Postcards: Silenced by COVID, mariachi Mass returns to Tucson cathedral
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the return of mariachi Masses in the US city of Tuscon…
A Mexican American evangelical examines how Latino identity is shaped by faith
RNS By any definition of the term, Jonathan Calvillo, a Mexican American raised in Pentecostal churches, is an evangelical Christian. But when discussing his faith, Calvillo will often simply describe himself as Protestant, or say he’s from a Pentecostal background. Other times, he’ll use the Spanish word evangelico. “Evangelical,” said Calvillo, a sociology of religion professor […]
Mexican American religious life will be preserved in UCLA archive collection
Los Angeles, USRNS The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center archives Mexican American life before, during and after the Chicano Movement. These collections give insight to Mexican American leaders in the 1940s and ’50s and those who participated in the civil rights movement that advocated for voting and political rights in the ’60s. It also tracks […]
CATHOLIC ACTIVISM: 50 YEARS LATER, CHICANO CATHOLIC ACTIVISTS RECALL THEIR MIDNIGHT MASS CLASH WITH POLICE
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports from a recent reunion of Mexican American Catholic activists in Los Angeles…