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The article focuses on the efforts of Edward Hallinan in leading Saint Martin de Porres, an African-American parish school in the northern part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hallinan became the sixth priest of the school in 1997. Due to the decline of enrollment in 1993, the archdiocese consolidated three parishes in the region. The parish school ran a deficit when he took over but help came from Saint Katherine of Siena parish which donated an amount for clothing and food for Saint Martin.

The article offers news briefs from the Catholic Church in the U.S. Tuition Program Inc.'s filing for bankruptcy has left fourteen Catholic schools in New Jersey, New York, and Texas scramble for funds to compensate the missing tuition fee collections. The Los Angeles Archdiocese is under scrutiny for allegedly covering-up sexual abuse of their priests. The Catholic teachers' union has rallied outside the bishops residence after the union was being replaced with an employee relations program.

Outlines the recommendation of American bishops to bolster the Catholic school system in the United States. Two trends shaping the school effort; Information on the changes of Catholic schools from 1972 to 1992; Escalating cost of tuition fees; Two strategies of the tuition-based system.

Discusses the controversies surrounding the Catholic schools system and the threat of increasing tuition costs. Four elements viewed to stop and reverse the growth of Catholic schools; Trends in religious education in the United States; Role of Catholic schools in the American culture.

Reports on the financial aspect of Catholic schools in the United States (US). Original intention of church leaders for Catholic schools; Decline in the parish support of elementary schools; Status of Catholic elementary schools in Los Angeles, California; Several financial questions about school and parish operations.

Reports on developments in the dioceses of Hartford, Connecticut and Trenton, New Jersey. Controversial issues to be tackled by the staff of The American Catholic Northeast magazine; Plan to ask every parish in the Trenton diocese to give at least four percent of its monthly, Easter and Christmas collections to a Catholic high school.