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.
|| By Gabriela Romeri Vietnamese native to become Maryknoll’s newest priest The road that led Lam Minh Hua to Maryknoll began halfway across the world in Vietnam. There, in a hamlet called LaNang, on the outskirts of the eastern coastal province of Da Nang, Hua, who will become Maryknoll’s newest...
Bishops of Sudan/South Sudan issue exhortation for end to violence Two years ago Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin wrote in Maryknoll magazine about being in the new nation of South Sudan just weeks after the East African country was born out of a peace agreement between the government of Sudan...
Maryknoll priest finds accompanying people with HIV/AIDS in Lima, Peru, is approaching God In a low-ceilinged room of two-tone gray, Maryknoll Father Joseph Fedora spreads his arms and invites Mass-goers to offer their petitions to God. There are prayers for health, for family, and then one man...
|| By Giovana Soria The mission spirit guides a former Maryknoll student from Peru Like thousands of people in the world, Daniel Castellano jumped at the opportunity for a guestworker visa to the United States. He came, he saw but he didn’t conquer. Castellano’s dream of a well-paying job turned...
|| Story and photos by Sean Sprague Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Nairobi, Kenya, enables the deaf to “hear” Amid the joyful strains of a choir dressed in colorful East African robes and ululating dancers gyrating down the aisle of a church in Nairobi, Kenya, the first few rows of the...
|| By Shay Cullen, SSC Orphaned, destitute children in the Philippines face new danger from human traffickers Social worker Marlyn received a message that a 14-year old girl named “Princess” had been trafficked and sold to a sex bar here in the Philippines. Marlyn alerted me and we began planning...
|| By Margaret Gaughan Maryknoll’s nine newest lay missioners begin their journeys overseas Like parents the world over, Peter and Melissa Altman want what’s best for their children. That’s why the couple from Long Beach, N.Y., say they are taking their son, Eli, 7, and daughter Evey, 3, to...
|| By Edward M. Dougherty, M.M. Maryknoll Superior General reflects on how two popes to be canonized this spring have influenced his life Few people ever get the chance to travel with a saint. I did! In September 1988 I was in the contingent of international church people and journalists that...
|| By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M., Photos by Rosemarie Milazzo, M.M. A Maryknoll Sister joins other Christians in peacemaking in Iraqi Kurdistan After decades of missionary work in Tanzania and Kenya, Maryknoll Sister Rosemarie Milazzo feels called to a new mission: building peace with an ecumenical...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
In a Lenten reflection, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns looks at sharing God’s light in the world.
Brazilian church groups propose ways to meet children’s needs in response to increasing hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
The 10 years of Pope Francis’ papacy are marked by his care for poor people — and efforts to put them at the center of the Church.
The Church is for everyone, Pope Francis insists during interviews focused on the 10th anniversary of his papacy.
As the 10-year anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy approaches, Catholics recognize that he brought a new style of leadership to Rome.
In the 2023 Lenten Reflection Guide: Inspired by Laudato Si’, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns reflects on water in Sunday’s Mass readings.
Experts evaluate Pope Francis’ positive impact on Indigenous-Catholic relations as the 10-year anniversary of his papacy approaches.
On International Women’s Day, leaders take stock of Pope Francis’ changes to give women greater roles in the Church.
As the anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy approaches, Latin American ecclesial leaders discuss the past 10 years under his leadership.
As the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy approaches, the Church takes stock of his dynamic global pastoral leadership.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns shares a reflection on the Transfiguration from its 2023 Lenten series inspired by Laudato Si’.
The dictatorship in Nicaragua bans public enactment in the streets of the traditional Via Crucis or Way of the Cross.
Killed in an act of violence, Bishop David O’Connell is recalled for his dedication to pastoral care in Los Angeles’ poorest parishes.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns shares a reflection from its Lenten Reflection series inspired by Laudato Si’.
|| By Betty Ann Maheu, M.M. The fourth in our series of spirituality columns for 2014 reflecting...
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.
I am a retired critical care nurse. One evening I had a patient who had had a very severe heart attack, and his life ebbed away. I knew this man as I'd had him as a patient many times before. That evening he was extremely agitated, and I suspected fearful, as his...
On Aug. 6, the Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration, in which, as the Gospel tells us, in the presence of three disciples, Jesus’ face shone like the sun and his clothes became white...
