Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens is Associate Professor of Church and Society studies at Union Theological Seminary. She has published extensively on religion and Latino studies.

"This balanced, readable history of Hispanic ministry in New York is perhaps the finest work available on this scale concerning Puerto Rican Catholics on the mainland." —Review for Religious" ... a valuable book. For its historical perspective alone it deserves to be read and studied in detail by persons who are engaged in the rapidly expanding area of 'Hispanic ministry.' " —Sociology of Religion"This balanced, readable history of Hispanic ministry in New York is perhaps the finest work available on this scale concerning Puerto Rican Catholics on the mainland. Diaz-Stevens speaks not only as a sociologist, but as a witness to and participant in many of the events she narrates. She deals masterfully with such prominent figures as Felix Valera, Ivan Illich, Robert Fox, Robert Stern, and Joseph Fitzpatrick, without forgetting such discounted heroines as Las Hijas de Maria." —Review for Religious

Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens is Associate Professor of Church and Society studies at Union Theological Seminary. She has published extensively on religion and Latino studies.

"This balanced, readable history of Hispanic ministry in New York is perhaps the finest work available on this scale concerning Puerto Rican Catholics on the mainland." —Review for Religious" ... a valuable book. For its historical perspective alone it deserves to be read and studied in detail by persons who are engaged in the rapidly expanding area of 'Hispanic ministry.' " —Sociology of Religion"This balanced, readable history of Hispanic ministry in New York is perhaps the finest work available on this scale concerning Puerto Rican Catholics on the mainland. Diaz-Stevens speaks not only as a sociologist, but as a witness to and participant in many of the events she narrates. She deals masterfully with such prominent figures as Felix Valera, Ivan Illich, Robert Fox, Robert Stern, and Joseph Fitzpatrick, without forgetting such discounted heroines as Las Hijas de Maria." —Review for Religious