Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || JOINT EMPATHY I join you in your empathy for refugees. Charity demands a positive response to their plight, and, as you said, it begins with the problems in their native lands, where they would certainly prefer to stay. But there is a problem...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || REMEMBERING ROMERO Let us thank Octavio Duran, OFM, for his wonderful article in the September/October 2018 issue of Maryknoll on Saint Oscar Romero. I liked the way he described Archbishop Romero and his biblical spirituality. Brother Octavio...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || CALM SHAKEN My inmost calm was shaken when I came to the end of your article on Mary and Islam in the July/August issue. I have been a faithful member of Maryknoll since 1957, seriously contemplating joining the order, at that time. In today’s...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || UNITY AND FORGIVENESS The May/June 2018 Maryknoll magazine arrived the day the reading was from Acts 15:1–6, the story of Paul and Barnabas confronted by the Judaizers. Father Joseph R. Veneroso referred to this conflictual reality in his Peter...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || PRAYER FOR PRIESTS Today I read a beautiful article in Maryknoll magazine (March/April 2018 issue) honoring Harry Florentine. No one can fill his shoes exactly, but his mission is very near to my own heart. I do something similar for several...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || LOVING MEMORIES I always look forward to receiving Maryknoll magazine and the January/February issue was no exception. The featured stories, highlights from the various departments and outstanding photography make me anxious to read from cover...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || YOUTH CONNECTION Thank you for the inspiring article “Mission in the City: Native American Youth Explore Change and Leadership in Chicago” in the September/October issue. We have supported Maryknoll, the St. Labre Indian Catholic School...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || DEEPLY MOVED The September/October 2017 issue is a real winner. The photo meditation by Father Veneroso is so beautiful, as is anything he writes. I enjoyed his experience with angels as a 6-year-old in “A rumor of angels.” I was also deeply...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || NOT SO FEEL GOOD I am writing to second a reader’s letter in your July/August issue of Maryknoll that practically all your articles are the feel good kind that never address the corruption and oppression in the third world. For example, you have...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || ANIMAL TREATMENT I admire how Brother J. Francis Dolphin has used skills and attractions since childhood to bring joy to the sick and to lead English as a second language classes. His love of the circus is clear. For an article in justice-oriented...
