The Decline and Fall of Catholic Schools

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with senior editor Mark Bauerlein. Featuring: Peter Meyer on the history of Catholic education in the United States from its heyday in the 1960s to its virtual dissolution in the twenty-first century.

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