About This Issue

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About This Issue Christopher J. Kauffman We are very pleased to publish this “homenaje” (festschrift) for Moises Sandoval. Our Winter-Spring 1990 issue was entitled “Hispanic Catholics: Historical Exploration and Cultural Analysis.” The articles originated as papers presented at a March 1989 conference sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. Moises Sandoval was the consulting editor of this issue and wrote the introduction. He opened with the remark that the significance of the papers “represents an effort by Hispanics to write their own history in the Church from their own perspective, one not found in traditional Church histories.” He pointed out that another sponsor of the conference was the Commission of Historical Studies of the Church in Latin America (CEHILA). “Because the Hispanic community is culturally another Latin nation, CEHILA has encouraged and supported the project.” The authors of the papers presented at the conference were members of CEHILA-USA. Thank you, Moises, for your contribution to the U.S. Catholic Historian. I am also grateful to the contributors to this issue who honor Moises as an historian, editor, mentor, and liberationist; their scholarly articles reflect the gifts of CEHILAUSA, 2010. Mario T. García is Professor of Chicano Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. He has published many books in Chicano history, Chicano Catholic history, and Catholic studies. Timothy Matovina is Professor of Theology and the William and Anna Jean Cushwa Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. Kristy Nabhan-Warren is Associate Professor of Religion at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Bishop Ricardo Ramirez, C.S.B., is the founding bishop of the Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Juan Romero is a priest of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, ministering in the Diocese of San Bernardino. Alberto López Pulido is Chair and Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Diego. Olivia T. Ruiz Marrujo is a cultural anthropologist at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana. Robert E. Wright, O.M.I., is a Catholic priest, member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, teaching courses in culture and religion at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio. [End Page i] Click for larger view View full resolution Moises Sandoval in his office at Maryknoll, 1996. Courtesy of Maryknoll Mission Archives. [End Page ii] Copyright © 2010 The Catholic University of America Press