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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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Carrying the Flag of Mission

By Andrea Moreno-Díaz and Giovana Soria | September 3, 2024
A stirring call to worship in Swahili, ululations and Kenyan drums brought the spirit of Africa to the Maryknoll campus in Ossining, New York, for the ordination of the two newest Maryknoll priests, Joshua Maondo and Charles Ogony, from Kenya. Maryknoll missioners and attendees of different countries, languages and cultures packed Our Lady Queen of...
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The Cry of the Poor for Liberation

By Ray Almanza | September 3, 2024
WEB-ONLY: Maryknoll Father Stephen Judd describes an early encounter that shaped his mission life. As a young seminarian, in 1973, he and other Maryknollers were visited in Arequipa, Peru, by Father Gustavo Gutiérrez. “He touched on the essential elements of doing theology in a different way,” recalls Father Judd. This meeting with the founder...
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‘The Sun Is Burning Up the Forest’

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | September 3, 2024
Father Enrique Bustamante, a companion on our missionary journey in the Amazon, called me a year ago with distressing news: “The sun is burning up the forest.” The missionary priest continued, “My avocado plant was healthy and green. A couple of hours of intense sunshine has burned it up. The forests are burning everywhere here. People are ve...
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World Watch: Water Rights Victory in Peru

By Thomas Gould | September 3, 2024
AMaryknoll-supported organization in the southern Andes of Peru has won a landmark victory in a case for water rights. Maryknoll Sister Patricia Ryan founded Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente (Human Rights and Environment) to elevate voices of Indigenous peoples in the area who are easily exploited by extractive industries and often marginalized in...
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Spirit of Mission: Healing from the Sacred Heart

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | September 3, 2024
As an Italian-American Catholic, I was raised on stories of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini. The first U.S. citizen to be canonized, she is the patron saint of immigrants. My mother unknowingly implanted in my heart the desire to become a missioner when she read to me from Mother Cabrini’s biography Too Small a World. Pope Leo XIII, reluctant to ap...
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A Seminarian’s Reflection from the Amazon

By Leonard Kabaka | June 3, 2024
Human beings are God’s language. If you want to hear God, you have to hear God through the people. We Overseas Training Program students experience mission with a people, a cultural community. The missioner and the welcoming community learn from each other as God mysteriously evangelizes both of us. [The Amazon region we visit] is home to the Moj...
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Maryknoll at the UN: Mission to Missions

By Lynn F. Monahan | June 3, 2024
The United Nations headquarters in New York City might not seem like mission territory, but for Maryknoll and the missioners who serve there, it very much is. For Maryknoll Sister Margaret Lacson, the distinctive U.N. building on the East Side of Manhattan is a long way from her native Philippines or Japan, where she spent 30 years in mission. Yet,...
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2023 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest Winners

2023 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest Winners

By Maryknoll Press | June 3, 2024
We asked students to reflect on this essay prompt: “Jesus teaches us to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us. How can we, as followers of Jesus, stand up for peace and against the growing violence in our country?” We received submissions in two divisions (grades 6-8 and grades 9-12) from students currently enrolled in a Catho...
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Martyrs of the Ixcán

By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds | June 3, 2024
In 1976, a powerful earthquake struck Guatemala, destroying more than 250,000 houses and leaving 1.2 million people homeless. In Auburn, Alabama, John Gauker and his wife, Phyllis, wanted to help. John owned a construction company and felt a call to help with reconstruction.  They knew Spanish from having lived in Spain for three years. Phylli...
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Trial by Fire in the Amazon

By Deirdre Cornell | June 3, 2024
Few places on earth are as challenging as the Amazon rainforest. Yet that is precisely where four Maryknoll seminarians are training to become missionary priests. The young men are spending two years in Bolivia as part of their Overseas Training Program — an essential part of formation for Maryknoll priest and brother candidates. “The first req...
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A New Mission Presence in Chad

By Claudette LaVerdiere, M.M., NgocHà Pham, M.M., Norma Pocasangre, M.M. | June 3, 2024
In April 2022 the Maryknoll Sisters began to consider a new mission. After months of prayerful discernment, they chose the Central African country of Chad. Sisters Lourdes Fernandez, Claudette LaVerdiere, NgocHà Pham and Norma Pocasangre embarked on this new mission journey. The following entries are condensed from their diary. May 1 – 20, 2023:...
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Building a Team for Christian Community

By Deirdre Cornell | June 3, 2024
When he was ordained four years ago, Maryknoll Father Gregory McPhee says, the term yanapanakuna was not part of his vocabulary. Now he spends every day putting this Quechua term into practice: “let’s help one another.” Father McPhee, 54, is forming a chapel community in Los Molinos, a small village in the township of Tiquipaya. A 30-minute d...
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