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.
South Sudanese tell of flight from civil war to refugee settlement and faith in the future. Eugene Obwoya says he grew old in a refugee camp. The agronomist and Catholic catechist says he has fled fighting in his native South Sudan three times in his life, all three times to neighboring Uganda....
A clan leader of South Sudanese refugees sets an example for peacebuilding Two years after gaining independence as a new nation in 2011, South Sudan once again slipped into civil war, the third time in more than 60 years. This time the conflict is between the country’s two largest ethnic...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
The rocket attack at a Gaza hospital caused the deaths of hundreds of civilians, some who were seeking shelter.
On World Food Day, held on Oct. 16 and sponsored by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Pope Francis called for water to be protected and shared among the world’s people.
Pope Francis has called upon the global community to fast and pray for peace in the Middle East tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 17.
Reflecting on the upcoming Mass readings and the Synod on Synodality taking place in Rome, a Maryknoll priest with decades of experience in Africa echoes Pope Francis’ saying, “The Church is for everyone.”
Delegates in Rome at the Synod on Synodality opened the session this morning with a prayer for peace led by Catholic leaders from countries in conflict, including Israel and Palestine.
Pope Francis expressed sorrow for the terrorist acts of Hamas and called for the release of Israeli hostages, while at the same time stating concern for the residents of Gaza.
Church leaders initiate a nationwide pastoral program to serve Brazil’s 60 million people living in slums.
Costa Rica’s federal government declares a state of emergency as tensions rise due to unprecedented numbers of migrants transiting through the Central American country.
A Maryknoll affiliate considers on what it means to repair the world in the Kingdom of God as she reflects on the Sunday Mass readings.
In a follow up to his 2015 encyclical, Pope Francis today released Laudate Deum, an exhortation that addresses the worsening of climate change.
Participants serving as delegates at the Synod on Synodality, being held in Rome from Oct. 4-29, discuss their hopes and expectations.
Maryknoll Sister Darlene Jacobs, who worked over 30 years in Tanzania, reflects on mercy and justice in Sunday’s Mass readings.
Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of Kisangani says that over two decades of peacekeeping have not brought the desired result of peace to the Congo.
Theologian Hosffman Ospino offers an in-depth look at trends within the Hispanic Roman Catholic population in the United States and calls for greater appreciation of its numbers and vitality.
Holy people like Mother Teresa continued serving despite their doubts || By Joseph R. Veneroso,...
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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...
