Now it will decide whether to take these recent precedents to a new extreme by ordering Oklahoma to establish and fund a Catholic charter school owned and operated by the church itself.

St. Mary’s High School has seen many changes over its 75-year history, but not everything has changed.

In the 2024-2025 school year, there were 1.6 million Catholic school students and more than 150,000 professional staff members, with a student to teacher ratio of about 11 to 1.

Although the country nationalized private schools in 1960, "We have full freedom and dignity," said Apostolic Carmel provincial Sr. Mary Nilanthi.

Soon, Catholic schools around the state could receive a much larger blessing from the Legislature: a $1 billion school voucher program, possibly growing by billions more in the years to come.

Defense, points in paint spark victory for St. Mary Catholic in WIAA Division 4 state semifinal girls basketball game.

In the 1960s, most Catholic school teachers were members of religious orders. Now, many schools have one or two, or no nuns at all.

ORANGE, Texas — St. Mary Catholic School will close at the end of the current academic year due to declining enrollment and financial challenges, Bishop David Toups announced Monday.

Catholic schools across New York City are falling like dominoes thanks to skyrocketing tuition prices and a deteriorating connection to religion, according to experts and dismal statistics.