Site Under Construction

This site is still being polished, especially on mobile and smaller screens. Some things may not look perfect just yet.

Magazine

Winter 2025

Various images from the Winter 2025 issue of Maryknoll Magazine

From the Editor: Jubilee of Hope

By Lynn F. Monahan | December 2, 2024
In announcing the Jubilee 2025, which begins on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis proclaimed hope as the central message of the year. Under the title “Hope Does Not Disappoint,” taken from the writings of Saint Paul, the papal bull is a treatise on hope. From the time of the early Church until Vatican II and into the present, the Church offers to the...
Read More
A laughing child carries a parcel on their head

Missioner Tales, Winter 2025

By Missioner Tales | December 2, 2024
Missioners share vignettes drawn from mission life in Ireland, South Sudan, Bolivia and at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read More
Maryknoll Father Paul Sykora, shown with pupils and facilitators at a tutoring center on a mountainside in Cochabamba, Bolivia, is the heart of Maryknoll’s Apoyo Escolar program. (Adam Mitchell/Bolivia)

From South Dakota to Zona Sur

By Deirdre Cornell | December 2, 2024
A resourceful Maryknoll priest, Father Paul Sykora, supports an education project for children in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Read More
Maryknoll Sister Chiyoung Pak (first row, seventh from left) and members of the Norton Center in Zimbabwe have found a place to call home. (Courtesy of Chiyoung Pak/Zimbabwe)

Sharing Light in a Circle of Life

By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. | December 2, 2024
Maryknoll Sister Chiyoung Pak brings joy and hope to a poor area of Zimbabwe through the Norton Center she founded, serving youth and adults.
Read More
Mary and Joseph make their way to Bethlehem to register for the census. (iStock)

Finding Christ in Our Humanness

By John McAuley, M.M. | December 2, 2024
Maryknoll Father John McAuley’s poignant Christmas reflection offers a fresh perspective on the humanness of the Holy Family.
Read More
Maryknoll Father Raymond Finch and Matachines dancers pose at Cristo Rey Church in El Paso, Texas, on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, celebrated Dec. 12. (Matthew Sim/U.S.)

An Oasis in the Borderlands

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | December 2, 2024
At Cristo Rey Parish in El Paso, Texas, Maryknoll Father Raymond Finch helps parishioners live their faith while they help migrants.
Read More
Suspected gang members are arrested in San Salvador, El Salvador. (CNS/José Cabezas/Reuters/El Salvador)

Love Exists in Tonacatepeque

By Deirdre Cornell | December 2, 2024
A Maryknoll lay missioner serves in prison ministry for youth in El Salvador, the country with the world’s highest incarceration rate.
Read More
An image of the book, "Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty"

Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty

By Robert Ellsberg | December 2, 2024
Orbis Publisher Robert Ellsberg previews Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty on the contemplative life by the late Benedictine Sister Mary Lou Kownacki.
Read More
Maryknoll Father Charles Ogony celebrates his first Mass using a chalice and paten gifted to him by the Lafferty family, fulfilling their parents’ last wish. (Octavio Durán/U.S.)

Partners in Mission: Love Lives On

By Giovana Soria | December 2, 2024
Maureen Long recalled her parents’ last wish. Francis and Patricia Lafferty wanted their wedding rings to become part of a sacred symbol.
Read More
left-space-line Separator Icon right-space-line