Eighty percent of New Orleans Catholic school students re-enrolled

Published: 2005-10-17

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- Within 40 days after Hurricane Katrina hit, 80 percent of the nearly 60,000 students previously enrolled in Catholic grade and high schools in the New Orleans Archdiocese were back in Catholic schools, Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes said Oct. 14. "Forty-five percent of our schools are back in operation. Sixty percent of our students are in Catholic schools in the archdiocese. And we estimate that 20 percent more are in Catholic schools in other dioceses," the New Orleans archbishop told a national gathering of Catholic lay and church leaders in Philadelphia. He said the neighboring Diocese of Baton Rouge, La., alone had taken in nearly10 percent of the Catholic students from New Orleans. Archbishop Hughes spoke at a luncheon during the inaugural meeting of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, held Oct. 13-14 at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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