Children run during recess at the St. Agnes Elementary School in Phoenix, Ariz., on March 3, 2020. In 2016, the student body at St. Agnes was two-thirds Hispanic; the figure is now 95%, and virtually every student receives financial aid through state-approved tax credit programs that extend to private schools. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-MIlls)
March 14, 2020
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March 14, 2020 6:02 a.m.
US Hispanic Catholics are future, but priest numbers dismal
PHOENIX (AP) — Maria Chavira, a senior administrator in the Diocese of Phoenix, says Spanish-speaking Catholic parishes in her area are “bursting at the seams” and celebrates the emergence of Hispanics as the largest ethnic component of the church nationwide.