Puerto Ricans: An Important part in the NY Catholic Church's History (BoricuaMaster)
posted Thu July 31st @ 4:42 PM

Hispanics and Catholic New York
NY Times, City Room Blog, By Sewell Chan
July 30, 2008
Many people, if asked when Hispanics began to reshape the Catholic Church in New York City, would probably put the date around 1950, when Puerto Rican migrants began arriving in Manhattan in large numbers. But in fact, Hispanics had exerted a powerful influence on religion and society in New York more than a century earlier, an important insight that emerged from a panel discussion on Tuesday night at the Museum of the City of New York. To read and/or listen to the complete article, you must be logged in. See below.