BOSTON – As with many U.S. religious institutions, the traditional European-American Catholic demographic is graying in New England. An emerging face increasingly represents the American Catholic nationwide – and is slowly becoming the visage of the typical Massachusetts Catholic, too: the millennial Latino.
But while Hispanics make up 40 percent of the approximately 78 million Catholics in the U.S., only 25 percent of Catholic parishes actively serve Latinos, according to a 2014 report from Boston College.
Massachusetts regulators have reprimanded and fined a doctor at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester in connection with his medical marijuana prescribing practices in Maine.
According to the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, Dr. William Ortiz agreed in a consent order that he had been disciplined in September 2014 by licensing officials in Maine "for having engaged in unprofessional conduct" stemming from his issuance of medical marijuana certificates to 59 patients over two days in Maine and for keeping incomplete records on those patients.
