The times they are a’ changin’?

Here is a nice quote about Latino Catholicism:

“…most Latin[o]s have a deeply ingrained faith in God. They see and feel Him in the midst of their poverty, and in their pressing needs they turn to Him with a fervor and humility seldom equalled by many who attend Mass every Sunday.  Theirs is a living religion, with Christ personally and instantly approachable and intereste in their problems.  Amid the growing secularization of today the consciousness of a living God in our midst, brought by many [Hispanics], may be the best enrichment of American religious life and the most effective antidote to secularism in the Anglo middle-class culture of America.”

The quote was from a gentleman named Stan Twardy from an article entitled “The Changing Complexion of American Catholicism” Oklahoma Courier in 1962.

I got it from a book I was reading called “La Raza: Forgotten Americans”, edited by Julian Samora in 1966.  It is a book as old as me!  It is interesting that much of the dreary statistics given in the book, regarding economics and education among Hispanics, are just as dreary today as they were 40 years ago, except the population is 4 times larger.