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Dialogue, Diplomacy Can Lead to Lasting Peace in Ukraine, Pope Says

Dialogue, Diplomacy Can Lead to Lasting Peace in Ukraine, Pope Says

By OSV News | December 9, 2025
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Pope Leo XIV reiterated the importance of dialogue and his hopes for a just and lasting peace in the region. “In addition, the questions of prisoners of war and the need to assure the return of Ukrainian children to their families we...
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Remembering the Martyrs

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 1, 2025
A journalist uncovers new information in the murders of four churchwomen, including two Maryknoll sisters, in El Salvador. For those of us who went to Central America as young reporters in the late 1970s, as bloody civil wars were erupting in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, one of the biggest challenges was to find some fixed compass amid alm...
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Spirit of Mission: Great Bridge to Unity

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | December 1, 2025
Last May 8 is destined to become one of those “Where were you when ... ?” moments. As white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and joy erupted at the words Habemus papam! I was sitting outside having lunch when Maryknoll’s bells joined the chorus ringing out from churches around the world. We had an hour to wait to learn who would be the 267t...
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Mission Enriched by the Gifts of Others

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | December 1, 2025
While reflecting on mission and the path of synodality proposed by Pope Francis, I find myself thinking of the presence and work of two companions who have enriched our mission at the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers center in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. “We know how beautiful and tiring that journey has been,” said Pope Francis. “We are m...
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Use All Doors: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | October 16, 2025
By St. Isidore of Seville International Online Small Christian Community Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary TimeOctober 19, 2025Ex. 17:8-13 | 2 Tim. 3:14-4:2| Luke 18:1-8 Here is a personal witness story.I am 22-year-old Mary Wahome, born and raised in Kenya, and a faithful Catholic. In 2015, my mum passed away and I became the mother to my 7-year-old...
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From the Editor: Heralds of Hope

By Lynn F. Monahan | September 2, 2025
Our cover features the two new priests ordained in June to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. Father Matthew Sim and Father Patrick Okok were both assigned to mission in Taiwan. The ordaining prelate, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, recounted during the ordination Mass how his own vocation to the priesthood was inspired in part by a Maryknoll mis...
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Prayer for Vocations, Fall 2025

By John Cuff, M.M. | September 2, 2025
Good Shepherd, you saw mankind as sheep without a shepherd, often going astray, vulnerable to danger, living in a world of wolves. So, you have called us to the work of caring for your flock, and have called some of us to a lifelong commitment of sharing more closely in the life and work of the Good Shepherd. I thank you for letting me hear your vo...
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A woman sits on the ground in despair with a baby sleeping peacefully in a wrap on her back.

A Sacrifice of Praise

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | March 1, 2020
A sacrifice of praiseBy Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M. We sacrifice little who offer God Of our excess prosperity or time As if a minimum of effort would ever suffice To cleanse our sins or delay God’s justice Or perhaps bribe our way into heaven’s favor Or, worse, bend divine will to our own. No, authentic sacrifice demands nothing less Than a painf...
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A group of women, one with a baby, smile and laugh as they walk out of church.

Second Sunday of Advent: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | December 4, 2025
By Ann Hayden, M.M.  Sunday, December 7, 2025Is. 11:1-10 | Rom. 15:4-9| Matthew 3:1-12 Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths: All flesh shall see the salvation of God. — Luke 3:4-6 Pope Leo XIV, in his recent Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te, said “Love for the Lord, then, is one with love for the poor. The same Jesus wh...
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Missioner Tales, Winter 2026

By Missioner Tales | December 3, 2025
In Kenya, where I am serving as a Maryknoll lay missioner in the HOPE Project, I met a widow named Lucy. After the death of her husband in 2020, Lucy was left to care for three children with barely any means. Her youngest son, Athman, is now 13 years old but is only in sixth grade. He fell behind because he was in and out of school, depending on wh...
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Pope Leo’s Wisdom for Seminarians

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 3, 2025
A Maryknoll seminarian reflects on his visit to the Vatican for the Jubilee of Seminarians. I am grateful that I was able to attend the Jubilee of Seminarians, along with my fellow Maryknoll seminarian Samuel Mutuku, last June 23 and 24. Rome’s summer heat was unmerciful, but fortunately most events were held indoors. The main gathering was the m...
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A young boy walks through a flooded path between UNICEF tents in Gaza.

Situation in Gaza Remains ‘Critical,’ Catholic Leaders Say

By OSV News | December 3, 2025
By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) — As Pope Leo XIV urged in Turkey last week that “the future of humanity is at stake” with ongoing conflict in the Middle East and days after a United Nations Security Council endorsement of a U.S.-backed peace plan, Catholic leaders warn that conditions in Gaza remain grave, especially as winter approac...
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From the Editor: Winter 2026

By Lynn F. Monahan | December 1, 2025
Immigration — and what is happening right now to immigrants in our country — is something we simply cannot be silent about. We received various letters and comments on my interview with Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, in our Fall issue of Maryknoll, and some of them, both pro and con, are printed in our Readers’ Responses. Immigration...
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‘Guard This Treasure’

By Deirdre Cornell | December 1, 2025
A Maryknoll priest spends a lifetime in mission accompanying the people of El Salvador and honoring their martyrs. In the city of San Salvador, a street mural portrays a memorable Mass. One side of the painted altar shows images of devastation. On the other, vivid colors bring to life a thriving community. A quote on the altar cloth reads, “Guard...
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Flowers from Tanzania

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | December 1, 2025
On June 22, the Maryknoll Sisters Center stirred with joy as Felista Wanzagi and Esther Warioba made their final vows at the Annunciation Chapel in Ossining, New York. To the tune of a song in Swahili, Sisters Wanzagi and Warioba processed to the altar, adorned with Hawaiian garlands and wearing dresses that represented their mission journeys. Sist...
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Fishing for Justice in Taiwan

By Paul Jeffrey | December 1, 2025
A Maryknoll priest and his partners in mission assist migrant fishers in Taiwan. Gerald Mustago left his home in the Philippines eight years ago to become a fisher in Taiwan, home to the world’s second largest deep-sea fishing fleet. “I couldn’t make enough money to support my wife and children, so I came here to work on the fishing boats,”...
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The Darkness of This Time

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 1, 2025
A Maryknoll sister reflects on her work with migrant children and families. My commute each morning begins before dawn. Usually I welcome the darkness, which provides coolness, stillness and time for reflection. I make my way to the clinic where I work supporting at-risk moms and babies in a rural, underserved, predominantly migrant farmworker town...
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God, Present in My Journey

By Leonel Yoque | December 1, 2025
A Maryknoll missionary disciple reflects on his story of migration and service. One day while I was studying law at the University of San Carlos in my native Guatemala, there was an evacuation order during final exams due to a bomb threat. Everyone left the building in dismay. Days later, 10 student leaders were kidnapped. Five were murdered and th...
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Mango Tree Cathedrals in Uganda

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 1, 2025
Maryknoll lay missioners in East Africa lead a course in nonviolence and conflict resolution. Joanne Blaney and I, Maryknoll lay missioners, were invited to Northern Uganda last year by the Archdiocese of Gulu. Much of our work took place in the shade of huge, leafy mango trees laden with ripening fruit. The Gulu area is largely populated by a...
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Prayer for Vocations, Winter 2026

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 1, 2025
In Challenging Times Dear God, in the midst of a noisy world I come before you seeking the silence to hear your voice. It is so easy to be distracted by daily headlines, the internet, phone calls and messages and all my comings and goings. In my heart I yearn for the peace and quiet to converse with you, to hear your voice alone. I know that it is ...
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