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Magazine

Summer 2024

Various images from the Summer 2024 issue of Maryknoll Magazine

From the Editor: Going Forth in Mission

By Lynn F. Monahan | June 3, 2024
In each issue of our quarterly magazine, we include a recurring theme that dovetails with the work of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers education program Discover Your Neighbor. The theme for the Summer issue is “Going Forth.” As a mission movement, that is certainly what Maryknoll does, all year long. Our cover story epitomizes this mission s...
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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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John Gauker delights in his children, Monica and Johnny; Phyllis is embraced by a woman who whispers, “I am a widow, too;” a photo shows the Gaukers and Maryknoll Father William Woods on the day of Monica’s baptism; construction workers attend a Mass for John. (Courtesy of Phyllis Gauker/Guatemala)

Martyrs of the Ixcán

By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds | June 3, 2024
Almost 50 years ago, lay missioner John Gauker died with Maryknoll Father Bill Woods in a suspicious plane crash in Guatemala’s Ixcán jungle.
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A desert landscape of dunes reaching to the horizon

Orbis Books: Soul Brothers

By Robert Ellsberg | June 3, 2024
Soul Brothers: Men in the Bible Speak to Men Today, by Richard Rohr, is featured in a preview in Maryknoll magazine Summer 2024.
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