Immorality destroys the Gospel; sin—yours and mine—is precisely what puts people in the field hospital to begin with.

People and cheered Pope Francis everywhere he went on this last day of his visit.

During the middle decades of the 20th century one of the best known Maryknoll priests in the United States was John J Considine who was widely admired for his books lectures and editorial supervision of Maryknoll rsquo s superlative mission magazine The Field Afar In 1963 Maryknoll rsquo s su

For many Catholics, the word missionary brings to mind a centuries-old image of a priest planting a cross in a foreign land and teaching, baptizing and celebrating Mass for its people. Or it may conjure up the slightly more modern image of women religious running a school in Africa or Latin America.