A priest marks repentance ashes on the foreheads of students from the St. John Paul II Catholic High School during Ash Wednesday Mass at the St. Thomas Aquinas church in Phoenix, Ariz., on Feb. 26, 2020. (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.