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Sun Aug 24, 2014, 07:01 PM Aug 2014

Fallout in the neighborhood when a Catholic school closes

Lauren Markoe | August 21, 2014

(RNS) What happens to a community when a Roman Catholic school closes its doors?

That’s the question Nicole Stelle Garnett and Margaret F. Brinig, two Notre Dame law professors, pondered as they studied closures in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

There were 7,000 Catholic schools in the U.S. in 2010, down from 13,000 in 1960, according to the National Catholic Education Association. The decline, rooted in the migration of parishioners to the suburbs and the secularization of Catholic culture, has been dubbed the “closure crisis” within the church.

Religion News Service asked Garnett about what she and Brinig found in their investigation, which resulted in their new book: “Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools’ Importance in Urban America.”

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/08/21/fallout-neighborhood-catholic-schools-closes/

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