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.

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

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.

Lara Medina is an associate professor of Chicano and Chicana studies with an interest in politics and religion at California State University, Northridge. She wrote Las Hermanas: Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism in the U.S. Catholic Church.

John García is a research professor at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests are minority group politics, especially Latinos; political behavior; political mobilization; urban politics; social survey research; and public policy-health. He wrote Latino Politics in America: Community, Culture and Interests.

David Knowlton is a professor in the behavioral science department at Utah Valley University in Orem. His specialties include the anthropology of Mormonism.