Latinos

The Latino Marriage Paradox

by Nicholas H. Wolfinger and W. Bradford Wilcox

Eduardo and Graciela Valdez met on the dance floor of a New York salsa club in 2000. Graciela, a single mother, had returned to her childhood Catholicism after giving birth to a son out of wedlock. Continue Reading »

Why Latinos Are Leaving the Catholic Church

by Anna Sutherland

Even as an increasing share of U.S. Catholics are Latino, Catholics account for a declining share of the country’s Latinos. Roughly one-third of Catholic adults in the U.S. are Latino, but just over half (55 percent) of Latino adults here are Catholics. As recently as 2010, that figure stood at two-thirds. Continue Reading »