On the Dearth of Black and Hispanic Catholics in Popular Catholic Media
According to a 2011 study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, “The US Catholic population is currently 77.7 million.” According to other sources, 39% of those Catholics are Hispanic and 4% are Blacks. Yet, if you look at all the major Catholic television outlets, read the major Catholic magazines and website blogs, Diocesan newspapers, peruse the catalogs of Catholic book publishers, listen to Catholic radio, and look at the two major outlets for Catholic speakers, you would come away with the impression that American Catholicism is as White as Catholicism in Ireland.
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