U.S. Catholic magazine - March 2011
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COVER STORY
What’s right with this picture? Young Latinos take the lead
The church’s growing population of Hispanic youth—now the majority of Catholic young people—is more than just a demographic shift, reports Augustin Gurza. They’re building a new way of being Catholic from the ground up.
WEB ONLY! Pastoral juvenil in action
FEATURE
Home builder
Angela Hurlock knows that stable neighborhoods need settled, secure neighbors, reports Tim Carnahan in In Person. That’s why her work is to help others find a place to call home.
SOUNDING BOARD
When I was a stranger . . .
New in town, Heather Grennan Gary found her local parish didn't exactly welcome her family with open arms. In Sounding Board she prescribes a few easy remedies. Readers suggest a spirituality of hospitality in Feedback.
INTERVIEW
Spanglish lessons
Do you speak it? If not, you might want to learn, suggests Carmen Nanko-Fernández in Expert Witness. Blending pop music and prayer, culture and church, the new Catholic generation likes to mix it up.
WEB ONLY! 5 Questions with Carmen Nanko-Fernández
POEM
The Archbishop's Closet
A poem by Brian Doyle
ESSAY
Lives of the saints: Deleted scenes
Joel Schorn profiles some holy heroes whose halos started out a little crooked.
Open space
God’s peculiar language is best discerned in the pauses, emptiness, and silences of life, writes Cistercian nun Sheryl Frances Chen.
Why I love being a priest
Let Holy Cross Father Charles B. Gordon count the sometimes surprising ways.
DEPARTMENTS
Editors' Note
You May Be Right Letters
Signs of the Times News
Catholic Tastes
Culture in Context: Reviews
Glad You Asked: What's the history of the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament?
At Home with Our Faith - You 2.0
Eye of the Beholder
Jerry Bleem, O.F.M.
COLUMNS
The Examined Life - Bryan Cones
Judgment call
Margin Notes - Kevin Clarke
Collateral damage
Culture in Context - Patrick McCormick
How the West wasn't
Testaments - Alice Camille
No place like home
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