Encuentro, which means “Encounter,” is an initiative from the U.S. bishops that seeks to better serve the growing Latin American community and will continue through 2020.
J.D. Long García
J.D. Long García is a senior editor at Americaand co-author of Clericalism: The Institutional Dimension of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis.
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We cannot let the sexual abuse crisis lead us into homophobia
Some Catholics would like to exploit the crisis to promote anti-L.G.B.T. agendas. We cannot stand for it.
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How Latinas help Medellín continue to form the church in the United States
Inspired by Medellín, María del Carmen Moncayo de Villaseñor and María Luisa Arroyo de Ramírez founded the association in Mexico City in 1973.
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Immigration and the politicization of Mollie Tibbetts’s murder
“The president has turned immigration into simply good people, bad people and a wall.”
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How a city and church in Texas are rebuilding one year after Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey took a toll on all Houstonians—rich and poor, white and brown, city and suburb—but this boomtown proud of its diversity is getting back on track.
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Jesuit priest murdered in Peru
Carlos Riudavets Montes, S.J. worked among the indigenous in Perú’s Amazonian region.
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Is there a sexual abuse reckoning coming for the Latino church?
“For Hispanics, whatever the priest says goes. But that’s not right. The priest is not God. Nobody is above God.”
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Hundreds of children remain separated from their parents after family reunification deadline passes
An estimated 463 parents have already been deported, further complicating the family reunification effort.
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What’s behind the Latino priest shortage?
While discernment is never easy, it was even more complicated as a Latino.
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Church leaders told John Kelly child separation was “contrary to our Catholic values” a year ago
The private letter, sent more than a year ago, may have had changed Mr. Kelly’s mind for a time.