The Spanish Speaking People of Nativity Mission Center, Manhattan: An Analysis of the Family Service Program, June 28, 1955 to December 31, 1955, at Nativity Parish, New York City
Abstract
Background and Timeliness of the Study. The Catholic Church has become increasingly cognizant of its tremendous responsibility in reaching out to the ever growing Puerto Rican population in New York City. The Puerto Rican migrants come from an island where more than eight in ten persons are nominally Catholics, and this proportion persists in New York City. There is today a conservative minimum of 600,000 Spanish Americans within the Archdiocese of New York and, in all probability, a more exact estimate would place the number at 750,000. Furthermore, it has been reasonably calculated that by 1960, the Spanish American population of New York City will have reached one million persons.
Subject Area
American studies|Individual & family studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
Petlicka, Margaret Patricia, "The Spanish Speaking People of Nativity Mission Center, Manhattan: An Analysis of the Family Service Program, June 28, 1955 to December 31, 1955, at Nativity Parish, New York City" (1956). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050524.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050524
