Creating a truly multicultural church takes change from both the dominant group and minority groups, Sister María Elena González, R.S.M...
Parish life
With Mexican, American, and Mexican American cultures mixing at parishes, Gary Riebe-Estrella recommends a good dose of patience and understanding. When...
Hispanic Catholics will soon be the majority in the U.S. church but they are still often relegated to the basement. It’s time to bring Hispanic ministry...
Dispatches from the history of Hispanic Catholics in the United States. From colonial times until recently, Hispanic Catholics in lands now in the United...
Not all JustFaith groups meet in parish meeting rooms. One allows inmates to deepen their faith and serve their community behind bars. Eleven men sit in a...
In a 1990s article from Salt of the Earth, Jack Jezreel wrote about the surprising success of JustFaith, the parish-based program on social justice, at...
On the whole, U.S. Catholic readers sing praises for their parishes. Sounding Boards are one person’s take on a many-sided subject and do not necessarily...
The U.S. Catholic Church today is undergoing profound cultural, social, and leadership transitions. It’s at the parish level that conflicts arise and new...
The most vibrant parishes focus as much on ministry to the poor as they do on ministry in the liturgy, says the founder of JustFaith Ministries. In 1988 Jack...
"It's a zoo," sighs Father Donald B. Cozzens, who had been hoping for a quiet sabbatical to finish writing his next book. Instead, the...
