Timothy Matovina
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691139791
- eISBN:
- 9781400839735
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691139791.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
This concluding chapter considers how Latinos present a distinct agenda of core concerns within U.S. Catholicism. Many Euro-American Catholics have emphasized concerns such as liturgical reform, the ...
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This concluding chapter considers how Latinos present a distinct agenda of core concerns within U.S. Catholicism. Many Euro-American Catholics have emphasized concerns such as liturgical reform, the role of the laity, dissent or obedience to sexual ethics and other church teaching, the proper exercise of authority, and the question of who is called to ordination. Conversely, Latinos have been more inclined to accentuate concerns such as funding for Hispanic ministry offices, youth initiatives, outreach efforts, and leadership training and formation programs. Although these efforts encompass attempts at reform in areas such as liturgy and participation in church leadership, they are primarily intended to equip the church to serve and accompany its Latino members in their faith and daily struggles.Less
This concluding chapter considers how Latinos present a distinct agenda of core concerns within U.S. Catholicism. Many Euro-American Catholics have emphasized concerns such as liturgical reform, the role of the laity, dissent or obedience to sexual ethics and other church teaching, the proper exercise of authority, and the question of who is called to ordination. Conversely, Latinos have been more inclined to accentuate concerns such as funding for Hispanic ministry offices, youth initiatives, outreach efforts, and leadership training and formation programs. Although these efforts encompass attempts at reform in areas such as liturgy and participation in church leadership, they are primarily intended to equip the church to serve and accompany its Latino members in their faith and daily struggles.
Timothy Matovina
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691139791
- eISBN:
- 9781400839735
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691139791.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
Most histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on social issues have dominated public debates. This book provides a comprehensive ...
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Most histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on social issues have dominated public debates. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Latino Catholic experience in America from the sixteenth century to today, and offers the most in-depth examination to date of the important ways the U.S. Catholic Church, its evolving Latino majority, and American culture are mutually transforming one another. This book highlights the vital contributions of Latinos to American religious and social life, demonstrating in particular how their engagement with the U.S. cultural milieu is the most significant factor behind their ecclesial and societal impact.Less
Most histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on social issues have dominated public debates. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Latino Catholic experience in America from the sixteenth century to today, and offers the most in-depth examination to date of the important ways the U.S. Catholic Church, its evolving Latino majority, and American culture are mutually transforming one another. This book highlights the vital contributions of Latinos to American religious and social life, demonstrating in particular how their engagement with the U.S. cultural milieu is the most significant factor behind their ecclesial and societal impact.
Kersten Bayt Priest
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195310566
- eISBN:
- 9780199851072
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310566.003.0016
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter addresses on how Filipinas and Filipinos who comprise the single largest group (40%) slowly moved from peripheral parish involvement into worship leadership, and emerged—within one ...
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This chapter addresses on how Filipinas and Filipinos who comprise the single largest group (40%) slowly moved from peripheral parish involvement into worship leadership, and emerged—within one generation—as a valued distinctive ethnic subgroup in the Catholic church, both locally in Chicago and in its national and worldwide presence. It begins with the situation of St. Ansgar Filipinos within the larger Filipino American immigration story. It also examines the St. Ansgar parish's history, historic Catholic policy in Chicago and the Vatican, and specific changes in local congregational life in order to understand the changes for St. Ansgar Filipinos. A case study is presented which explored how a predominantly Euro-American Catholic parish changed over the years into a multiethnic church that is a model of a multiracial church united by faith. It is instructive that harmony was obtained not merely because individuals of many races attended the same parish thus making it multiracial. Rather, several factors led to positive change at St. Ansgar.Less
This chapter addresses on how Filipinas and Filipinos who comprise the single largest group (40%) slowly moved from peripheral parish involvement into worship leadership, and emerged—within one generation—as a valued distinctive ethnic subgroup in the Catholic church, both locally in Chicago and in its national and worldwide presence. It begins with the situation of St. Ansgar Filipinos within the larger Filipino American immigration story. It also examines the St. Ansgar parish's history, historic Catholic policy in Chicago and the Vatican, and specific changes in local congregational life in order to understand the changes for St. Ansgar Filipinos. A case study is presented which explored how a predominantly Euro-American Catholic parish changed over the years into a multiethnic church that is a model of a multiracial church united by faith. It is instructive that harmony was obtained not merely because individuals of many races attended the same parish thus making it multiracial. Rather, several factors led to positive change at St. Ansgar.
David G. Gutiérrez
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451409
- eISBN:
- 9780801465642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451409.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter returns to the subject of immigration, from when the American Catholic century began. Senator Edward Kennedy led the reform of the nation's immigration laws. Latino Catholic immigrants, ...
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This chapter returns to the subject of immigration, from when the American Catholic century began. Senator Edward Kennedy led the reform of the nation's immigration laws. Latino Catholic immigrants, in particular, currently make up at least one-third of the U.S. Catholic population, and their importance for both church and society only increases. Roughly seven out of ten of these Latinos identify as Catholic, and there is a continuous effort to sustain the allegiance of Latino Catholics against the twin competitors of secularization and Protestant evangelicalism. The chapter suggests that the rapid secularization of Euro-American Catholics makes the role of Latinos even more crucial for Catholicism's future. The sharpest declines are in once heavily Catholic areas such as New England, where detachment from the institutional church is transforming the religious ethos of the region.Less
This chapter returns to the subject of immigration, from when the American Catholic century began. Senator Edward Kennedy led the reform of the nation's immigration laws. Latino Catholic immigrants, in particular, currently make up at least one-third of the U.S. Catholic population, and their importance for both church and society only increases. Roughly seven out of ten of these Latinos identify as Catholic, and there is a continuous effort to sustain the allegiance of Latino Catholics against the twin competitors of secularization and Protestant evangelicalism. The chapter suggests that the rapid secularization of Euro-American Catholics makes the role of Latinos even more crucial for Catholicism's future. The sharpest declines are in once heavily Catholic areas such as New England, where detachment from the institutional church is transforming the religious ethos of the region.
