This Summer 2025 issue of Maryknoll magazine is dedicated to our beloved Pope Francis. Our cover story pays tribute to the pope from Argentina who was a sign of hope and inspiration for the Maryknoll family, the Catholic Church and the world.
While our print magazine went to press before the conclave, our web pages reflect the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first from the United States. The summer issue also includes a statement from Maryknoll’s superior general, addressing current challenges faced by our 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.
A Maryknoll Sister helps HIV-infected mothers and their babies in Myanmar “Come and meet the people and see how they live,” says Sister Mary Grenough, as she guides visitors through the Hlaing Thayar slum in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon. At 83, the Maryknoll Sister from Louisville, Ky., has lost...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
At the U.S./Mexico border, Catholic organizations assist Venezuelans expelled under the controversial public health measure Title 42.
Returned lay missioners Merwyn and Kirstin De Mello will be honored with the Bishop McCarthy Award on World Mission Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022.
A Maryknoll lay missioner serving in Tanzania reflects on cooperation and interdependence in the Mass readings for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai tells the Asian Bishops’ Conferences they should follow the model of CELAM in Latin America.
Now settled in Indiannapolis, Nicaraguan families who fled their country because of repression by Daniel Ortega’s administration speak about their ordeals.
As famine and drought due to climate change devastate communities in poor countries, Catholic Relief Services raises aid and awareness.
DACA continues to be on hold after a recent court ruling, leaving undocumented young people's...
A Maryknoll lay missioner in Brazil who works in a ministry of healing reflects on the Mass readings for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Pastoral projects serve inmates while also protesting dismal conditions and endemic insecurity in mainly for-profit prisons.
Annual conference at Georgetown University draws experts who agree on one thing: the U.S. faces multiple significant immigration challenges.
During his Angelus message, Pope Francis directly implored Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to immediately cease the war against Ukraine.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the abyss between reality and God’s vision of abundant life for us in the Mass readings for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Maryknoll Sister Rose Marie Cecchini has spent 26 years serving in Gallup, New Mexico, such as in a solar energy project for Navajo families.
Having struck the Philippines, where Caritas is leading relief efforts, Typhoon Noru is now headed toward Vietnam.
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...
