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-supported organization in southern Andes receives human rights award for defending indigenous peoples For over a decade, the nonprofit organization Human Rights and Environment (known by its Spanish acronym DHUMA) has combined education and legal aid to defend the rights of Quechua and...
Congress in Bolivia rekindles the flame of missionary discipleship from Canada to Chile Father Alexi Tovar traveled 12 days to get to the Fifth American Missionary Congress (V CAM), in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, from July 10 to 15, 2018. With a little financial help from friends overseas,...
Maryknoll missioners recall deceased colleague Mary Among the many gifts Mary D’Arcy shared with her beloved Maryknoll family was her remarkable ability to be present. “When Mary sat down with you, it was as if you were the only person she had ever worked with, or even, the only one in the world!”...
Please pray for our Maryknoll missioners who died during the past year. Sister Elizabeth Burns Father Bernard P. Byrne Father George G. Cotter Brother Duane T. Crockett Father Gerald J. Farrell Sister Eileen Franz Sister Rosemary Garrity Father John Geitner Father Sigmund S. Jamroz Father Walter...
The Maryknoll Society celebrates a century of going forth in mission When Maryknoll priests and brothers mark the 100th anniversary of their first mission sending on September 7, one missioner in particular will be basking in the joy of this milestone: Father Lawrence Schanberger. “The...
A Franciscan brother recalls his time and work with the living saint. On March 24, 1980, we Salvadorans wept when a killer’s bullet silenced the voice of the voiceless, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, head of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, El Salvador. We will cry again on Oct. 14, 2018,...
Sisters from Peru, East Timor, South Korea and the Philippines make final vows Four young women began their mission journeys in four different countries of the world. They had never met each other before they gathered at Maryknoll, N.Y., but the same Spirit moved each one with the strong...
Maryknoll priest promotes clean water and organic farming in Guatemala Story and photos by Sean Sprague Maryknoll Father Edward Custer drives a dozen youth from San Juan Apostol parish in El Remate, Petén, Guatemala, in his pick-up truck and heads to nearby Lake Macanche. Parishioner Alejandro...
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,...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
After a 20-year-old gunman opened fire on Former President Trump during a rally, killing a...
By Janet S. Hockman, M.M. Sunday, July 14, 2024 Am 7:12-15, Eph. 1:3-14, Mk 6:7-13 On a wall in...
On July 9, the Vatican released the working document for the upcoming Synod session in October,...
As 9 million people are displaced by conflict, Sudanese bishops urge help for 25 million people at risk in the world’s largest hunger crisis.
Israeli armed forces killed four at a Catholic school, Holy Family School, where hundreds of civilians seek shelter since the war broke out.
In an address given in Trieste, Italy, Pope Francis spoke about characteristics of a true democracy, which he said is in “crisis” worldwide.
A Mayknoll lay missioner reflects on the Sunday readings and her ministry in Tanzania with children and adults with HIV — “prophets.”
A judge of the District Court of El Paso found that the Texas attorney general’s suit against the nonprofit Annunciation House violates religious freedom laws.
During his Sunday Angelus address the day after the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Pope Francis said that all people are invited to heaven.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the readings for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, World Refugees Day and the Bark of Pete.
Jerome Wesevich, a lawyer for Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, says the Texas attorney general's attempt...
Pope Francis is the first pontiff to attended the annual G7 summit, which brings the leaders of...
By Anna Johnson, MKLM Sunday, June 16, 2024Ez 17:22-24 | 2 Cor 5:6-10 | Mk 4:26-34 This week’s...
The Dorothy Day Guild presents the group’s Peacemaker Award to Pax Christi USA for its commitment to the building a world without conflict.
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...
