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.
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.
A Maryknoll lay missioner becomes a lawyer to address the global issues of female incarceration || By Heidi Cerneka I have worked for over 20 years with women in prison, mostly in Brazil. I have visited women’s prisons in Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Thailand, Cameroon, the United States,...
A Maryknoll sister addresses the needs of migrant farmworkers’ children in southwest Florida Maryknoll Sister Catherine DeVito recalls trying to comfort a 5-year-old girl with anxiety, who feared her mother would be taken away. Sadly, says the missioner, this child is not unique among those who...
A California parish opens its doors to welcome and aid homeless people. || By Giovana Soria As Jose Villalobos waited for assistance outside Dolores Mission parish in Los Angeles, Calif., he was listening to sports on a radio he held on his shoulder. He said he would rather listen to sports than...
Program started by a Maryknoll priest seeks to counter gang violence Before the current wave of gang violence began driving hundreds of thousands of people, mostly youths and mothers with children, from Central America in search of peace and refuge, a courageous Maryknoll priest from Connecticut...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned, and Haiti stands on the brink of civil war, according to Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor of Port-au-Prince, president of the Haitian bishops’ conference.
The Annunciation House network of migrant hospitality centers is defended from the state attorney general and a harassment campaign.
The abduction of 300 schoolchildren has left Church leaders and parents “speechless,” even in a country where kidnapping is frequent.
Citing one of the most beloved verses of the New Testament, Pope Francis calls on Christians to pray for the grace to see others as Jesus sees them — through the eyes of mercy.
Reflecting on the upcoming Sunday Mass readings, Maryknoll Father Joseph Thaler says we must share God’s awesome love with each other.
As Haiti descends into chaos, remarkable stories emerge of two Catholic clergy’s commitment to the Haitian people.
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.
Holy people like Mother Teresa continued serving despite their doubts || By Joseph R. Veneroso,...
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...
