'Racism is a pro-life issue': The Catholic Church's latest response to racism in America
The Catholic Church's struggles with race and racism are similar to other Christian denominations here and across the country. But with 461,000 members and the nation's sixth largest Catholic school system with about 43,000 students, the archdiocese is the most influential denomination in the area.
Extending north from Cincinnati into west-central Ohio and east into Appalachia, the archdiocese has many small rural and sprawling suburban parishes that are overwhelmingly if not exclusively white. And it is more "brown than black," church leaders say, because of an increase in Hispanic families migrating from Central and South American nations.
Many of the archdiocese's estimated 16,000 African-American members attend its four predominantly black urban churches – three of which are in Cincinnati's West End, Winton Hills and Bond Hill neighborhoods. The other is in Dayton.
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