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Magazine

Fall 2024

Various images from the Fall 2024 issue of Maryknoll Magazine

From the Editor: Sent to Heal

By Lynn F. Monahan | September 3, 2024
Please join me in congratulating our newest Maryknoll priests, featured in our cover story. Fathers Joshua Maondo and Charles Ogony were ordained on June 8 at Maryknoll’s Our Lady Queen of Apostles Chapel in Ossining, New York. While ordinations are already joyous occasions, the presence of the two men’s Kenyan compatriots lent an especially fe...
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An elderly Mapuche woman who worked with Maryknoll in Chile is pictured. (Sean Sprague/Chile)

Missioner Tales, Fall 2024

By Missioner Tales | September 3, 2024
Missioners share vignettes of mission life from the countries of Chad, Chile, El Salvador and from the U.S./Mexico border.
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Maryknoll Fathers Charles Ogony and Joshua Maondo (left, right) dance with Sisters Lydia Yala and Terry Makokha, Father Maondo’s aunt (far right), after their ordination Mass held on June 8, 2024 at the Maryknoll Society chapel in Ossining, New York. (Octavio Durán/U.S.)

Carrying the Flag of Mission

By Andrea Moreno-Díaz and Giovana Soria | September 3, 2024
Maryknoll continues to usher in a “new era of mission” with the ordination of two men from Kenya as Maryknoll priests.
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Pope Francis and members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops pray in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall October 6, 2023. Maryknoll Father William LaRousse is one of the Synod participants. (CNS/Lola Gomez/Vatican City)

A Synodal Church is Missionary

By Lynn F. Monahan | September 3, 2024
A Maryknoll priest participating in the Synod on Synodality says it is the major event in the Church following the Second Vatican Council.
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On a farm near Entre Ríos, Bolivia, educator Eulalia Balderrama, of the Social Justice Foundation run by two Maryknoll lay missioners, assists 3-year-old Juan Mamani Rodriguez, who has Down syndrome. (Meinrad Scherer-Emunds/Bolivia)

Challenging Assumptions in Bolivia

By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds | September 3, 2024
Maryknoll Lay Missioners Joe Loney and Filo Siles run the Social Justice Foundation, serving almost 800 people with disabilities, in Bolivia.
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Former Maryknoll Lay Missioner Judy Ress and Maryknoll Sister Linda Donovan visit the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile. During Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year military dictatorship, some 40,000 people suffered human rights violations and more than 3,000 were executed or disappeared. (Deirdre Cornell/Chile)

The Trauma of Memory in Chile

By Linda Donovan, M.M. | September 3, 2024
Maryknoll Sister Linda Donovan, who has called Chile “home” for four decades, recalls the courage of missioners during General Pinochet’s military dictatorship.
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Maryknoll Brother Ryan Thibert greets visitors outside the Salomon Klein Orphanage in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he serves in two local ministries. (Adam Mitchell/Bolivia)

Being There: A Brother in Mission

By Ryan Thibert | September 3, 2024
Maryknoll Brother Ryan Thibert describes his mission journey, marked by listening, presence and companionship, especially for the abandoned.
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Immaculate Heart Sister of Africa Margaret John Masalu, founder of St. Justin’s Centre, is shown with one of the children the center serves. (Courtesy of Erin Rickwa/Tanzania)

Bridges to Healing International

By Erin Rickwa | September 3, 2024
Maryknoll affiliate Erin Rickwa expands a project she founded to help high-risk children, Bridges to Healing International, to Tanzania.
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An image of "Vessels of Love" by Joyce Rupp

Vessels of Love

By Robert Ellsberg | September 3, 2024
Beloved spiritual writer Joyce Rupp explores spirituality of aging in her recent work, Vessels of Love, published by Maryknoll’s Orbis Books.
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