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Church hits language barrier.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Gaiutra Bahadur and Maria Panaritis
PHILADELPHIA _ The Salvadoran worshipers at St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church lost their Spanish-speaking priest after just five months.
The Rev. Lou Rojas didn't leave the Lindenwold, N.J., parish in June because he wanted to. He had to.
Rojas had been doing double duty at parishes 20 miles apart. And the other, in an Atlantic County, N.J., town swollen with migrant farmworkers, needed him more.
So the Camden (N.J.) Diocese has rotated a lineup of Spanish-speaking priests into St. Lawrence rather than allow yet another growing Latino community to go unserved.
This revolving door of priests is a stopgap measure the U.S. Catholic Church is using to cope with a reality that could imperil its growth: There are not enough Spanish-speaking priests to serve the country's largest minority.
The few priests called into action hopscotch from altar to altar in new Latino enclaves miles apart. And immigrants in suburban outposts drive dozens of miles _ or abandon the church that has come to depend on them for its growth.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Church hits language barrier.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)