“If Catholic schools were a state, they’d be the highest performing in the nation on all four N.A.E.P. tests,” Kathleen Porter-Magee, the superintendent of Partnership Schools, pointed out on Twitter.

Advocates from three faith traditions lobbied together for a program that would help fund science and math education in New York state’s religious schools.

U.S. District Judge Richard Young said the Indianapolis Archdiocese and its schools can select, retain or dismiss faculty according to their religious standards.

The cardinal who, until now, served as the Vatican’s chief archivist and librarian, had long been rumored to be named prefect of this newly created Vatican office.

Readers respond to our September editorial, "Catholic Education on the Margins," on school voucher programs.

There were once over 30 Catholic high schools in the city of Detroit. There are now three.