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Summer 2024

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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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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Missioner Tales, Summer 2024

By Missioner Tales | June 3, 2024
At the United States-Mexico border where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner, an Annunciation House shelter for asylum seekers was in full swing. At the time, the shelter was welcoming 15 to 60 guests per day. The majority of arrivals were families. I especially got to know a single mom with three children ages 1 to 7. The youngest son was a toddl...
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