Timothy Matovina
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Timothy Matovina is Professor of Theology and the William and Anna Jean Cushwa Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. He has written or edited over a dozen books on Latino religion and history, including "Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present," "Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism," and most recently "Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church" (Princeton, 2012).

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Latinos and the Transformation of U.S. Catholicism

0 Comments | Posted January 18, 2012 | 6:52 AM

Latinos constitute more than one-third of U.S. Catholics, one-fourth of newborns in the United States, and one-fifth of schoolchildren. But numbers alone do not define the significance of the Latino presence. Even more crucial is how the U.S. context, the U.S. Catholic Church, and Latinos mutually transform one another. Latinos'...

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