Fe y Familia: Faith as a Foundation

Faith is woven into the fabric of las familias latinas in ways that go far deeper than Sunday attendance or religious affiliation. Across la comunidad latina, families turn to faith and spirituality to make meaning, endure hardship, and hold their communities together, yet at a moment when society as a whole is drifting away from organized religion, many families are quietly wrestling with what to hold onto and what to pass on. Spirituality in las culturas latinas looks many ways and traditions have shifted across generations: it lives in the promesas made during a health scare, the healer visit quietly alongside the doctor, the sacred image hung above the front door, and the prayers whispered over a child before school.