major AIDS relief program launched decades ago in Kenya by Maryknoll missioners, while in another article, we visit an AIDS hospice started by Maryknoll sisters that provides care and shelter to patients in Guatemala.

We continue our coverage of immigration with a look at the Church’s clear opposition to mass deportation and the mistreatment of migrants. We meet the latest group of Maryknoll lay missioners, accompany young adults on a pilgrimage to Rome, and share other mission stories from around the world.

FEATURED STORIES

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.

The college campus: new mission territory

The college campus: new mission territory

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...

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Maryknoll Sisters embracing all people

Maryknoll Sisters embracing all people

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...

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Watatulu dreams in Tanzania

Watatulu dreams in Tanzania

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...

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From caterpillar to butterfly in Cambodia

From caterpillar to butterfly in Cambodia

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...

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Fostering friendship and love in Taiwan

Fostering friendship and love in Taiwan

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...

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Tears of a mother on the U.S.-Mexico border

Tears of a mother on the U.S.-Mexico border

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...

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Jesus, a refugee like South Sudanese in Uganda

Jesus, a refugee like South Sudanese in Uganda

A Salesian priest sees the plight of Jesus, Mary and Joseph reflected in South Sudanese refugees in Uganda today Christmas has taken on a deeper meaning for me this year since I began serving as chaplain for refugees in the Archdiocese of Gulu in northern Uganda. I minister to more than 36,000...

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Drawing on the Holy Spirit in fighting AIDS in Nairobi

Drawing on the Holy Spirit in fighting AIDS in Nairobi

Maryknoll-founded program relies on faith for success of HIV care and treatment. || by Lynn F. Monahan, photos by Sean Sprague The alley to Anne Ndungu’s tiny home is a narrow, rock-strewn dirt gully between identical buildings of dusty sheets of corrugated metal, the standard building material...

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Giving birth to Jesus in Mombasa

Giving birth to Jesus in Mombasa

A Maryknoll lay missioner and community health volunteers serve people with HIV in Kenya slum. || Story and photos by Sean Sprague Coralis Salvador quotes part of a homily a Kenyan priest gave many years ago: “We are the body of Mary and we give birth to Jesus … not by words but by how we relate...

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NEWS

Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.

PHOTO MEDITATION

Spirituality

Mission in Latin America

MISSIONER TALES

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.

Missioner Tales

Missioner Tales

When I first arrived in Nairobi and was trying to learn how to navigate this capital city of Kenya, I would walk through Kibera, a huge informal settlement—or slum—with a Kenyan friend, Patrick. A member of the Christian Life Community movement, Patrick does volunteer...

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ORBIS BOOKS SPOTLIGHT

World Watch

A U.N. framework for migration

A U.N. framework for migration

World leaders slated to adopt a U.N. agreement on protection of migrants as well as refugees Leaders from more than 190 countries are scheduled to adopt the “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and...

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Readers’ Responses

CENTERSPREAD

Centerspread Spring 2026