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.
Maryknoll priest recalls the heroes he met as a first responder on Sept. 11, 2001 “How could this happen?” Those words rang out all around me—at Transfiguration Church, where I serve in New York City, and throughout the streets of Lower Manhattan. It was Sept. 11, 2001. No one could comprehend the...
A Maryknoll Lay Missioners veteran marks 40 years of ministry As the Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ longest serving missioner, Elizabeth Mach has had a powerful impact on tens of thousands of lives by answering God’s call to service. Celebrating her 40th anniversary as a missioner this year, the Pine...
A medical doctor from Denmark shares her gifts as a Maryknoll affiliate in Africa As the volunteer staff doctor at Rays of Hope Hospice in Jinja, Uganda, I was in a quandary on a recent Monday morning. We had six cancer patients needing medical treatment at the national hospital in the capital of...
Maryknoll Brother recounts his missionary life as he prays for vocations Maryknoll Brother Andrew Marsolek is thrilled to invite me to his small room at the Maryknoll Society’s headquarters to show me some of his most prized possessions: fishing rods, antlers hanging on the wall of deer he hunted...
Maryknoll project celebrates 25 years of mentoring Chinese Church leaders As a spiritual director in China, Father Joseph Su used to tell people what to do to be a saint. “Now,” he says. “I will accept them as persons, accompany them and let God lead them.” That new approach to his ministry, he...
Raging fire cannot destroy the new lives being built by a Maryknoll Sisters’ project in Cambodia. Earlier this year Maryknoll Sister Mary Little proudly walked me through the neighborhood of Chak Angre in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, to the new pre-school the Maryknoll Sisters had opened...
Mentally ill in Southeast Asian nation shackled and caged Kong Chhoeung, 53, has been chained to his bed of bamboo slats for 13 years in the Treng Troyeng village of Cambodia. Gaunt and weak with a haunted face, he is shackled at the left ankle and never gets to walk because the chain is too...
Restorative justice process enables offenders and their victims to heal In one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in São Paulo, Brazil, Raquel (not her real name), a teacher, was the victim of an armed assault and carjacking. After filing a police report, she heard that the adolescent...
Oklahoma City Archdiocese pursues cause of sainthood for martyred native son Father Stanley Rother Thirty-five years ago this July 28, three men slipped into the rectory of Santiago Apóstol (St. James the Apostle) parish in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, at 1:30 in the morning. Clearly familiar with...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
U.S. bishops decry sending migrants from the border to other parts of the States in acts of political theater, with one saying this “offends God.”
Sent by Pope Francis, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski delivers aid under gunfire and prays at a burial site for people killed in the Russian invasion.
Death of a man who was thought to be the last of his tribe in the Amazon basin raises concerns about disappearance of Indigenous cultures.
A Maryknoll lay missioner in Brazil reflects on the Mass readings for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time and asks, “Are we good stewards?”
Pope Francis addresses leaders of world and traditional religions in Kazakhstan, calls for an end to fundamentalism, violence and extremism.
The intervention of the international community is needed as about 7.1 million people, half of them children, need emergency aid to survive famine caused by draught
Church and international leaders cite reports of Ukrainians, including children, being subjected to mass deportations.
Comboni Sister Maria De Coppi, a missioner with six decades of services in Mozambique, was killed...
A staff member of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns recalls violence in Guatemala as he explores the theme of mercy in the Mass readings for 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno, a chaplain who gave his life for others, is honored in memorial Masses in New York and Washington, D.C.
Continuing his series on discernment, Pope Francis teaches that God often reaches out to us through the unexpected events in our lives.
Local pastoral leaders in the U.S. share how their parishes are celebrating the Season of Creation, observed Sept. 1 to Oct. 4.
A Maryknoll lay missioner reflects on the Mass readings for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time and the need to continually discern God’s call.
In a new series, on discernment, Pope Francis teaches that people have the choice to grow a “magnificent garden” or make a “desert of death.”
The fifth in our 2016 spirituality series celebrating the Jubilee Year of Mercy The Aymara people...
From the time she was a young girl in St. James Parish in Dallas, Texas, Therese Caffey wanted to be a missionary. “When I was in the...
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, November & December 2016 I first learned of the concept of accompaniment, of “walking with the people,” from the Maryknoll Sisters. This, I thought, is the ministry to which I am being called here in Nicaragua. Initially, my walk was with the...
In 2015 there were 36.7 million people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Over three decades, more than 25 million people have died of AIDS worldwide. Now there are finally signs of hope...
CHAINED LIKE ANIMALS The story and pictures of the mentally ill men in Cambodia in the July/August issue of Maryknoll magazine were disturbing. Although Cambodia may be an underdeveloped country, to...
