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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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Orbis Books: The Years of Ripening

By Robert Ellsberg | September 2, 2025
Joyce Rupp is one of my all-time favorite spiritual guides: she’s a wonderful mix of wise, calm, and challenging. And her insights on aging have been of enormous help in my own life. … Let her new book help you to do it with grace, courage, humor — and joy! — James Martin, S.J. ast year Sister Joyce Rupp published Vessels of Love:...
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Readers’ Responses, Summer 2025

By Our Readers | June 2, 2025
ALWAYS A MISSIONER I remember reading Maryknoll magazine as a girl growing up in a big family in Oregon’s logging country. As I faithfully read the magazine each month, I found myself wanting to be a Maryknoll missioner. Alas, young life’s dreams took a back seat to other paths … college, teaching, motherhood, church musician, travel, etc. He...
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Poem: A Migrant’s Trail

By Richard Dixon | June 2, 2025
In this moving poem, Maryknoll Lay Missioner Rick Dixon follows one migrant’s trail to its tragic end, a grave marker in a potter’s field. She’s knocking on the door of light one more time,and one more time it opens only to darkness.There are shadows lying across the land,but she knows the desert has two faces,the terror of death and the trea...
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Partners in Mission: A Faith of Our Own

By Michael Ho | June 2, 2025
Growing up as a Korean American Catholic isn’t easy. In addition to the usual challenges children face, like making friends and doing well in school, many of us born into immigrant families also struggle to learn our parents’ language. For me, that meant there were things we weren’t fully able to share, and one of those was our Catholic faith...
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Readers’ Responses, Spring 2025

By Our Readers | March 3, 2025
BE PRESENT TO OTHERS Having served with Maryknoll in Bolivia, I was delighted with the Fall 2024 issue of Maryknoll magazine. The “attentive presence” of Brother Ryan Thibert and of Filomena Siles and Joseph Loney, a Maryknoll lay mission couple in Cochabamba — all working with marginalized people of the community — put flesh on the words i...
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Orbis Books: Dorothy Day

By Robert Ellsberg | March 3, 2025
It is 50 years since I met Dorothy Day, when I took a leave from college at 19 to work with her at the Catholic Worker in New York. Within months she appointed me managing editor of her newspaper, thus pointing me in the direction of my life’s work — not just as an editor, but as her editor. Having edited five previous volumes of her writings, ...
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Prayer for Vocations, Spring 2025

By Dae Kim, M.M. | March 3, 2025
Oh Invigorating and Inspiring God, My heart is restless seeing so many people suffer around the world.Yet my heart rejoices in seeing your Church renewed in its missionTo all people, especially those who feel abandoned from your love. We are thankful for your Son, Jesus Christ, who has shown usThe path to authentic love for all humanity — an exem...
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Vatican II at 60: Maryknoll Bishops at the Council

By James H. Kroeger, M.M. | March 3, 2025
Truly, a challenging task! How does one adequately capture the participation of the 14 Maryknoll bishops who attended the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965)? A simple glimpse of the group photograph begins the story. Bishop John W. Comber, who was Maryknoll superior general at the time of Vatican II, attended all four sessions of the Council. He wa...
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A Tribute to Gustavo Gutiérrez

By Robert Ellsberg | March 3, 2025
With the passing of Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, who died in October at the age of 96, the Church has lost a prophet and groundbreaking theologian who substantially enlarged its social teaching. The poor of the world have lost an advocate. And Maryknoll has lost a great friend. Father Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest who studied in France, was...
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Missioner Tales, Spring 2025

By Missioner Tales | March 3, 2025
A group of our Maryknoll community including myself went to the Amazon region of Bolivia to celebrate Holy Week with the Indigenous people of Santísima Trinidad parish. It was wonderful to learn about the joys and struggles of the people as well as their cultural traditions celebrating Easter. During the Easter Vigil, a 7-year-old boy joyfully san...
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Partners in Mission: Love Lives On

By Giovana Soria | December 2, 2024
ears flowed from her eyes as Maureen Long recalled her parents’ last wish. Francis and Patricia Lafferty, a couple from Pennsylvania who were married for 58 years, wanted their wedding rings to become part of an enduring sacred symbol. A few months before Patricia passed away in September of 2022, she expressed this wish: “That our wedding ring...
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Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty

By Robert Ellsberg | December 2, 2024
If we’re wise we find a book like this one … with every hope we ever dreamed, and every word we remember of its insights, and all the joy and possibility it ever brought to all our wishes and all the promises we promised before these times to celebrate the rest of life. — From the Afterword by Joan Chittister Mary Lou Kownacki, who died in 20...
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