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Hosffman Ospino

Hosffman Ospino, a professor of theology and religious education at Boston College, writes commentary for Our Sunday Visitor.

ANÁLISIS: Se nos escapa la esperanza hispana como agua entre los dedos

September 28, 2023
By Hosffman Ospino
OSV News
Filed Under: En Español

Este ha sido el caso por más de medio siglo. Los hispanos representamos aproximadamente el 71% del crecimiento de la población católica en los Estados Unidos desde 1960.

Analysis: Is the U.S. church’s Hispanic Catholic hope slipping away?

September 28, 2023
By Hosffman Ospino
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration

Hispanics account for nearly 71 percent of the growth of the Catholic population in the United States since 1960.

Celebremos el mes de la hispanidad como católicos

September 13, 2023
By Hosffman Ospino
OSV News
Filed Under: En Español

Cada año, entre el 15 de septiembre y el 15 de octubre, en los Estados Unidos se observa el mes de la hispanidad. La tradición comenzó con una semana de la hispanidad en 1968 y luego, en 1988, se extendió por ley a una celebración de un mes completo.

Observing Hispanic Heritage Month as Catholics

September 13, 2023
By Hosffman Ospino
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

Every year, between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15, the United States observes Hispanic Heritage Month. The observance began as Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968 and, in 1988, was extended by law into a full-month celebration.

When most Hispanics were Catholic…

April 19, 2023
By Hosffman Ospino
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration

As the Hispanic population grows quickly and steadily in the United States, fewer Hispanics self-identify with Roman Catholicism.

Mary, woman of wonders against the lords of war

April 7, 2022
By Hosffman Ospino
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, War in Ukraine

It is with sadness and puzzlement that our world witnesses the invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation, by its neighbor Russia, an exponentially more powerful country politically, economically and militarily.

El movimiento de renovación eucarística ha estado en marcha por un buen tiempo

August 11, 2021
By Hosffman Ospino
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: En Español

Los teólogos son quizás el grupo de católicos mejor preparado, con la capacitación y la disciplina necesarias para analizar la complejidad de las preocupaciones sobre la Eucaristía que ocupan nuestro imaginario católico hoy en día.

Eucharistic renewal is already an ongoing movement

August 11, 2021
By Hosffman Ospino
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Guest Commentary

Theologians are perhaps the best-prepared body of Catholics with the training and skills to analyze the complexity of the questions about the Eucharist that shape our Catholic imagination today.

Cuando el cansancio y la esperanza de un nuevo comienzo se encuentran

January 19, 2021
By Hosffman Ospino
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: En Español

El uso desenfrenado de un lenguaje racista en el discurso público, el brote de un nacionalismo creciente que se fundamenta en sentimientos antiinmigrantes y el desprecio por las personas que son pobres, entre otros desatinos socioculturales de nuestro día, exigen un examen de conciencia comunitario.

Exhaustion meets new beginnings

January 19, 2021
By Hosffman Ospino
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice

The cavalier use of racist language in our public discourse, the rise of an emerging nationalism built upon anti-immigrant sentiments and the disdain for people who struggle with poverty, among other sociocultural misfits in our day, demand a communal examination of conscience.

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