In trying to find a “typical” Catholic school for Pope Francis to visit in the United States, planners found Our Lady Queen of Angels in New York.
But given the diversity of situations of U.S. Catholic schools, the inner-city Harlem school gave the pope only a glimpse of the wide variety of models of Catholic education available in various parts of the country.
Our Lady Queen of Angels, for example, is part of a nonprofit partnership that operates half a dozen schools for the Archdiocese of New York. But other schools are in dilapidated buildings, scrambling for funding, staff and …Read More>>