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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The inner-city school's remarkable revival shows that American education can bridge achievement gaps between white and black as well as rich and poor." -Publishers Weekly "This wondrous story of faith in the power of education, spiritual tenacity in an old American city, and redemption for generations of hardscrabble boys along Newark's High Street is important and timely. Tom McCabe's Miracle... captures the complicated history of the Benedictines on old American ground, shedding a brilliant light on why they have mattered, and still do, to the survival of inner city parochial education in the United States. It also persuasively argues that the decision, in retrospect an extraordinary one, to reopen the school was yet another symbol of Newark's Renaissance and the Benedictine challenge to racism. A triumph!" -- -Clement Alexander Price Rutgers University, Newark A dramatic, riveting account of a school and a city that rose and fell together, and the community of monks who dared to wed hopes for a revived St. Benedict's with Newark's precarious dreams of rebirth. Thomas A. McCabe is a gifted historian; he has crafted this highly lucid narrative with an insider's passion and a scholar's balance and grace. -- -James T. Fisher On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York "A fascinating story of how suburbanization and racism ripped apart one urban Catholic community, and the survivors' brave efforts to piece it back together." -- -Jack Dougherty Trinity College "McCabe deftly explains the Benedictine vow of stability and how it led a group of white, Catholic religious men to remain in a city that was, by all accounts, dying." -- -Margaret McGuinness LaSalle University
