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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research hospital headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, it is a 501(c)(3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. [1]
James P. Lyke, After the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis, TN, Father Lyke requested to be sent to Memphis, where he served for nine years as pastor at St. Thomas Church (now St. Augustine). He was the first African American Catholic priest to serve in the state of Tennessee.
Saint Joseph Hospital was a Catholic operated hospital located at 220 Overton Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.It is most well known for being the hospital where Martin Luther King Jr. died at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, an hour after he was shot at Lorraine Motel.
Catholic Charities USA is the national office of 167 local Catholic Charities agencies nationwide. Founded in 1910 as the National Conference of Catholic Charities (NCCC), the organization changed its name in 1986 to Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA). [3] Donna Markham was the first female president to lead CCUSA. She held the position from 2015 ...
Pages in category "Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... (Memphis, Tennessee) Christian Brothers High ...
The Diocese recently told The Commercial Appeal that about 300 students were attending local Catholic schools using ESA funds, and that roughly half of them were attending three schools ― one of ...
Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel, while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church is the largest non-governmental provider of education and medical services in the world. [1]
It is the heritage of Catholic education to lift up those most in need. [4] In 2004, a Memphis man named Steib and the diocese in a sexual abuse lawsuit. The plaintiff claimed that Reverend Juan Carlos Duran, a Bolivian priest at Church of the Ascension in Raleigh, Tennessee, had sexually abused