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 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 By Deirdre Cornell 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 immigration raid had just occurred at a local workplace. Her...
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....
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi delivers a letter to President Biden, saying the pope prioritizes peace and the return of deported Ukrainian children.
Haitian gangs have overrun the country to the point that international intervention is needed, say Church leaders and experts.
Even if the fruits are not immediately visible, Christians are called to sow seeds of faith in their daily lives, Pope Francis says at the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square on July 16, 2023.
During his Angelus address, Pope Francis encourages listeners to look with awe and wonder for “signs of God acting in the world.”
U.S. Bishops praise expansion of 'family reunification' processes to provide lawful pathways for...
Experts discuss the manifold root causes driving migration and displacement all over the world in...
Reflecting on this Sunday’s Mass readings, a Maryknoll sister describes Jesus’ yoke through sharing a mission experience from East Africa.
Pope Francis announces creation of a commission to research and disseminate stories of Christian martyrs, including non-Catholics, killed during the past 25 years.
Brazil’s bishops’ conference works to combat contemporary slavery, which worsened under two past presidents.
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow meets with Cardinal Matteo Zuppi as part of Pope Francis’ peace mission to Russia.
A Maryknoll priest serving in Tanzania reflects on this Sunday’s Scripture readings on loss and carrying our cross.
A lay missioner serving at the U.S./Mexico border reflects on the upcoming Sunday Mass readings and Pope Francis’ call to respect the dignity of migrants.
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.
In an interview, Scalabrinian Father Fabio Baggio outlines the Church’s global outreach to migrants and refugees.
The fourth in our 2016 spirituality series celebrating the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Before coming to...
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...
