Boston College's report on Hispanic parish ministry, Part II | National Catholic Reporter

Boston College's report on Hispanic parish ministry, Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB:  I suspect that the higher Mass attendence is cultural - with the family going to Mass together and never skipping.  The fact that Hispanic parish members are not as involved in the life of the parish, instead creating their own culture (such as the Corpus Christie procession every year) is a question of both the desire to remain unique and the majority's desire to let them.  As Dr. King said, Sunday is the most segregated day of the week.  This explains why they give less time and treasure to the parish as a whole.  The data says this is also the case in apostolic movements.  Opus Dei anyone?  Such movements make Hispanic Catholics more faithful than our more skeptical Anglo Catholics, some of whom learned that skepticism at Catholic College.  Only time will tell us the impact of various levels of devoutness.  Of course, in time, this should work itself out.