We asked our readers: In what ways is the church helping Latinos live out their faith in this country?
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Posted inFaith, Features
With a church in crisis, why do Catholic women stay?
In many corners of the church, women are not treated with equal dignity and worth. Too often, the structures of the Catholic Church show little openness to meaningful transformation. But our church’s lack of insight, and the breakdown of our own self-monitoring systems, are curable.
Posted inFaith, Politics & Society
What is the Catholic response to immigration?
Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller delivers a Catholic response to the issue of immigration at the Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio, Texas.
Posted inFaith, Politics & Society
A conversation and a Catholic “wishlist” for immigration reform
Archbishop García-Siller keynoted “The Church in America: A Conversation on Immigration,” an event co-sponsored by America Media and the Mexican American Catholic College. Norma Pimentel, M.J., executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and Sean Carroll, S.J., executive director of the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Ariz., were respondents to the archbishop’s keynote.
Posted inFaith, Features
Why Dioceses Need to Support Struggling Latino Churches
Promising demographic data can easily be interpreted in a way that overlooks the textured history of Latino Catholics in the United States, one in which the very existence of Latino church communities has often come under threat.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A church of stories, a story of church
Natalia Imperatori-Lee draws upon a variety of sources to develop an ecclesiology that is shaped by narratives as much as dogmatic theology.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
V Encuentro national gathering focuses on young Latino Catholics
“Young Latinos are engaged. They are open to giving of themselves,” Archbishop José Gomez said. “We need to be more conscious of ministries for young Catholics.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Catholic schools challenged by changing demographics
Only about 8 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are Hispanic, compared with 17 percent of students. Low salaries and a weak professional pipeline make it difficult to diversify the teaching staff.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
More than 3,000 Latino Catholics expected at Encuentro gathering
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.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
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.”