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.
A Maryknoll Sister shares her recent experience volunteering with a peace team among people displaced by violence. I was walking through a refugee camp in Kurdistan, Iraq, when the screams of a little girl gripped me. “I saw the blood of my friends,” she cried in terror. Seeing the red fence...
Maryknoll lay missioners in Brazil share Christ’s mercy with immigrants and refugees I fled Syria two years ago during the midst of the war,” one Syrian refugee wrote. “I lived in Damascus and my house was bombed twice and burned to the ground. All of my family—my parents and siblings—fled to...
A Maryknoll priest serves displaced people at U.N. camp in war-wracked South Sudan || By Michael Bassano, M.M., photos by Paul Jeffrey On the move. These past few months in the U.N. camp have been moments of change and transition. The camp has grown to accommodate 48,000 people, with new additions...
A Kenyan runner is thankful to Maryknoll priest who sees gifts and talents in all young people Father Richard Quinn, a veteran Maryknoll missioner who spent nearly 60 years serving in East Africa, beams with pride when talking about a young Kenyan man he met through his ministry to nurture and...
The call to mission rings out to all people of goodwill. Young people hear it with fresh ears and a desire to begin their lives with a spirit of service. Those entering the second half of their lives hear it through the wisdom gained from their experiences. Single people respond to the call to...
Maryknoll Sister from the Philippines and Tanzanians discover together that mission is about relationships || By Mary Ellen Manz M.M., photos by Nile Sprague Love, welcome, blossom. These three words sum up Maryknoll Sister Genie Natividad’s mission in Mwanza, Tanzania. They are the names of three...
A Maryknoll Sister and her brother, a Maryknoll priest, celebrate lives of service There are lessons that money cannot buy and schools often cannot teach. Maryknoll Sister Elizabeth Erbland and her brother Maryknoll Father Philip Erbland are living testaments to the powerful lessons learned from...
Young Maryknoll priest continues a mission of mercy in a parish founded and nurtured by Maryknoll missioners || By Giovana Soria, photos by Nile Sprague The youngest Maryknoll priest, Father Lam Minh Hua, has taken his first steps as a missioner in the Mabatini settlement in Mwanza, Tanzania,...
Reflection on Pope Francis' whirlwind visit to three U.S. cities As any of the millions of people who turned out to encounter Pope Francis during his recent visit to the United States can attest, it is no task for the faint of heart. Miles-long security checkpoints, hour upon hour of waiting,...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Gangs in Haiti are responsible for nearly four kidnappings a day in 2022 and violence that killed more than 200 and forced 3,000 to flee their homes during July alone.
A Maryknoll lay missioner reflects on Salvadoran crackdown on gangs that sweeps up the righteous along with the wicked.
Bishop critical of the Nicaraguan government of President Daniel Ortega because of its repression is under virtual house arrest.
Reflecting on the Sunday Mass readings, a Maryknoll lay missioner gives witness to the faith of the community where she serves in Haiti.
Peacemaker and activist Tom Cornell, co-founder of Pax Christi USA and the Catholic Peace Fellowship, dies at 88.
The Biden administration plan to fill gaps in the border wall draws rebuke from residents, immigration organizations and political opponents.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges of HIV in many areas, but leaders of the global response to HIV and AIDS who gathered in Montreal for the International AIDS Conference praised faith leaders for their contribution to fighting the four decade-old AIDS pandemic.
As part of a “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada to apologize to First Nations people, Pope Francis prays at a lake known for healing waters.
A Maryknoll sister prioritizes humanity’s kinship over material gain in light of the Mass readings for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Pope Francis travels to Canada to apologize in person, on the land, to First Nations people for the trauma inflicted in residential schools.
Kidnappings and murders of Catholic priests in Nigeria have escalated in recent months as criminals increasingly target communities of faith.
With many parts of the Earth in ecological crisis, Pope Francis urges conversion to sustainability in his message for the upcoming World Day of Prayer for Creation.
A church official in Tigray, Ethiopia, says the government’s siege-like blockade prevents millions from receiving desperately-needed humanitarian aid.
Immigration lawyer Heidi Cerneka, MKLM, reflects on the Gospel call to hear the knock at our door and respond to stranger and neighbor
The third in our 2016 spirituality series on the Jubilee Year of Mercy || [googlefont...
Brother John Blazo, a member of the Maryknoll Mission Education and Promotion Department’s Northeast Region, welcomes a young...
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, September & October 2016 While I was driving a fellow Maryknoll lay missioner to the airport in Mwanza, Tanzania, we encountered a torrential rainfall. We made it to the airport but when I returned, I could not get through on the main road. A dala...
Pope Francis’ virtues of courage, compassion and commitment to the Gospel are breathing new life into the campaign for nuclear disarmament. “There is urgent need to work for a world free of nuclear...
ON FATHER CAPODANNO Regarding your coverage of Father Vincent Capodanno in the January/February issue of Maryknoll magazine, my brother Jim died in Vietnam on June 2, 1967. Father Vincent, who gave...
