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At the structural level, Hispanic immigrants are an increasingly important chunk of America’s Catholic population. Today, roughly one-third of the 70 million Catholics in America are Hispanic, and that share is destined to rise. Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum, calls this the “browning of American Catholicism.” What’s happening in the United States reflects global realities. Two-thirds of the 1.2 billion Catholics in the world now live outside the West, and the church’s most rapid growth is coming in places that also generate a disproportionate share of the world’s migrants and refugees, such as sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia. For Catholicism, immigration isn’t just a matter of humanitarian concern. Increasingly, it’s also about taking care of the church’s own.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 01:33:19 +0000

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