The Latino Shoemaker Behind the Pope’s Red Shoes

The Latino Shoemaker Behind the Pope’s Red Shoes

Mary Mata February 28, 2013

By NBCLatino/Associated Press The red shoes are being retired. Pope Benedict XVI wearing red shoes for an official event. (Photo by Sergio Dionisio/Getty Images) The Pope is giving up the […]

La Sorpresa: The Papal Resignation, in the Latin American Eye

Mary Mata February 12, 2013

By Mary Jo McConahay, New America Media SAN SALVADOR — Local bishops, not the pope, traditionally run church life and sometimes political life from Mexico to Argentina, but the reach of […]

Will a Latino be the Next Pope?

Mary Mata February 11, 2013

By Tony Castro, Voxxi With the Church struggling with increasing non-churchgoers but an ever-rising Hispanic population in the world, even Pope Benedict XVI sought to bring a more geographically diverse mix into […]

Morning NewsTaco

NewsTaco May 18, 2012

Friday May 18, 2012 Could Immigration Decide The Election? (The New Yorker): Hispanic voters were key to Barack Obama’s win in 2008. But that was when he was telling them that […]

The Rise Of Evangelicalism In Mexico

Mary Mata April 6, 2012

by Paul Adams For the first time as his tenure as a pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI passed through Mexico last weekend during his Latin American trip. Though many of its […]