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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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Pursuing Peace and Justice in the Holy Land

By SJ Consulting | March 4, 2024
For more than 25 years, Maryknoll missioners have looked to a group called Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) to provide ways for them to contribute to peace in the Holy Land. Especially at this time of deep division and violence between Israelis and Palestinians, our faith calls us not to lose hope but remain steadfast in our commitment to peac...
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Healing through Faith and Culture

By Leonel Yoque | March 4, 2024
As a child, Juanatano Cano witnessed the killings of many people, including his own uncle who was murdered in their home town of Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.  The decade of the 1980s was one of the darkest periods for the Indigenous people of Guatemala, who suffered the brunt of the country’s 36-year civil war when the army regul...
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Building a Future of Hope in Cambodia

By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. | March 4, 2024
Maryknoll Sister Regina Pellicore summarizes the Maryknoll Sisters’ 33 years of service in Cambodia: “All along the journey, our mission has been to provide the care, love and support needed for a better life.” Cambodia was still reeling from the deep trauma of the Killing Fields when the sisters arrived in 1991 following the Paris Peace Agre...
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Sheep Find Their Pastor

By Lynn F. Monahan | March 4, 2024
María Inés Aspilcueta’s dream as a young girl was to be a teacher. However, after graduating from high school in Lima, Peru, she had to work to help support her family.  Then, in her early 20s, she began losing her sight due to glaucoma. By age 26 she had become completely blind, and went into a severe depression which lasted three years. ...
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Dream On: Lay Missioners Sent to Serve

By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds | March 4, 2024
Go out and dream — that was the message given by Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, to three new lay missioners and a returning lay missioner during the Dec. 2 Covenant and Sending Mass for the Maryknoll Lay Missioners Class of 2023. During his homily at Cristo Rey Church in El Paso, Bishop Seitz said, “It became clear to me as I read up abou...
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Prayer for Vocations: Spring 2024

By Charles Ogony | March 4, 2024
O Jesus Christ Our Savior, you are the master of vocations. You proclaimed to us that “the harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.” With hearts full of gratitude, we accept your invitation to follow you. May you send us as shepherds from your heart to journey with your flock, the people of God.  Inspire more men and women to come wi...
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Cultivating Mission in Cochabamba

By Deirdre Cornell | March 4, 2024
Hummingbirds whir and monarch butterflies flit from one bush to another. Koi swim in small pools. Chickens roam the grounds, as do two llamas — Domingo and Catalina — munching on hibiscus flowers.  The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers center and residence in Cochabamba, Bolivia, bustles with life. “What I love here are two things,” says ...
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Hearts on Fire

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | March 4, 2024
This article was updated on May 13, 2024. In his message for World Mission Day last year, Pope Francis spoke of “hearts on fire, feet on the move.” For two Maryknoll seminarians ordained to the transitional diaconate in 2023, the road to ordination as Maryknoll missionary priests is, quite literally, a journey. Joshua Maondo and Charles Ogony, ...
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They Call Her ‘Foreign Grandmother’

By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. | December 4, 2023
At 51, Maryknoll Sister Hyunjung Kim is both youthful-looking and committed to religious life. Yet, in East Timor — a small nation on the island of Timor, north of Australia — people address Sister Hyunjung as a grandparent. “They call me Avo Malae,” she says. “Foreign Grandmother!” A social worker by profession, Sister Hyunjung has ser...
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Borders of Hope

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | December 4, 2023
When Border Patrol agents dropped off Miguel Soto and his family at a shelter in El Paso, Texas, the family had already spent all their money on their monthlong journey to the U.S. border. They had a contact in Utah, but no means to get there. El Paso means “the pass-through” in Spanish — a name that defines the nature of the city for migrant...
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A Rich Poverty in Bangladesh

By Paul Jeffrey | December 4, 2023
Maryknoll Father Robert McCahill’s room holds few possessions. There’s one cup, one plate, two spoons, a knife, a vegetable peeler, one pot and a small kerosene stove. He owns three shirts and one pair of pants. There’s a baseball cap and a small bag with what he needs to celebrate Mass. A rough wooden shelf holds a missal and a tattered brev...
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Pope Francis: Care for Our Collapsing Home

By OSV News | December 4, 2023
Pope Francis warned the clock is ticking on the dangers of climate change — and both a paradigm shift and practical action are critically needed to avert looming disasters in nature and human society. The pope released his new apostolic exhortation “Laudate Deum” (“Praise God”) Oct. 4 as a follow-up to his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: O...
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