More than 85 people attended the October 7, 2015 symposium titled "Hispanic Catholics in 21st-Century Parish Life" at the University of Notre Dame Conference Center. Hosffman Ospino of Boston College delivered the keynote address; Ospino was the principal investigator of the National Study of Catholic Parishes with Hispanic Ministry. Respondents were Edward Hahnenberg of John Carroll University; Christian Smith of the University of Notre Dame; and Dora Tobar of the Pastoral Office for Family Life & Hispanic Ministry, Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana.
The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism sponsored this event, and the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame was the cosponsor.