Special issue Archives

To Our Partners in Mission

by Raymond J. Finch, M.M. | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

We’re all in this together. How often have we heard these words during this time when the COVID-19...

Orbis Spotlight: The Way of Suffering

by Robert Ellsberg | Jul 1, 2020 | Orbis Books

New Orbis book presents stories, poems and meditations on how suffering can lead to healing ...

Going Where You Are Needed

by Matthew Sim and Charles Ogony | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020, Vocation Journey

We are Maryknoll seminarians doing our overseas training program in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Our missionary training went into high gear in March as Bolivia confirmed more and more cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus and international volunteers were called by their organizations to leave the country.

Ahead of Coronavirus, Starvation Stalks East Africa

by Lynn F. Monahan | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

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.

New Life in the Golden Years

by Maria-Pia Negro Chin | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

Maryknoll sister’s ministry provides compassionate accompaniment to elderly residents in Panama...

Changing Course in a Time of Crisis

by David Aquije | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

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.

The Year of Departures

by Jennifer Halloran | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

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.