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Magazine

Spring 2025

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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Faces that Sustain Mission

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | March 3, 2025
The mission of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers in Bolivia and in the world is possible thanks to countless invisible faces. They are of the people behind the scenes who, through their daily service, make it possible for us to carry out our mission. Two of those invisible faces are those of Zulema Flores Balderrama and Scarley Morales Patiño, ou...
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Partners in Mission: Words, Deeds and Love

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | March 3, 2025
Fung-Bing Ho has encountered several Maryknoll missioners throughout her life and says, for her, that’s simply “God’s will.” Born in 1951 in Guangzhou, China, Ho was a child when her family moved to Macau, where she briefly attended a Catholic school. When her family moved again, this time to Hong Kong, she lost contact with Catholicism. On...
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World Watch: Global Debt Crisis Needs a Jubilee

By Thomas Gould | March 3, 2025
A global debt crisis looms over countries in the Global South, home to 85 percent of the world population. By the end of 2024, countries in the southern hemisphere spent over $1 billion a day on debt payments alone. At least 45 countries are paying more than 15 percent of their annual budgets on debt, and debt payments are growing to consume more o...
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Orbis Books: Dorothy Day

By Robert Ellsberg | March 3, 2025
It is 50 years since I met Dorothy Day, when I took a leave from college at 19 to work with her at the Catholic Worker in New York. Within months she appointed me managing editor of her newspaper, thus pointing me in the direction of my life’s work — not just as an editor, but as her editor. Having edited five previous volumes of her writings, ...
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Prayer for Vocations, Spring 2025

By Dae Kim, M.M. | March 3, 2025
Oh Invigorating and Inspiring God, My heart is restless seeing so many people suffer around the world.Yet my heart rejoices in seeing your Church renewed in its missionTo all people, especially those who feel abandoned from your love. We are thankful for your Son, Jesus Christ, who has shown usThe path to authentic love for all humanity — an exem...
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God Walks with Migrant Farmworkers

By Leonel Yoque | March 3, 2025
José López, director of Migrant Ministry for the Diocese of Stockton, California, is a beacon of hope for thousands of farmworkers who work in the fields. Most of the workers obtain the H-2A visa that allows foreigners to enter the United States for temporary or seasonal agricultural work. Other migrants do not have such immigration status. “We...
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Spirit of Mission: Christ Our Light

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | March 3, 2025
In the Book of Genesis, the first thing God creates is light. Not so God can see, but rather so that we can. The Bible and all of Creation will reveal God. Light illumines everything. Without it, nothing is visible. Yet light itself is invisible! It must be reflected off of something. But for the full miracle of light to be experienced, one more th...
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Vatican II at 60: Maryknoll Bishops at the Council

By James H. Kroeger, M.M. | March 3, 2025
Truly, a challenging task! How does one adequately capture the participation of the 14 Maryknoll bishops who attended the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965)? A simple glimpse of the group photograph begins the story. Bishop John W. Comber, who was Maryknoll superior general at the time of Vatican II, attended all four sessions of the Council. He wa...
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Spoons and a Spinning Top

By Deirdre Cornell | March 3, 2025
Maryknoll Brother Joseph Bruener remembers the day that Daniel arrived at the San Martín-San Vicente home for boys in Cochabamba, Bolivia. “His arms and legs were like little sticks, and his hair was falling out,” the missioner says. The child was so malnourished he was almost bald. Asked his age, Daniel lies that he is 5 — but in reality, h...
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Sharing Jesus’ Heart

By Jennifer Tomshack | March 3, 2025
Compassion compelled Jesus to act, and the same is true for missioners, said Father Juan Zúñiga, secretary general of the Maryknoll Society, who presided over the Covenant and Sending Mass for the latest Maryknoll lay missioners to answer the call to serve abroad. Joshua Sisolak and Marjorie Humphrey were sent forth to Bolivia and East Africa res...
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A Tribute to Gustavo Gutiérrez

By Robert Ellsberg | March 3, 2025
With the passing of Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, who died in October at the age of 96, the Church has lost a prophet and groundbreaking theologian who substantially enlarged its social teaching. The poor of the world have lost an advocate. And Maryknoll has lost a great friend. Father Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest who studied in France, was...
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A Maryknoll Heart Beats in Kowloon

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | March 3, 2025
As Maryknoll Sister Susan Glass ambles down the sunny corridors of Maryknoll Convent School, throngs of little girls in light blue or orange uniforms greet her with shouts of joy and a collective hug. The school marked its anniversary on Feb. 11, celebrating a century of affordable, quality education for Hong Kong students and instilling in multipl...
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