The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers Mission Education and Promotion program sent 11 pilgrims on a week-long immersion trip to Montego Bay in April, posing the question, “Will you find God in Jamaica?”
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Category: Adventures in Mission
Thankful For Diocesan Roots
When Father Bill Galvin joined the Maryknoll Fathers in 1955, he wanted to be a missionary in China. But it wasn’t until 1999 that he finally arrived in the mainland Asian country, after assignments in the Philippines, Nepal and the Holy Land.
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Cause for Bishop Ford’s Sainthood Moves Slowly
Someday, the late Bishop Francis X. Ford will be declared a saint, but no one thinks it will happen soon.
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From Washington to Bolivia: Trumbull native shares journey of helping others
By Steve Coulter, Trumbull Times Politics can be a lot more than banter, dissent, and gridlock; at its best, government can serve as a soundboard for people who want their voices to be heard — an outlet for individual frustration and a platform for reassurance. That’s what Trumbull resident Kyle Cannone learned interning at the […]
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Bishop Francis X. Ford’s Story Told In New Catholic Almanac
The recently published book, The American Catholic Almanac, is a daily reader about Catholic Americans who helped shape the history of the United States. Within its pages are brief stories about Buffalo Bill Cody, John F. Kennedy, Vince Lombardi and many others. Maryknoll, too, is included, represented by Bishop Francis X. Ford.
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U.S. missionary visits North Korea as silent ‘apostle of peace’
Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, no Catholic priest has resided in the North of this divided peninsula, where autonomous religious activity is effectively forbidden. And no enemy of the communist regime there is more detested or fiercely denounced than the United States.
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A Hospital Bedside Marriage
I had been away from Tanzania for one month enjoying a vacation with family at home. The highlight of the vacation was presiding at the marriage ceremony for my niece. Joined by more than 200 guests, it was a great occasion for family and friends at a beautiful church and reception hall in New Jersey. […]
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Father Bob McCahill’s Annual Letter From Mission
For many years, Maryknoll’s Father Bob McCahill has been sending an annual letter to friends in which he chronicles his experience living among the people of Bangladesh. The following is an edited version of his letter received at the completion of 2013.
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Greenville native ‘joyfully bears the cross’ after 43 years as Maryknoll priest
Fr. James Kroeger enjoys life of Maryknoll missionary
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Maryknoll’s Summer Mission Immersion To Guatemala
A delegation from the Diocese of Oakland, along with people from Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, joined Maryknoll in the summer of 2013.
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