Just in time for the Pope’s visit, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has put out a report on urban Catholic schools. The section on Washington, D.C. is written by yours truly. Specifically, it’s about a plan to prevent a few hard-pressed parochial schools from closing by turning them into public-charter schools that are no longer Catholic. The archdiocese, which devised the move, now finds itself in the paradoxical position of watching these schools strip away their Catholicity and hoping it won’t matter.