A Pope, a People, and a Parish: How Changing Demographics Are Changing Catholic Communities

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Pew Research Center, The Global Religious Landscape, December 18, 2012, http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/.

Ibid.

Paul Vallely, Pope Francis-Untying the Knots: The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism, (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015), 291.

Pope Francis, “General Audience,” September 25, 2013, https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130925_udienza-generale.html.

Pew Research Center, Religious Landscape Study, 2014, http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/.

Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, n.d., http://cara.georgetown.edu/staff/webpages/Hispanic%20Catholic%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf.

Pope Francis, “Chrism Mass Homily,” March 28, 2013, http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130328_messa-crismale.html.

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium [Apostolic Exhortation on the Proclamation of the Gospel], November 24, 2013, para. 28, http://w2.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.pdf.

Ibid.

Korie Edwards, Brad Christerson, and Michael O. Emerson, “Race, Religious Organizations, and Integration,” Annual Review of Sociology 39 (2013): 211–228.

Michael O. Emerson and Rodney M. Woo, People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006); Tricia C. Bruce, Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017); Mary Jo Bane, “A House Divided,” in American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism, ed. Gary Adler, Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming in 2018).

Code of Canon Law, 1983, http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM.

I write extensively about personal parishes in my book, Parish and Place (see n. 11).

Ibid. Unless otherwise indicated, all interviews excerpted here come from those I conducted for Parish and Place in 2012 and 2013.

Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray, Jonathon L. Wiggins, and Thomas P. Gaunt, Catholic Parishes of the 21st Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Brett C. Hoover, The Shared Parish: Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism (New York: New York University Press, 2014), 2.

Kathleen Garces-Foley, “Comparing Catholic and Evangelical Integration Efforts,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47, no. 1 (2008): 17–22.

Evangelii Gaudium, para. 29.

Ibid.

Zech, 119.

Darren W. Davis and Donald B. Pope-Davis, “National Black Catholic Survey” (Washington DC: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2011), http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/cultural-diversity/african-american/news/upload/exec-summary-key-findings.pdf.

Timothy M. Matovina, Latino Catholicism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 125.

This work was conducted as a part of a national study of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) American Catholics commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. See Tricia C. Bruce, Jerry Z. Park, and Stephen M. Cherry, “Asian and Pacific Island Catholics in the United States,” report prepared for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2015, http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/cultural-diversity/asian-pacific-islander/demographics/upload/API-Catholics-in-the-US-Report-October-2015.pdf.

These interview excerpts come from those I conducted for a USCCB-commissioned study of Asian American Catholics.

English is the second language of both of these priests.

Hoover (see n. 16); Hosffman Ospino, Hispanic Ministry in Catholic Parishes: A Summary Report (Boston: Boston College, 2014), https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/stm/pdf/2014/HispanicMinistryinCatholicParishes_2.pdf.

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Tricia C. Bruce

Tricia C. Bruce is an associate professor of sociology at Maryville College and at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Her books include Faithful Revolution, Polarization in the US Catholic Church, and Parish and Place.