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Magazine

Winter 2026

From the Editor: Winter 2026

By Lynn F. Monahan | December 1, 2025
Immigration — and what is happening right now to immigrants in our country — is something we simply cannot be silent about. We received various letters and comments on my interview with Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, in our Fall issue of Maryknoll, and some of them, both pro and con, are printed in our Readers’ Responses. Immigration...
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Missioner Tales, Winter 2026

By Missioner Tales | December 1, 2025
In Kenya, where I am serving as a Maryknoll lay missioner in the HOPE Project, I met a widow named Lucy. After the death of her husband in 2020, Lucy was left to care for three children with barely any means. Her youngest son, Athman, is now 13 years old but is only in sixth grade. He fell behind because he was in and out of school, depending on wh...
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Remembering the Martyrs

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 1, 2025
A journalist uncovers new information in the murders of four churchwomen, including two Maryknoll sisters, in El Salvador. For those of us who went to Central America as young reporters in the late 1970s, as bloody civil wars were erupting in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, one of the biggest challenges was to find some fixed compass amid alm...
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‘Guard This Treasure’

By Deirdre Cornell | December 1, 2025
A Maryknoll priest spends a lifetime in mission accompanying the people of El Salvador and honoring their martyrs. In the city of San Salvador, a street mural portrays a memorable Mass. One side of the painted altar shows images of devastation. On the other, vivid colors bring to life a thriving community. A quote on the altar cloth reads, “Guard...
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Flowers from Tanzania

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | December 1, 2025
On June 22, the Maryknoll Sisters Center stirred with joy as Felista Wanzagi and Esther Warioba made their final vows at the Annunciation Chapel in Ossining, New York. To the tune of a song in Swahili, Sisters Wanzagi and Warioba processed to the altar, adorned with Hawaiian garlands and wearing dresses that represented their mission journeys. Sist...
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Pope Leo’s Wisdom for Seminarians

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 1, 2025
A Maryknoll seminarian reflects on his visit to the Vatican for the Jubilee of Seminarians. I am grateful that I was able to attend the Jubilee of Seminarians, along with my fellow Maryknoll seminarian Samuel Mutuku, last June 23 and 24. Rome’s summer heat was unmerciful, but fortunately most events were held indoors. The main gathering was the m...
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Fishing for Justice in Taiwan

By Paul Jeffrey | December 1, 2025
Gerald Mustago left his home in the Philippines eight years ago to become a fisher in Taiwan, home to the world’s second largest deep-sea fishing fleet. “I couldn’t make enough money to support my wife and children, so I came here to work on the fishing boats,” he says. Every month he sends a few hundred dollars home to his wife and two chi...
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The Darkness of This Time

By Catherine DeVito, M.M. | December 1, 2025
My commute each morning begins before dawn. Usually I welcome the darkness, which provides coolness, stillness and time for reflection. I make my way to the clinic where I work supporting at-risk moms and babies in a rural, underserved, predominantly migrant farmworker town in Southwest Florida. The people we serve are mostly from Central America a...
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God, Present in My Journey

By Leonel Yoque | December 1, 2025
A Maryknoll missionary disciple reflects on his story of migration and service. One day while I was studying law at the University of San Carlos in my native Guatemala, there was an evacuation order during final exams due to a bomb threat. Everyone left the building in dismay. Days later, 10 student leaders were kidnapped. Five were murdered and th...
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Mango Tree Cathedrals in Uganda

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 1, 2025
Maryknoll lay missioners in East Africa lead a course in nonviolence and conflict resolution. Joanne Blaney and I, Maryknoll lay missioners, were invited to Northern Uganda last year by the Archdiocese of Gulu. Much of our work took place in the shade of huge, leafy mango trees laden with ripening fruit. The Gulu area is largely populated by a...
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Spirit of Mission: Great Bridge to Unity

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | December 1, 2025
Last May 8 is destined to become one of those “Where were you when ... ?” moments. As white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and joy erupted at the words Habemus papam! I was sitting outside having lunch when Maryknoll’s bells joined the chorus ringing out from churches around the world. We had an hour to wait to learn who would be the 267t...
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Prayer for Vocations, Winter 2026

By Dionel Rodriguez | December 1, 2025
In Challenging Times Dear God, in the midst of a noisy world I come before you seeking the silence to hear your voice. It is so easy to be distracted by daily headlines, the internet, phone calls and messages and all my comings and goings. In my heart I yearn for the peace and quiet to converse with you, to hear your voice alone. I know that it is ...
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Orbis Books: Thomas Berry: A Book of Hours

By Robert Ellsberg | December 1, 2025
“We come here to begin to relieve an ancient wrong. We wish especially to restore to this Earth its ancient joy. For while much of what we have done is beyond healing, there is a resilience throughout the land that only awaits its opportunity to flourish once again with something of its ancient splendor.”   — Thomas Berry The work o...
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