Hughes High

This morning's T-P supplements its feature on incoming Archbishop Gregory Aymond with a list of our Bishops/Archbishops through the years. The names of several Archbishops now grace (ha!) the marquee at area Catholic high schools.

What's interesting to note is that the location of the Archbishop schools neatly fits the pattern of 20th Century outmigration of white middle-class Catholics from New Orleans into the suburbs. Archbishops Chapelle and Rummel high schools each opened in a booming East Jefferson in 1962. Archbishop Shaw High was established on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish in the same year. The Archdiocese's controversial restructuring plans in the wake of the Federal Flood show up in the relocation of Archbishop Hannan High School from St. Bernard to St. Tammany Parish as well as the closure of Archbishop Blenk High School in Gretna.

All of this raises the question, when the time comes to honor the outgoing patriarch, where should we put Archbishop Hughes High School? Mandeville? Central Lock Up? Broadway South?

There was a farmer, had a dog...

Certainly I am not the only person who noticed that today's T-P front page graphic displaying all the church closings fittingly resembles a well-known Cat'lick revenue generating device.



More here.

Also here.

Update: Also just wondering... Has the Archdiocese considered including in this plan the creation of a "Jazz Church"? Or perhaps a church with a "culinary focus"

Upperdate: Please see this comprehensive post about the church closings from Maitri.