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Article: Diversity defines Catholics of the '90s: LA is a microcosm of sweeping changes occurring nationwide. (Los Angeles, CA)(Cultual Diversity in the Catholic Church)(Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 17, 1997
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LOS ANGELES--Two Anglo women began grumbling softly to each other during a recent religious education session here when they realized they could not understand the language being used on the video.
The creation stories told during the November workshop at the San Gabriel, Calif., regional religious conference began with a bold video version of Genesis in Spanish.
The women's dissatisfaction subsided minutes later, however, when an African-American man bellowed a black spiritual poem, a slightly different account of that same first chapter of the Bible.
"He's telling the story we heard in the Spanish video," a bilingual Latina explained to the ...