It's also a microcosm of a greater national reality — the U.S. is no longer a majority white Christian country, said Robert P. Jones, the chief executive officer of the Washington, D.C.-based Public Religion Research Institute.
Jones wrote about a similar evolution of another church, the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, Calif, in his new book "The End of White Christian America." The landmark was built by Reformed Church in America televangelist Robert Schuller, but it was sold to the Catholic Diocese of Orange in 2012 after Schuller's ministry went bankrupt. Now called Christ Cathedral, it offers Mass in multiple languages, including Spanish and Vietnamese.
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