Resources
Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Stephen Veryser discusses the virtue of humility and how it helps us live in right relationship with God. I have only been truly unemployed once in my career. I look back on the eight months I was ‘between jobs’ with gratefulness now, though at the time, with a young family, it was…
July – August 2026
Vol. 51, No. 4. A bi-monthly newsletter on international justice and peace issues.
Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Lay Missioner James Pawlowicz discusses the hope and a better path revealed in the Gospel, and how its message speaks to earthly violence and injustice, including domestic violence. As I’ve been learning and asking questions about Brazil, the mission country in which I arrived this February, one of the issues that has come up repeatedly is domestic violence. I was surprised…
Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
Maryknoll Sister Nonie Gutzler reflects on lessons from the lives of Saints Peter and Paul for the Church’s ongoing relationship with diversity and complexity in a multifaith world. This Feast of Saints Peter and Paul has the potential to draw us into the diversity and complexity that characterized leadership in the early Church, which is…
Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Father James H. Kroeger reflects on the true cost of discipleship for Christians. Being Jesus’ disciple demands asking many deep, disturbing questions: Why do I do certain things? Who and what guide my choices? Family? Friends? Desire of possessions? Status in the community? Personal pleasure? Service of others? Love of God? Indeed, Jesus’ words…
Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Debbie Northern reflects on the dignity owed but denied migrants at the U.S./Mexico border
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Heidi Cerneka reflects on Jesus as our shepherd, and people serving as imperfect shepherds among us in today’s unjust world. Lately, I’ve been feeling pretty troubled and abandoned, as I consider the state of our world with violence, greed, environmental exploitation, and the horrific maldistribution of wealth. But here Jesus says “like”…
Webinar: Faith Leaders Summit Dialogue Session #3
The Faith Leaders Summit Dialogue Session #3, hosted by Pax Christi New England Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (PCAN). Inspired by the leadership of Archbishop John Wester, who published a seminal pastoral letter over four years ago and has organized the Partnership for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, PCAN (the Pax Christi New England Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) organized…
Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
Susan Gunn, MOGC Director, shares about her visit to the East Deanery AIDS Relief Program in Nairobi and how it illustrates that the Eucharist inspires solidarity with those on the margins. When I traveled to Kenya recently, the Maryknoll missioners there made sure I visited families living on the margins of Nairobi, in arguably some of the most desperate slums in the world. Like…
Webinar: Report Back: Outcome from the First Fossil Fuel Phase Out Conference
Report Back: Outcome from the First Fossil Fuel Phase Out Conference, hosted by the Dominican Sisters International Lisa Sullivan, Maryknoll Office for Global Concern’s Integral Ecology senior program officer, presented at “Report Back: Outcome from the First Fossil Fuel Phase Out Conference”. Watch the recording of the webinar on May 28, 2026, to learn more…
Ten Beautiful Quotes in Magnifica Humanitas
Within the many pages of Pope Leo’s encyclical on artificial intelligence, the Holy Father offers a heartfelt apology and beautiful reflections that center the human experience in his call for a global response to the threat of an unregulated digital world. Pope Leo XIV released a new encyclical, or pastoral letter, on May 25, entitled…
Trinity Sunday
Maryknoll Sister Nancy Connor reflects on Bolivia’s vibrant Holy Trinity celebration, and the significance of the Trinity in our lives. During the four decades that I lived in the City of La Paz, Bolivia, I never really got used to the customs surrounding the feast of the Holy Trinity. Would you believe that the whole…
