Los Angeles archbishop Jose Gomez becomes the first Latino elected as president to lead America’s Roman Catholic bishops
in the U.S. Catholic Church, was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Tuesday, marking the first time that a Latino bishop has held the position.
Gomez’s ascendance comes amid Latinos’ shifting relationship with the Catholic faith: Latinos in the U.S. are no longer majority-Catholic, according to a Pew Research Center survey released last month. Some 47% describe themselves as Catholic, the survey showed, down from 57% a decade ago. At the same time, 23% of Latinos say they are religiously unaffiliated, up from 15% in 2009.
Gomez, the first Latino archbishop of Los Angeles, succeeded Cardinal Roger Mahony in 2011 after he wasThe archbishop’s elevation comes as the U.S. Supreme Court this week reviews several appeals court rulings that have blocked President Trump’s 2017 order ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. More than 700,000 DACA recipients, known as Dreamers, currently live in the U.S, according to the National Immigration Law Center.
fervent columns. He has assembled an immigration task force that includes representatives from the dioceses of Orange and San Bernardino. Immigrants today are the main force preventing a sharp decline in U.S. Catholic Church membership, which some estimates put at about 70 million. As a boy, he regularly traveled across the border, moving between his home in Monterrey and his uncle’s house in San Antonio. He would go fishing with his father at South Padre Island, using his passport andHis family has lived in Texas since 1805, he said, when the area was still under Spanish rule. His grandparents were married at the cathedral in San Antonio in 1917.
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