One hundred and forty-one years ago, the first Sisters of Charity of Nazareth came to Memphis to teach.

But Sister Trudy Foster would like to make this very clear: She was not one of them.

“I may look like it,” she said. “But I was not here in 1884.”

A Memphis church plans to open a Downtown Montessori school. Here's when and what to know.

Neighbourhood schools are especially important in urban areas where the poor have found low cost (and low quality) housing.  Neighbourhood Catholic schools have a way of drawing parents and the whole community together.