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Winter 2024

They Call Her ‘Foreign Grandmother’

By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. | December 4, 2023
At 51, Maryknoll Sister Hyunjung Kim is both youthful-looking and committed to religious life. Yet, in East Timor — a small nation on the island of Timor, north of Australia — people address Sister Hyunjung as a grandparent. “They call me Avo Malae,” she says. “Foreign Grandmother!” A social worker by profession, Sister Hyunjung has ser...
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World Youth Day 2023: Voices of Pilgrims

By Giovana Soria | December 4, 2023
Maryknoll Father Rodrigo Ulloa-Chavarry and Maryknoll mission education promoter Sarahi Unzueta accompanied young Catholics from the United States during the World Youth Day gathering in Lisbon, Portugal. Here we share the testimonials of some pilgrims. (Conversations have been edited and condensed for clarity.) To learn more about WYD 2023, read t...
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Rising Up at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal

By Giovana Soria | December 4, 2023
For Juan Alvarez, a pilgrim from Texas who attended World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, it was a blessing to receive the Eucharist every day with Maryknoll Father Rodrigo Ulloa-Chavarry. “He was our shepherd, leader and our guide in everything we did,” Alvarez said. Father Ulloa-Chavarry accompanied Alvarez, 34, and more than 100 other pi...
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Tiny Houses Make Huge Impact

Tiny Houses Make Huge Impact

By Paul Bork | December 4, 2023
St. Mary Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows parish in Kitchener, Ontario, is an example of what Pope Francis surely had in mind when he spoke about the Church as a field hospital. Conducting a Maryknoll mission appeal recently at St. Mary’s, I was struck by its vibrantly diverse congregation and beautifully maintained church, located in the heart of d...
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In Step with a Higher Power in Kenya

By Megan Hamilton | December 4, 2023
Along, pot-holed road in Mombasa, Kenya, leads to the Port Reitz Mental Health and Substance Addiction Unit. It’s the gritty, harsh conclusion of many an addiction and mental illness journey — quite literally, the end of the line. On Wednesdays, I take an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting there for a dozen or so patients. (All AA members in this art...
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