{"id":639,"date":"2013-03-18T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:00:36","slug":"pope-francis-and-hispanic-american-catholics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2013\/03\/pope-francis-and-hispanic-american-catholics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis and Hispanic American Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As the first Pope from the region that currently includes a plurality of the world\u2019s Catholic population, Pope Francis I\u2019s election signals the importance of Latin America to the Church. Francis\u2019 election may also help rekindle Catholicism among those in the U.S. with roots in Latin America: the Hispanic population.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=YotdJz8YXE8:0Q0ND6pX_3E:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=YotdJz8YXE8:0Q0ND6pX_3E:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute\/~4\/YotdJz8YXE8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first Pope from the region that currently includes a plurality of the world\u2019s Catholic population, Pope Francis I&#8217;s election signals the importance of Latin America to the Church. 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