A New-Millennium Miracle in Memphis Memphis Diocesan Schools Honored Annual Meeting of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

The Catholic school system of the Diocese of Memphis, Tenn., was honored June 26 by the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management during a banquet in Philadelphia. Steps the diocese took this decade to make Catholic schools accessible to inner-city children have attracted widespread interest.
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Miracle in Memphis National Catholic Reporter,
By MICHAEL HUMPHREY Memphis, Tenn.
Drive southeast on Lamar Avenue here in Memphis and the story of America’s urban core flashes by at 40 mph. You see a housing project now boarded up, fenced, awaiting demolition. You count six liquor stores within a two-mile radius, while offices that once housed professional services and locally owned retail stand vacant. Cars and SUVs pass around you, hurrying away from downtown toward Interstate 240, a loop highway that connects suburbs. Along the way, you might miss St. John Parish and the St. John Catholic School. Built during the late 1940s and early ’50s, the facades are simple and sit several hundred feet back from the busy four-lane street. read more...

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