Full Description
Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through this examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Rise of a Parochial School System
Chapter 3: "The Immaculate": One School's Experience
Chapter 4: Urban Exodus: Depopulation and Urban Parish Schools
Chapter 5: Demographic Change and Urban Parish Schools
Chapter 6: Out of These Ashes: Vatican II and Catholic Identity
Chapter 7: A House Divided: Conclusions
Epilogue
Bibliography
