National Catholic Reporter: Miracle in Memphis
April 4th, 2008
Drive southeast on Lamar Avenue here in Memphis and the story of America’s urban core flashes by at 40 mph. You see a housing project now boarded up, fenced, awaiting demolition. You count six liquor stores within a two-mile radius, while offices that once housed professional services and locally owned retail stand vacant. Cars and SUVs pass around you, hurrying away from downtown toward Interstate 240, a loop highway that connects suburbs. Along the way, you might miss St. John Parish and the St. John Catholic School. Built during the late 1940s and early ’50s, the facades street.
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