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Members of Little Tokyo’s St. Francis Xavier Chapel in Los Angeles and Maryknoll Father Joseph Donovan (third from left) celebrate the blessing of “The Spirit of Our Roots” mural by Erin Yoshi (in orange dress). (Kokawa Photography/U.S.)

Light That Shines Before Others

By Joseph Donovan, M.M. | March 2, 2026
A humble ceremony was held in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles as the world recalled the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan and the incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II. The ceremony on Aug. 31, 2025, was an occasion to bless a multi-wall mural at the only officially Japanese...
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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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Maryknoll Sister Norma Pocasangre (center) serves in pastoral ministry as part of a new mission recently started by the Maryknoll Sisters in the Central African country of Chad. (Courtesy of Norma Pocasangre/Chad)

A New Mission Presence in Chad

By Claudette LaVerdiere, M.M., NgocHà Pham, M.M., Norma Pocasangre, M.M. | June 3, 2024
Four Maryknoll sisters set out last year to launch the congregation’s new mission in the Central African country of Chad.
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In a remote Indigenous community of the Amazon, Maryknoll Seminarians Lawrence Mutiso and Leonard Kabaka (left, right) take Communion to the homebound. (Adam Mitchell/Bolivia)

Trial by Fire in the Amazon

By Deirdre Cornell | June 3, 2024
Four seminarians in Maryknoll’s overseas training program face arduous challenges in Bolivia, including TIPNIS, a remote area of the Amazon.
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