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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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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Students from a U.S. Catholic high school participate in a life-changing mission trip to Tanzania
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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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Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers in China hosted visiting seminarians from the Pontifical North American College.
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A Maryknoll Brother joins a Burmese Archbishop in helping refugees made homeless by a cyclone
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Someday, the late Bishop Francis X. Ford will be declared a saint, but no one thinks it will happen soon.
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MALAKAL, South Sudan (CNS) — Behind the blue-helmeted U.N. soldiers ringing the periphery, their tanks and heavy weapons pointed outward, Maryknoll Father Mike Bassano’s parish is a tightly packed maze of tents and tarpaulins filled with people hiding from war.
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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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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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