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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: Founding and Growing the Cristo Rey Network of Schools with Fr. John Foley, SJ
Description: Fr. John P. Foley, SJ, spent 34 years as a missionary in Peru -- a full career in most lines of work. But then, in 1995, he was missioned back to the United States to start a high school for Latino students from low-income backgrounds in Chicago. Despite immense challenges -- like not knowing where the school would be even at the press conference announcing there would be a new school -- Cristo Rey Jesuit High School was founded in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood in 1996.
Centered on an innovative corporate work study model, through which students spend a day a week working with...