En Vivo de Hotlanta... y El Vaticano

By all accounts another smashing success, the final march into this year's Atlanta Eucharistic Congress -- turnout: 35,000-plus -- was fittingly led by La Nueva Mayoridad, which (as in many other places) has quickly come to form roughly half of the million-member church in the 404....



Lest anyone still seeks to quibble with the Stateside church's most epochal demographic shift in 170 years, this week will see the Eternal City experience its most powerful taste yet of the American Catholic future, as the number of Latino metropolitans from these shores ever to have received the archbishop's pallium from the Pope triples in one fell swoop come early Wednesday, led by the head of the largest diocese the US church has ever known (a 5 million-member fold that, today, is no less than 70% Hispanic).

Ergo, as a historic week begins, and the calendar passes beyond halfway toward another 12 December -- one which, as ever, promises to be even bigger than the last -- que viva la Morenita de Tepeyac, Estrella de Nuestra Esperanza, Madre de una Nueva Vida por esta Iglesia entre nosotros....


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