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- Aug 3, 2020
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Why polarization threatens the future for Hispanic Catholics
- Mar 2, 2017
Hosffman Ospino of Boston College reminds American Catholics “that 60 percent of U.S. Catholics younger than eighteen are Hispanic. This is not a number that we can afford to ignore as a church! If we do the math, just in a few years, the majority of Catholics in the United States will share a Hispanic background. They will be writing the next chapter of the history of U.S. Catholicism, but they will not—and should not—do it alone.”
Love, support for immigrants follow group’s verbal attacks on Massgoers
- Feb 8, 2017
After eight men dressed like hunters walked in during Spanish Mass at St. Peter Church in Southeast Portland and accused the mostly immigrant worshippers of not being true Christians, 300 people formed a human shield in front of the church the following Sunday to show love and support.
Thousands gather for Walk With Mary in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Dec 13, 2016
On Saturday, December 10, hundreds of pilgrims walked a procession in honor of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe carrying images of Mary. The feast brings together people of all ages and backgrounds, but it is a particularly special event for the Hispanic Catholic community.
Study says more than half of young U.S. Catholics are Hispanic/Latino
- Nov 17, 2016
A new study from the U.S. bishops found that three-quarters of those U.S. Catholics born before Vatican II are non-Hispanic white Catholics. And more than half, 54 percent, of what it calls the millennial-generation Catholics (born 1982 or later) are Hispanic or Latino.
Gomez says win not about Trump or Francis, but Hispanics
- Nov 15, 2016
Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles says reading his election as vice president of the U.S. bishops’ conference as a referendum on either Donald Trump or Pope Francis is wrong. Instead, he said, it’s a statement about the Hispanic presence in the United States and in the American Catholic church.
White and Latino Catholics deeply divided in 2016, panel says
- Oct 31, 2016
Delve into the poll numbers, and trends emerge that speak to the future of Catholic voting in the U.S. While white Catholics favor Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton 48 to 41 percent in a recent PRRI poll, the opposite is true of non-white Catholics, the vast majority of whom are Latino. Those non-white Catholics choose Clinton over Trump 78 to 17 percent.
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