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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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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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‘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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Pope Leo’s Wisdom for Seminarians

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 1, 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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Fishing for Justice in Taiwan

By Paul Jeffrey | December 1, 2025
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,” he says. Every month he sends a few hundred dollars home to his wife and two chi...
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The Darkness of This Time

By Catherine DeVito, M.M. | December 1, 2025
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 in Southwest Florida. The people we serve are mostly from Central America a...
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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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Vatican II at 60: Francis, a Vatican II Missionary Pope

By James H. Kroeger, M.M. | September 2, 2025
Our beloved Pope Francis guided the Church for just over 12 years (2013-2025), all filled with intense activity. As the 266th pope, he garnered many “firsts”: first to take the name Francis, first Jesuit and the first pope from the Americas. Pope Francis, clearly a “missionary pope,” visited over 60 countries and territories on internationa...
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Sent To Do ‘Many Wonderful Things’

By Andrea Moreno-Díaz and Giovana Soria | September 2, 2025
On the vespers of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit brought forth two new Maryknoll priests. Matthew Sim, from Singapore, and Patrick Okok, from Kenya, were ordained on June 7 at Our Lady Queen of Apostles Chapel in Ossining, New York. In his homily, ordaining prelate Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, remembered the late Maryknoll Father John E. Ber...
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Sofía Cruz and Clelia Estrada gather with Maryknoll Fathers John Northrop (far left) and John Spain and with pastor of Cristo Salvador parish, Father Joaquín Álvarez (far right), in the Zacamil neighborhood of Mejicanos, in metropolitan San Salvador.

Partners in Mission: Like Mother, Like Daughter

By Deirdre Cornell | September 2, 2025
Raising two daughters with her husband on the outskirts of San Salvador, Clelia Estrada de Cruz instilled in them her own parents’ values. “They taught us to be generous with others, and to share,” Clelia says. The family belongs to Cristo Salvador, a resilient parish in the Zacamil neighborhood of Mejicanos, El Salvador, where Maryknoll Fath...
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God Waited for Me

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | September 2, 2025
In school, asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, young Joe Everson drew a picture of a priest. In college, he envisioned a teaching career — and ended up becoming an attorney instead. These turns along the road were not errant delays, but part and parcel of his formation as a missioner. The youngest of 10 siblings in San Francisco, Maryknol...
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