Sentences with phrase «catholic immigrant populations»

A demographic shift in urban areas away from predominantly Catholic immigrant populations has affected demand.

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The total U.S. Catholic population has remained at about 24 %, as immigrants have filled the pews the ex-Catholics have left behind.

But the town enjoyed a large Catholic population, descendants of immigrants who had come in the 19th century to work in the mills, and they filled two large and thriving churches.

The Catholic population, which had been so enlarged by Irish immigrants, was now well served by a network of churches, religious houses and schools (which now received some state funding).

Although 63 percent of the 10 million Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. are native - born, neither they nor the immigrant populations from Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America have been fully integrated into American Catholic life.

Enrollment in urban Catholic schools, originally designed for an immigrant population, was falling, as Catholic families moved from central cities to the suburbs (see Figure 1).

Initially Milwaukee Catholic schools served immigrant families, today our schools serve mostly high poverty neighborhoods in the city with more than 80 % of our student population considered economically disadvantaged.

Equal Justice Works, in partnership with Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), will receive $ 1.2 million — more than half of the total funding — to deploy 55 full - time Members (45 lawyers and 10 paralegals) to provide legal representation to unaccompanied children, build pro bono capacity to support that population, and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of immigration courts in the locations in which members will serve.