Huerta’s lack of recognition is certainly not due to a lack of proximity to power; she stood alongside giants of American history.
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Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The U.S. Catholic experience is increasingly Hispanic and Southwestern
Back in 1991, close to nine in 10 Catholics in the United States were white. Today, that number is down to 55 percent—and that percentage will continue to drop.
Posted inArts & Culture
Santa Fe: a powerful metaphor for the Latino church in the United States
Latin American towns, like their exemplars in Spain, reflect in their organization the way the inhabitants lived together as a people.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio is part of a long history of discrimination
The sheriff is the personification of law enforcement behaving lawlessly.
Posted inFaith, News
The next bishop of Raleigh is from Latin America—like many in his flock
To say that Hispanics in the diocese take pride in their newly appointed bishop is an understatement.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
50 years ago a man told my mother, “Go home, spic.” Would that happen today?
I want to believe things are better now for immigrants, but I fear things are getting worse.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Junot Díaz talks Dominican identity, immigration and the (complicated) American Dream
The American dream is at the center of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
New data suggest Clinton, not Trump, won Catholic vote
Clinton may have narrowly won the Catholic vote, but there were huge differences between Hispanics and non-Hispanics.
Posted inFaith, News
Report commissioned by bishops finds diversity abounds in U.S. church
Catholic institutions and ministries need to adapt and prepare for growing diversity.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
On the U.S.-Mexico border, Catholics get out the vote
“Hispanics in this area have not always felt that their voices have been recognized or heard…the push is, if we don’t vote, we will remain invisible.”