Posted on 04/29/2007 8:07:36 AM PDT by Zakeet
Latinos are transforming America's religious landscape, especially the Roman Catholic Church, according to a major study released Wednesday. The study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Hispanic Center found that Latinos, whose numbers are growing through immigration and a high birth rate, now account for a third of American Catholics and is likely to rise.
Latinos are nourishing a distinctive form of worship known as renewalism that is sweeping across Latin America. "You could call it bringing the fiesta spirit into the Catholic Church," said Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
One of the fastest-growing movements in Christendom, renewalism emphasizes God's intervention in human affairs through the Holy Spirit, taking the Bible literally, speaking in tongues, faith healing, exorcism and prophesy, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The study also found that Latino evangelicals are twice as likely as Latino Catholics to be Republicans and are much more likely to approve of President Bush and to favor using force in Iraq.
In interviews with 4,016 Latinos from August to October, Pew found most consider themselves religious and pray daily. Almost 70 percent are Roman Catholic, 15 percent are Protestant, within which 54 percent of Catholics and 57 percent of Protestants define themselves as charismatic or Pentecostal. By contrast, about 10 percent of non-Latino Catholics and 20 percent of Protestants identify as charismatic or Pentecostal.
Conversions are bringing more Latinos into the Protestant faiths. The study found half of Latino evangelicals are converts, mostly ex-Catholics who wanted a more personal experience with God and were bored by traditonal Mass. At the same time, Catholic renewalists are forming new worship groups within the church.
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Now here’s a reason for liberals to oppose immigration.
Or...
Yeah, it may be that the force which overcomes any Muhammadan/Islam take-over will be coming from the Latino sector.
Poetic Justice, I suppose?
Big money behind the effort to inundate the United States using communist based , socialist-liberal, ideology.
Demographic Warfare.
Doing the praying Americans don’t want to do.
“Conversions are bringing more Latinos into the Protestant faiths. The study found half of Latino evangelicals are converts, mostly ex-Catholics who wanted a more personal experience with God and were bored by traditonal Mass.”
Yes, rituals don’t give you a personal relationship. Plus when a person reads the Bible they discover that Catholic teachings and “traditions” are not always in line with Biblical teachings. Tradtions won’t save anyone. You will find truth, ONLY in the Bible - which is inpsired - ALL of it.
They are not just changing Christianity but changing the whole country and according to many that is just peachy. Doesn’t matter who the people are just so long as they support the “idea” of America. America is America weather it is 100% Latino or otherwise.
There, fixed it.
Yes, it's changing. Apparently, this new breed of priest approves of all the little kiddie gang bangers and hoochie mamas in school now days.
In Chicago, when they’re not worshiping images of Christ on tortillas, they’re erecting shrines in overpasses where water and salt from Streets & Sanitation have stained the walls into images of the Madonna.
They’re changing religion, that’s for sure.
True considering all the free goodies they get in El Norte.
I just got home from the mexican market.
Ive got no problem with these folks
Just wait until there's a real awakening among the new Americans. I wonder if you know how right you are.
A revival of people loving God, again, what a complete difference that would make to our world.
No mention of heretical ‘liberation theology’.
Either way, America, as we know it, will be no more.
This statement is probably true of all ethnic groups, not just Latinos. In my experience, evangelicals are mostly Rs, and Catholics are mostly Ds, period.
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