Lenten Reflection Guide 2025: Jubilee of Hope

Lenten Reflection Guide 2025: Jubilee of Hope

Join us for prayer this Lent with reflections on the readings from Ash Wednesday, March 5, through Palm Sunday, April 13. The 2025 Lenten Reflection Guide: Jubilee of Hope from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns contains reflections, questions, prayers, fasts, and actions based on each week’s Gospel reading and the experience of Maryknoll missioners…

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Trump Administration Urging Renewal of Refugee Resettlement

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Trump Administration Urging Renewal of Refugee Resettlement

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 1,051 faith leaderss and 176 organizations in writing to the Trump Administration asking for the resumption of refugee resettlement, restoration of humanitarian assistance, and assurance that the faith community can take care of newcomers according to their traditions. Read the letter as a PDF. February 13, 2025 Dear President…

Letter of the Holy Father Francis to the Bishops of the United States

Letter of the Holy Father Francis to the Bishops of the United States

Pope Francis addresses U.S. bishops, urging them to uphold the dignity of migrants. He criticizes policies that equate illegal status with criminality while acknowledging a nation’s right to security and calls for compassion, integration, and respect for fundamental rights. Read the letter as a PDF and on the Vatican website. February 10, 2025 Dear Brothers…

Maryknoll Missioner Speaks Out for PEPFAR in New York Times

Maryknoll Missioner Speaks Out for PEPFAR in New York Times

Sept. 5, 2023 Be sure to read Maryknoll Fr. Rick Bauer’s guest opinion piece in The New York Times about witnessing lives saved from HIV/AIDS in Africa thanks to access to treatment and prevention generously given by the United States over the last twenty years through a program called PEPFAR. “As a pro-life man of faith, I…

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Responds to Trump Day One Executive Orders

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Responds to Trump Day One Executive Orders

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the executive orders signed by President Trump on the first day of his second term, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns offered the following statement from its director, Susan Gunn. “The executive orders signed by President Trump make us ask how will the…

USCCB Statement of Solidarity with Immigrants

USCCB Statement of Solidarity with Immigrants

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, USCCB president, Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the Committee on Migration, and Bishop Jaime Soto, chair of Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., issued a statement of pastoral concern on November 14, 2024. The following article was published in the January – February 2025 issue of NewsNotes. Compelled by the Gospel of Jesus…

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Biden Adminitration for Protections for Haiti and Haitians

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Biden Adminitration for Protections for Haiti and Haitians

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 33 other faith and civil society organizations in a letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris requesting protections for Haiti and Haitians, namely ending the mass deportation of Haitians, stemming the flow of guns to Haiti,  sanctions against the specific individuals responsible for human rights abuses, and encouraging…

Third Sunday of Advent

Third Sunday of Advent

This reflection was originally published in the 2024 Advent Reflection Guide: One Family of God. God indeed is my salvation; I am confident and unafraid. ISAIAH 12:2 What should we do? A people “filled with expectation” pose this question to John the Baptist. How often do our own hearts burn with the same question? Look…

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Senator Rubio Regarding Sudan Crisis

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Senator Rubio Regarding Sudan Crisis

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined thirty faith and civil society groups in a letter to Senator Marco Rubio, Trump nominee for Secretary of Sate, requesting he prioritize ending the Sudan crisis through diplomatic efforts, appointing a special envoy, support for local aid providers, and support for atrocity documentation. Read as a PDF. December 5,…

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Congress Requesting a Reauthorization of PEPFAR

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Congress Requesting a Reauthorization of PEPFAR

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns was among over thirty civil society and faith organizations calling on members of the Senate and House committees on foreign affairs to pass a “clean” five-year renewal of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Read letters to House and Senate committees as a PDF. Dec. 2, 2024 Dear Chairman/Ranking…

Second Sunday of Advent

Second Sunday of Advent

This reflection was originally published in the 2024 Advent Reflection Guide: One Family of God. A voice of one crying out in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight God’s paths… Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one crying out in the desert… What is the prophet Isaiah trying to say to his…

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Pres. Biden Calling for Funding of UNWRA

Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Pres. Biden Calling for Funding of UNWRA

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined over a hundred civil society and faith based organizations  in a letter to President Biden in support of restoration of United States funding of the United Nations Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Read the letter as a PDF. September 23, 2024 Dear Mr. President: We, the undersigned 104 civil…

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

In the midst of a history of suffering, Saint Oscar Romero lived and shared with the poor his unshakeable faith in the Lord of Life, the hope of seeing in El Salvador the Christian reality of new heavens and a new earth, and a charity not simply announced, but embodied in the fate of the…