“Maryknoll is the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America and when we were founded the idea was to go to other countries for conversion, for change, and now we realize that the world is much more of a global reality, it’s more ‘one,’” said Father Paul Masson, assistant general of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers General Council. “One of the major realities is that if we look at salvation and a decent life then we have to take into consideration the Earth.”