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Magazine

Summer 2025

Various images from the Summer 2025 issue of Maryknoll Magazine

From the Editor: Legacy of Hope

By Lynn F. Monahan | June 2, 2025
As we were preparing to send this issue of Maryknoll magazine to the printer in April, we received the sad news of the passing of our beloved Pope Francis. As soon as he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis signaled a different approach to the papacy. As one colleague here at Maryknoll put it, “We finally have a pope who speaks our language.” By t...
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Maryknoll seminarians Deacons Matthew Sim and Patrick Okok (left, right) will be ordained June 7. As part of his formation, Sim served at Cristo Rey Church in El Paso, Texas. (Matthew Sim/U.S.)

Serving a Joyful Community

By Giovana Soria | June 2, 2025
Two Maryknoll Seminarians Patrick Okok and Matthew Sim preparing for ordination bring mission experience to a Chicago parish.
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Albentina Mhoni Mnyama, her son Emmanuel and Maryknoll Father John Siyumbu collaborated with other members of their parish, Church of the Transfiguration in Mabatini, to improve Emmanuel’s quality of life. (Courtesy of John Siyumbu/Tanzania)

Charity that Strives for Diginity

By John Siyumbu M.M. | June 2, 2025
A young Maryknoll priest describes a collaborative mission in Tanzania to help Emmanuel, a 29-year-old living with disabilities in Mabatini.
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Guatemalan migrants deported from the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s administration arrive at La Aurora Air Base in Guatemala City on January 27, 2025. (OSV, Cristina Chiquin, Reuters/Guatemala)

Acts of Humanity in Guatemala

By Giovana Soria | June 2, 2025
Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter run by Scalabrini missionaries in Guatemala City, welcomes deported migrants from the United States.
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Maryknoll Lay Missioner Dee Dungy, who joined the lay mission organization in 2011, served on a pastoral team visiting the elderly and infirm in the slum of Anlong Kngan, a community of displaced people outside the capital city of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. She now serves refugees in Kenya. (Sean Sprague/Cambodia)

Fifty Years of Sharing Hope

By Jennifer Tomshack | June 2, 2025
Celebrating a milestone anniversary, Maryknoll Lay Missioners (MKLM) honors an inspiring past, a compelling present and a strong future.
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Dusk falls on Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, where a 14-member volunteer team made up mostly of Jesuit seminarians and priests carried out a search and rescue mission Dec. 20-22, 2024, to look for missing or dead migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. OSV News/Courtesy of Luke Taylor)

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.
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