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Readers’ Responses, Winter 2026

By Our Readers | December 1, 2025
BISHOP IS SPOT ONI would like to comment on “False Narratives of Immigration,” which ran in your Fall 2025 issue. Many of my fellow parishioners in our Michigan church have bought into the falsehoods being circulated by our current administration regarding this topic. I, however, have personally observed the cruelty caused by the outr...
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Readers’ Responses, Fall 2025

By Our Readers | September 2, 2025
I applaud the statement from the Maryknoll superior general published in the 2025 Summer issue. Rather than tens of thousands of federal workers losing their jobs, current available data suggests about 250,000 positions have been affected. While funding for PEPFAR is absolutely critical as described, its effective implementation requires many feder...
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Greed Is Not the Path: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | July 31, 2025
By Esperanza Principio, M.M. Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeAugust 3, 2025Eccl 1:2; 2:21-23 | Col 3:1-5, 9-11 | Lk 12:13-21 “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” I have a vivid recollection of what moved me to realize my calling to dedicate myself to God’s service ...
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Readers’ Responses, Summer 2025

By Our Readers | June 2, 2025
ALWAYS A MISSIONER I remember reading Maryknoll magazine as a girl growing up in a big family in Oregon’s logging country. As I faithfully read the magazine each month, I found myself wanting to be a Maryknoll missioner. Alas, young life’s dreams took a back seat to other paths … college, teaching, motherhood, church musician, travel, etc. He...
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The Kingdom of Heaven: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | May 16, 2025
By Joshua Sisolak Fifth Sunday of EasterMay 18, 2025Acts 14:21-27 | Rv 21:1-5a | Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35 As someone who is just starting mission overseas, I have contemplated where my focus should be in relation to the promised Kingdom of Heaven. I try to be a conscious advocate for social justice today, which is why I am wary of a mentality that disre...
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Readers’ Responses, Spring 2025

By Our Readers | March 3, 2025
BE PRESENT TO OTHERS Having served with Maryknoll in Bolivia, I was delighted with the Fall 2024 issue of Maryknoll magazine. The “attentive presence” of Brother Ryan Thibert and of Filomena Siles and Joseph Loney, a Maryknoll lay mission couple in Cochabamba — all working with marginalized people of the community — put flesh on the words i...
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Readers’ Responses, Winter 2025

By Our Readers | December 2, 2024
MISSION AND FAITH A friend gifted me your magazine years ago and I continue to receive it. Currently I go to it most mornings to read a page or two as part of my prayer time. It offers much helpful wisdom. The mission and faith of those who serve around the world is an inspiration to me to live my faith John HoweJefferson, Ohio TWO-STATE SOLUTION A...
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Readers’ Responses, Fall 2024

By Our Readers | September 3, 2024
SHARE PRAYER I wanted to comment on the beautiful “Prayer for Vocations” written by Deacon (soon to be Father) Charles Ogony in the Spring 2024 edition of your magazine. We are blessed with good and holy priests in our parish, and I pray for them, for those in formation and for those who struggle to be the salt of the earth and light to the wor...
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Readers’ Responses, Summer 2024

By Our Readers | June 3, 2024
A NEW HERO I am hitting 80 and have been reading Maryknoll magazine since I was a small child. It was always my real-life adventure story with the heroes in black, white, and grey habits all around the world.  Today the saga continues. And a new hero is Father Joseph Veneroso. The Spring 2024 issue is a keeper with a prayer poem reflecting divine ...
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Readers’ Responses, Spring 2024

By Our Readers | March 4, 2024
FROM AN OLD FRIEND Please thank Father Bob McCahill for his interview in the Spring 2023 issue of Maryknoll, from an old friend in Bangladesh! I enjoyed the article about his ministry and the articles about other ministries too.  Also, please thank the lovely young lady — Jacqueline Romo — for the eye-and-heart-opening butterfly Way of the Cro...
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Readers’ Responses, Winter 2024

By Our Readers | December 4, 2023
NAÏVE APPROACH This letter is in response to the World Watch column in your Fall 2023 issue, “What’s Next for Asylum?” These people are illegal aliens entering this country to do criminal acts — sex trafficking, drug trafficking, etc. These aliens are not “fleeing persecution.” Quite the contrary. Yes, innocent children are involved an...
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