Why are Hispanic Catholics promoting an event for all people?
• So that U.S. Catholics will become more aware of the cultural diversity of the Church and its richness. • So that participants in the Encuentro process will return with motivation and ideas to reinvigorate parishes and dioceses so they will celebrate and utilize the diversity in service of the Church’s mission. • So that participants at the local and national levels will develop a richer sense of how the Church’s sacramental life gives birth to and fosters mission, reconciliation, communion and solidarity. • What is the number of Catholics in the United States? In the United States, according to the Official Catholic Directory (The Kenedy Directory), there are an estimated 59.2 million Catholics, comprising an estimated 23 percent of the U.S. population. According to 1999 estimates from the Population Estimate Program of the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 273,136,000 people in the United States, • How many U.S. Catholics are Hispanic/Latin American/Caribbean? According t
