Catholic education in the Archdiocese of New York

Catholic schools find status is diminished

"So what was lost, in a single day last week, were the identities of 22 neighborhoods honed over generations. What emerged was an unmistakable milepost. The mighty parochial school system that rose a century and a half ago from immigrant ghettos to serve as a portal into American society for millions - and as a virtually unlimited source of power for the institutional Catholic Church - is fading into history."