This issue of Maryknoll magazine, Heralds of Hope, presents our two recently ordained priests. They are signs of hope for the Church, for Maryknoll as a mission society and for the people they will serve abroad.
So, too, is our new pontiff, Pope Leo XIV. The first pope from the United States, he brings personal mission experience and “a deep commitment to dialogue, peace and global solidarity” to the Church and the world.
Hope is infectious and abounds in the stories of Maryknoll missioners.
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.
For many countries in Africa, the steps to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic are exacerbating already dire circumstances, and warnings are mounting of a double tragedy: disease and starvation.
Maryknoll sister’s ministry provides compassionate accompaniment to elderly residents in PanamaThe New Life Foundation in Panama is living up to its name even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As this virus swept around the world, Maryknoll Sister Geraldine Brake and her team adapted to...
When the first coronavirus case was reported in Japan last January—the second country to report a case after it appeared in Wuhan, China—the students at Tenshi College in the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido, had already finished their exams. There were only a few students around the campus where Maryknoll Father Kenneth Sleyman has been teaching for 19 years.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Heidi Cerneka is sounding the alarm about the life-threatening consequences of immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic.
No vaccine. No antibiotics for treatment. Worldwide control efforts including isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants and limitations of public gatherings. These words, so resonant today in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, were used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to describe the influenza pandemic that ravaged the world more than a century ago.
Maryknoll mission promoters accompany missionary disciples during pandemic, offering webinar series during Lent, Holy Week and the Easter season.
Maryknoll sister shares love and compassion at a children’s ward in a cancer hospital Every time she visits the children’s ward at the National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, Maryknoll Sister Kathleen Reiley comes away renewed. “These children are my teachers,” says the missioner,...
How one Catholic diocese in Tanzania works to protect girls from abuse When she was only 8 years old, Ghati was sold by her older brother to a 55-year-old man, who put the orphan girl on a motorcycle and rode to his house near Musoma, Tanzania. There the man raped her. After two weeks of...
Gregory McPhee gives up a career as a lawyer to become a Maryknoll priest As a criminal defense lawyer in Syracuse, N.Y., Gregory McPhee enjoyed his job. “I liked going to court, litigating, arguing and thinking on my feet,” he says. But as he worked hard to balance the scales of justice on...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
In his weekly general audience Wednesday, May 22, Pope Francis teaches on the importance of humility in the spiritual life of Christians.
With weeks of storms and flooding devastating entire communities, Catholics in Brazil mobilize relief efforts for the displaced.
Launched from various starting points, four pilgrimages set out at Pentecost, to converge at the National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21.
Latin patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa travels to Gaza for the first time since the conflict broke out last October.
Catholic immigration experts worry that a proposed rule change to “credible fear” protocols will deter — and even endanger — asylum seekers.
The doctrine of the Ascension teaches us that all people are invited to the path to heaven, with Jesus leading the way, said Pope Francis.
Maryknoll Sister Darleen Jacobs reflects on the importance of unity in the Sunday Mass readings and recalls 40 years of mission in Tanzania.
The Holy Year, which will begin Dec. 24, is a time to perform Works of Mercy and to strengthen hope for Christians, especially young people.
Caritas Poland says Israel’s escalation in Rafah is worsening the humanitarian crisis for people in Gaza caught in the crossfire.
Holocaust survivor Alex Rosin offers his testimony of being hidden by a Polish Catholic family and shares his pain over the current conflict.
A hospital run by Caritas in Bethlehem tends to 50,000 children a year as the only pediatric hospital functioning in the West Bank.
By Doreen Longres, M.M. Sunday, May 5, 2024 Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 | 1 Jn 4:7-10 | Jn 15:9-17...
During his general audience on May 1, 2024, St. Joseph the Worker's feast day, Pope Francis says...
Church leaders including a Catholic bishop and heads of several denominations say the new law puts...
Maryknoll priest reflects on mourning for loved ones who have passed away in this time of...
Faith helps a nurse in a New York hospital care for COVID-19 patients and encourage her co-workers in the struggle I have been working at...
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.
The idea of making protective masks during the COVID-19 pandemic started in our Maryknoll lay missioner house here in Haiti, but we had no big plans in place. Then our Religious of Jesus and Mary friends offered us a sewing machine. Another friend, Geri Lanham, said...
Debt relief campaign seeks to help impoverished countries struggling with COVID-19 pandemic avert financial ruin As the dire economic consequences of COVID-19 have emerged, religious and...
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