Young faith: Catholic Church is seeking ways to keep Hispanic youths in the fold

“Some 2,000 Hispanic youth and Catholic Church leaders will gather next week as part of a new, churchwide effort to meet the spiritual and social needs of young Hispanics. The conference, which marks the first national meeting for Hispanic Catholic youth, comes at a time when growing numbers of young Hispanic Catholics are abandoning their parents’ church for evangelical Protestant movements.

”Many pastors don’t quite know how to relate to Hispanic young people in an organized, caring way,” said Bishop Felipe Estevez, an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Miami. He will join a delegation of 44 Miami Hispanic Catholic youth and youth leaders at the June 8-11 conference at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.”

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