Summer 2025

Statement from the Maryknoll Superior General

By Lance Nadeau, M.M. | June 2, 2025

This is a time of tremendous change and uncertainty. For many people the ground is shifting beneath their feet. So many in our world are suddenly more vulnerable, more worried, more anxious about the time to come. The Church itself is undergoing a transition with the loss of our beloved Pope Francis. Here in the United States, we cannot forget the ...

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...

Poem: A Migrant’s Trail

By Richard Dixon | June 2, 2025

In this moving poem, Maryknoll Lay Missioner Rick Dixon follows one migrant’s trail to its tragic end, a grave marker in a potter’s field. She’s knocking on the door of light one more time,and one more time it opens only to darkness.There are shadows lying across the land,but she knows the desert has two faces,the terror of death and the trea...

Partners in Mission: A Faith of Our Own

By Michael Ho | June 2, 2025

Growing up as a Korean American Catholic isn’t easy. In addition to the usual challenges children face, like making friends and doing well in school, many of us born into immigrant families also struggle to learn our parents’ language. For me, that meant there were things we weren’t fully able to share, and one of those was our Catholic faith...

World Watch: Climate Action Must Continue

By Thomas Gould | June 2, 2025

This year marks a significant crossroads for global climate action. On the first day of his second term, President Trump issued an executive order withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. Since 2016, the agreement has sought to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The withdrawa...

Maryknoll Seminarians Patrick Okok and Matthew Sim

Serving a Joyful Community

By Giovana Soria | June 2, 2025

For Maryknoll Seminarians Patrick Okok and Matthew Sim, the road to lifelong mission has been marked by joy and humility. The deacons, who will be ordained to the priesthood on June 7, have been trained for ministry in vibrant faith communities across the globe. Okok, from Kenya, and Sim, from Singapore, currently assist at St. Benedict the African...

2024 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest Winners

By Maryknoll Press | June 2, 2025

For the Jubilee Year, Pope Francis has invited us to become “pilgrims of hope.” Students were asked to share a personal story about a time when hope played an important role in their lives, and what they learned about hope from this experience. We received submissions in two divisions (grades 6-8 and grades 9-12) from students currently enrolle...

Spirit of Mission: Too Many Saviors?

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | June 2, 2025

Let’s be blunt about it. We see many Christians today flooding the news and social media with interpretations of Christianity that directly contradict Jesus’ teachings and proclaim other saviors of Western civilization. The late Irish actor Richard Harris grappled with a similar situation in his poem titled “There Are Too Many Saviors on My C...

Vatican II at 60: A Marvelous Mission Awakening

By James H. Kroeger, M.M. | June 2, 2025

As the Church celebrates the 60th anniversary (1965-2025) of Ad Gentes (For all Peoples), the Vatican II document on mission, it is enlightening to recall the evolution and subsequent impact of this pivotal document; one discovers a truly interesting and dramatic story! During the third session of the Council, the task of preparing a working docume...

Fifty Years of Sharing Hope

By Jennifer Tomshack | June 2, 2025

This August, Maryknoll Lay Missioners will celebrate its 50th anniversary — a milestone that recognizes half a century of service and solidarity with those at the margins. Since its founding in 1975, the lay mission organization has been committed to responding to the Gospel call to live and work with people in need across the globe. This golden ...

Contributing to God’s Reign in Guatemala

By Deirdre Cornell | June 2, 2025

Growing up, Mary Lou Daoust always knew that she would become a doctor. The Detroit native never imagined that one day she would serve some of Guatemala’s poorest communities. The road to mission, for Sister Daoust, started with her medical residency at the University of Miami hospitals. “I became interested in working with patients of other cu...

Acts of Humanity in Guatemala

By Giovana Soria | June 2, 2025

A few months ago, a 50-year-old Venezuelan woman named María arrived at Casa del Migrante, a shelter run by Scalabrini missionaries in Guatemala City. Every day, the shelter takes in nearly 30 people in transit who, like María, seek refuge, food and protection. María (not her real name) said that she had decided to migrate to the United States o...

Charity that Strives for Diginity

By John Siyumbu M.M. | June 2, 2025

Spend time with Emmanuel Boniface and you’ll hear a lot about his favorite soccer team. Emmanuel is an ardent fan of Yanga, the Young Africans Sports Club of Tanzania. He does not let his difficulties with speech get in the way of a good conversation. Emmanuel has a way of speaking to your heart, and his eagerness draws you in. I met Emmanuel and...

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