For Catholic Schools, Crisis and Catharsis
By PAUL VITELLO and WINNIE HU
Published: January 17, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/education/18catholic.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=nyregion
“My grandmother and grandfather, my aunts and uncles, both my parents, my wife and I and now our kids have gone to Holy Name,” said Martin J. Cottingham, 38, a member of the class of 1984 of Holy Name of Jesus elementary school in Brooklyn, which would merge with a neighboring school under the Brooklyn Diocese’s reorganization plan. “The world can change, but if you got your school, your church, your sports all within a couple of blocks, you’re safe.”