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.
Indigenous activist murdered in Honduras defending the environment and human rights On March 5, two days after environmentalist and indigenous leader Berta Cáceres was murdered, thousands of her supporters clogged the streets of La Esperanza, Honduras, carrying her coffin for burial and shouting...
A Maryknoll Affiliate and members of her parish expand their vision by helping refugees find a home in North Carolina Think globally and act locally is a mantra often repeated by the Maryknoll Affiliates—people who identify with Maryknoll’s vision, spirit and charism but remain active in their...
Immigrant family gives Pope Francis copy of Orbis book || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Deirdre Cornell[/googlefont] One frigid December morning six years ago, my husband and I were awakened by a phone call. With panic in her voice, a friend from our parish told us that an...
Maryknoll Sister joins the thousands on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to worship together with Pope Francis || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Lelia Mattingly, M.M.[/googlefont] When Pope Francis arrived in Juárez, Mexico, on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, to celebrate Mass...
Despite hardships and earthquake, a young woman in Nepal hopes for the future || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Pradeep Singh[/googlefont] Kabita Rai was less than a year old when her parents brought her to Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, fleeing the threat of Maoist guerrillas...
Maryknoll Sister treats the hands and health of migrant farmworkers in Pennsylvania || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M.[/googlefont] She remembers one black grandmother who, despite oral cancer, wouldn’t keep her appointment to see a specialist if it meant...
In honor of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, which Pope Francis has declared from Dec. 8, 2015 to Nov. 20, 2016, we asked students to share a real-life story of mercy that has inspired them and to tell what this story teaches them about the need for mercy today. We received 6,452 essays from students...
Driving across the grasslands to a distant chapel to celebrate Easter during the rainy season in Tanzania. Halfway through a swampy plain the mud becomes so thick I abandon my truck and walk the last mile and a half ankle-deep in mud to arrive wet, dirty and tired. The people run toward me...
A Maryknoll lay missioner receives inspiration from a Tanzanian doctor It was early one morning here in Mwanza, in northwest Tanzania. Dr. Leonard Washington had arranged to meet me at Mwanza’s Bugando Hospital. He soon was inspecting the two areas of my leg that had become infected after a fall....
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Religious leaders in South Sudan start a peace campaign to ensure refugees can return to a peaceful environment.
Bishop Samson Shukardin of Hyderabad has called for help for thousands affected by floods that have devastated many areas of Pakistan.
“Be humble,” says a recently-ordained Maryknoll priest about approaching other cultures as he reflects on the Sunday Mass readings for the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time.
Students from Uvalde, Texas, where a school shooting took place, are helped by Catholic Extension to attend Sacred Heart Catholic School.
Pope Francis concludes his catechesis on old age, teaching that the wisdom of elders is a blessing for both young and old.
A report from the Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council shows that 2021 was a deadly...
As Pope Francis calls for dialogue, international Church leaders and Nicaraguan Catholics speak out against the arrest of Bishop Álvarez.
A Maryknoll affiliate who has worked 40 years in public education reflects on “the narrow gate” in the Mass readings for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Two families who long for reunification offer their stories on behalf of countless others separated by the U.S./Mexico border.
Pope Francis draws global attention to Somalia, where one million displaced people face famine and disease provoked by drought.
Bianca Jagger, a human rights advocate, joins other Nicaraguans to call for the release of Bishop José Álvarez, who is under house arrest.
Homeland Security announces the end of the Trump-era policy known as “Remain in Mexico” that kept...
By Sister Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. Sunday, August 14, 2022 Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10; Psalms 40:2, 3,...
Bishops in Africa express “pain” at seeing young people migrate to lives of uncertainty.
The fourth in our 2016 spirituality series celebrating the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Before coming to...
As National Bequest Representative for the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, I have been in contact with Carol Cella for many years. Finally...
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.
For years, Don Agustin Lazarte was an itinerant catechist in our St. Francis Xavier parish in the village of Monte Verde, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He would spend a week or a month in a village, helping with ceremonies in the chapel, visiting the country schools and...
Maryknoll missioners In Cambodia and Myanmar are seeing the return of fishermen who have been rescued from slave-like working conditions on Thai fishing boats in the seas off Indonesia. Recruited by...
GO FOR IT! I was a seminarian and a priest in the diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., with Father Michael Bassano, and to see him in the pages of MARYKNOLL magazine is always a delight. He is the same...
