The PADRES were claiming that the Church as an institution in this country was not adequately responding to pastoral needs of its Spanish speaking. A significant “sign of the times” was that over 25% of Catholics in the U.S. were in this demographic. Church leadership at the time was ...
American immigrants, Mexican Californios, Tongva/Gabrieleno Indians and Spanish padres come to life in Barbara Crane’s imaginative re-telling of California’s Mexican era, set in what is now Long Beach and in the pueblo of Los Angeles. As the novel unfolds, its themes of loss, hope and ...