Read the text of Amendment 10-A and the accompanying resolution and explanatory language that was passed by the PCUSA General Assembly in July 2010. The new language allowed for the ordination of homosexuals.

The Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame also posts its research, which includes Hispanic housing in the United States, the future of Hispanic religious leadership, Hispanic access to health services, and Latino congregations’ civic/social involvement.

Hispanics make up 41 percent of Catholics in the U.S., according to data posted by Instituto Fe y Vida, a Catholic non-profit serving young Hispanics.

Read a report by the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry about the First National Hispanic Youth and Youth Adult Ministry Encounter, held in June 2006.

The Rev. Robin Meyers is a United Church of Christ pastor, syndicated columnist and professor of rhetoric at Oklahoma City University. Books he has written include Why the Christian Right Is Wrong: A Minister’s Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future.

Read a Sept. 11, 2012 Huffington Post article about the increase in hispanic Muslims across the country.

Read a Nov. 14, 2012 Wall Street Journal article about the increasing political influence of hispanics in the U.S.

The University of San Diego Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism is an organization dedicated to studying the theological influence of hispanics and Catholicism on society and church in the U.S. The center maintains an extensive list of Internet resources related to U.S. Hispanic and Latin American Catholicism.

A gathering of top U.S. Hispanic business leaders in Allenspark, Colo., considered the spiritual, cultural and economic role of U.S. Hispanics, according to an Aug. 21, 2006, Catholic News Agency article.