Folks, I urge you to read these articles by Alejandro Bermúdez, editor-in-chief of the Catholic News Agency and ACI Prensa, the largest and most-visited online Catholic news provider in Spanish and Portuguese. His columns focus on the Church in Latin America, as well as the growth and impact of the Hispanic population within the Catholic Church in the United States. His latest piece, Why Latin America's Deep Catholic Roots Matter, is pretty insightful. In today’s divisive immigration debate, Latin American Catholics are looked upon with great suspicion. In fact, a certain conservative radio blabber once accused the US Church of taking advantage of illegal immigrants in order to refill her depleted ranks following the clergy sexual abuse scandal. The dominant narrative is that with the ignorant hordes of Hispanics overflowing the border, superstition, ignorance, and poverty will follow under the gleeful eye of mitred personages. It is an old prejudice, if you ask me. Mr. Bermúdez is out to dispel these and other notions. Here’s a list of his columns:
- A Catholic Mirror for the Empire
- A Peruvian Pessimism in the Catholic Church?
- Democracy in (Central) America
- Please, Cry for Me, Argentina
- Hope for Latin America
- Hispanics: The New Irish for the U.S. Catholic Church?
- How Political Correctness Could Sink Haiti's Future
- How 'Timoteo Tibou' Made It South of the Rio Grande
- A Game-Changer in Cuba
- Hispanics, the American Dream and Secularism
- Lost in Translation: What Archbishop Gomez Can Bring to the Immigration Debate
- 'Scandal and Outrage' in Latin America?
- The Church and Cuba
- Spain's Turmoil
- Beyond Mexico: Why Latin America Is Important for U.S. Policy Makers and the Catholic Church
- Why Latin America's Deep Catholic Roots Matter
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