A lay missioner’s legal advocacy—with the prayers and support of many—changes Elizabeth’s life forever.
Beating the Odds with an Immigration Case
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Maryknoll Magazine Spring 2025
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.
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.
Two Days/One Suitcase for Japanese-Americans
At 87 years old, Helen Hannan Parra is on a mission: to tell everyone she can about the unjust imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Helen Remembers and a Book Is Born
In a new book, Two Days and One Suitcase, Helen Hannan Parra, now in her 80s, shares her childhood memories of life in a Japanese-American internment camp.
Reflecting on a Tragic Salvadoran Anniversary
A former Maryknoll priest associate recalls the night they killed the Jesuits. William Schmidt, a former Maryknoll priest associate, served as a pastor in the Zacamil neighborhood of San Salvador, El Salvador, at the height of the country’s civil war. He recalls those harrowing days when many of...
‘Go Digital or Die’
A Maryknoll priest helps Small Christian Communities in Kenya get online during pandemic crisis. When the Kenyan government ordered the country into lockdown to curtail the spread of the coronavirus earlier this year, Maryknoll Father Joseph Healey remembered a quote from the movie The Sound of...
Honoring George Floyd on 38th & Chicago
On the site of the killing of African-American George Floyd, a white, suburban Minneapolis man vows to combat racism. Late in April 1992, as I made my way home after dark in a West Philadelphia neighborhood, I was set upon by a small group of youths carrying bats and boards. Hours earlier,...
A Heart for Mission
Priest from Malone, N.Y., lives out his call to missionas a Maryknoll priest associate in Bolivia.When Ronald Albarez began his internship in psychology last year, he dealt with cases of domestic violence, sexual abuse and suicide attempts. Feeling discouraged about how much violence and cruelty...
A Voice for Nuclear Victims
Maryknoll sister advocates for victims of Japan’s triple disaster caused by an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear accident. After Japan lifted its state of emergency, due to the coronavirus, on May 31, Maryknoll Sister Kathleen Reiley expressed relief that COVID-19 was settling down in the...
At God’s Service
A Maryknoll brother teaches that love and dignity come from God.During his years of teaching English in northern China, Maryknoll Brother Joseph Bruener has found a unique way to share God’s love with his university students. He gives them a class exercise to write an affirmation about each of...
NEWS
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Community Mourns Missionary who Defended Indigenous in Venezuela
As Consolata Father Josiah K’Okal is remembered for his legacy of service to the Warao people, human rights groups demand an investigation into his death.
Islamic State Attacks Church in Turkey During Mass
The Islamic State claims responsibility for an assault during a Mass in Istanbul that killed one churchgoer and injured others.
Witness in Jamaica: A Maryknoll Reflection
A deacon and leader of Maryknoll’s Mission Formation Program, which runs immersion programs, reflects on the Sunday Mass readings.
Six Nuns Kidnapped in Haiti Are Freed
After urgent calls from religious leaders including Pope Francis and the president of the Latin America and Caribbean bishops’ conference, six Sisters of St. Anne have been freed.
More Funds for Poor, Less for Weapons, Say 18 US Bishops
A letter sponsored by the organization Pax Christi as part of their Bread not Stones campaign, endorsed by 18 bishops, calls for cuts to military spending and more resources for human services.
Migrants Are Targets for Kidnapping in Mexico
Central American and other migrants en route to the U.S.-Mexico border are routinely held for ransom as criminal gangs engage in kidnappings.
Six Religious Sisters Kidnapped in Haiti
Members of the Congregation of Saint Anne were kidnapped by criminal gangs in a sign of the country’s furthering spiral into violence.
Along the Paths of Hope: A Maryknoll Reflection
A Maryknoll lay missioner reflects on the call of prophets old and new to change our ways and respond to those who are suffering.
Migrant Drownings Stoke Cross-Border Tensions, Questions of Jurisdiction
The drownings of three migrants in the Rio Grande has deepened a jurisdictional dispute between the U.S. federal and Texas state governments.
Christian Witness in Gaza a ‘Miracle’ amid War, Custos Says
Catholics in Gaza gives “a strong testimony of faith,” praying, helping each other and “keeping their hearts free from hatred.” priest says.
Bishop Rolando Álvarez Is Exiled from Nicaragua
After 500 days in detention, Bishops Rolando Álvarez was released and sent to Rome along with another bishop and 17 priests and seminarians.
‘Here I Am:’ A Maryknoll Reflection
Maryknoll Sister Arlene Trant reflects on the upcoming Sunday Mass readings and how her own calling led her to respond, ‘Here I am.”
Bishops of Ecuador: Violence Must Not Prevail
After the violent takeover of a media outlet and riots in prisons, Ecuador’s bishops issue a plea for peace, calm and order.
Syrians May Go Hungry as World Food Program Cuts Off Aid
Catholic warn that Syrians are on the brink of starvation as the United Nations World Food Program plans to cut off its assistance.
PHOTO MEDITATION
Spirituality
Spirit of Mission: Christ, the fullness of time
The miracle of Christmas is God didn’t just take on our human nature but transformed our chronological time into God’s fullness of time.
Partners in Mission
Diosita Grows up with Maryknoll
If what you learn as a child shapes your maturity, the Balio family from Pantukan, Philippines, is one of the wisest families.
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, Winter 2021
I first met Jose when he participated in my first Theater of the Oppressed group in a parish on the periphery of João Pessoa, Brazil, where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner. Jose (not his real name) was probably 20 years old and very active in the parish. He had...
ORBIS BOOKS SPOTLIGHT
World Watch
Vatican COVID-19 Commission Examines Pastoral and Social Challenges of Pandemic
Pope Francis asks Vatican COVID-19 Commission to focus on four social issue areas: security, economics, ecology and health.
Readers’ Responses
Readers’ Responses Winter 2021
Our readers comment on past articles appearing in Maryknoll magazine under the heading of Readers’ Responses Winter 2021.
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