Cover Spring 2026

Maryknoll Magazine Spring 2026

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.

FEATURED STORIES

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.

Sent to Build Peace

Sent to Build Peace

Eight men and women—singles and couples with children—go forth to help build that world with God’s grace. By Margaret Gaughan, photos by Deborah Northern, MKLM As eight new members of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners (MKLM) embarked on their journeys overseas recently, they were given an awesome...

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Home for the faithful of Ichu

Home for the faithful of Ichu

Maryknoll priest hopes to finish a new church in the mountains of southern Peru. After celebrating morning Masses at two of the five communities he serves as pastor, Maryknoll Father Robert E. Hoffmann stopped by the town of Ichu, located 15 miles south of Puno in the altiplano of Peru. He has...

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Missioners of Today

Missioners of Today

Hispanic youth in Texas are fueled to serve others in mission. When Gabriela Nieto was 6 years old, she arrived with her family in Houston, Texas. She remembers very little about her native country, Mexico, because she grew up and was educated in the United States. During her teenage years, she...

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The tragic plight of the Rohingya

The tragic plight of the Rohingya

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi seems unable to halt 'ethnic cleansing' Rakhine State in western Myanmar is in crisis as thousands of largely stateless Rohingya Muslims are fleeing violence to neighboring Bangladesh, human rights groups say. Some Rohingya are attempting dangerous boat trips to Malaysia...

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The Root of War Is Fear

The Root of War Is Fear

In his new book The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers author and peacemaker Jim Forest draws on his close personal friendship with the famous Trappist monk in the 1960s, to explore Merton’s  lifelong commitment to peace.   In the conclusion, excerpted below, he...

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Mission of Love in Korea

Mission of Love in Korea

Maryknoll priest from West Philadelphia has accompanied the people of Korea his whole priestly life. When newly ordained Father Gerard Hammond arrived by ship in Pusan, South Korea, in 1960, he saw countless North Korean refugees still recovering from the Korean War. “There were thousands of...

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Pilgrim Reflection

Pilgrim Reflection

Reaping The Harvest of Immigration For the children of immigrant families, and especially for those of farm worker families, there are many barriers to higher education. As one of those children, Puja Saha became aware at an early age of the importance of education if she is to have a better...

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Visiting the Aged and Lonely in Anlong Kngan

Visiting the Aged and Lonely in Anlong Kngan

A Maryknoll priest and a lay missioner serve the elderly together in Cambodia. || Story and photos by Sean Sprague San Sophanna sits on the floor, cross-legged weaving a mat out of old rags collected from a recycling center. It takes all day for the 70-year-old Cambodian woman to make the simple...

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NEWS

Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.

Defending Water in the Amazon

Defending Water in the Amazon

Patricia Gualinga, a Kichwa Indigenous leader of the Sarayaku people in Ecuador, was interviewed by Lisa Sullivan of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns during the United Nations Water Conference held in March. Here we share excerpts of their conversation.

Migrant Shelters in Mexico Are Overflowing

Migrant Shelters in Mexico Are Overflowing

With the end of Title 42 and changes in U.S. immigration procedures, shelters for migrants run by the Catholic Church in Mexico City and other places are filled many times over capacity.

PHOTO MEDITATION

Spirituality

Mission in Latin America

MISSIONER TALES

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, March & April 2017

Missioner Tales, March & April 2017

Before Christmas when the readings at Mass are from the prophet Isaiah, the Scriptures came to life for me. “The eyes of the blind will be opened,” Isaiah said. Here in Guatemala, where I serve in mission, Andrea is an old woman whose eyes are so milky white that she...

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ORBIS BOOKS SPOTLIGHT

World Watch

Nonviolence as a style of politics

Nonviolence as a style of politics

Every day, we hear about war, terrorism and social violence, issues that affect us and our brothers and sisters around the world. The problems can seem so complex that they leave us wondering, “What...

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Readers’ Responses

CENTERSPREAD

Centerspread Spring 2026