Pew report finds 35% of U.S. Catholics are college educated

Historic Vermont campus offered free to Catholic nonprofit by donor Entrepreneur Raj Peter Bhakta said he seeks a Catholic nonprofit to apply by March 31 to “revive” the former campus of Green Mountain College for “future generations of the Catholic Church.” Catholic bishops to Supreme Court: Abandoning birthright citizenship ‘immoral’ The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is asking the Supreme Court to uphold birthright citizenship. However, not all Catholics agree with this interpretation of Church social teaching. Abortion advocacy group in El Salvador announces its legal dissolution El Salvador passed a Foreign Agents Law requiring NGOs with foreign backing to register as such. Faced with that obligation, an abortion advocacy group decided to dissolve rather than register. Pew report finds 35% of U.S. Catholics are college educated The number of college-educated Catholics falls in line with the overall share of U.S. adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher, the report said. Religious freedom commission urges State Department to add Turkey to ‘special watch list’ The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom similarly called for the State Department to pressure Turkey over its treatment of Christians in 2025. Trump administration urged to act as Armenian government increases pressure on Apostolic Church “The reality is that the government’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church, which has been going on for well over a year, continues unabated to this day,” Ambassador Alberto Fernandez said. U.S. bishops recover refugee resettlement funds, end lawsuit against State Department Contracts were not reinstated after the Trump administration’s suspension of contracts under the U.S. Refugee Assistance Program. Sri Lanka police arrest former top intelligence official over 2019 Easter suicide bombing Former director of military intelligence during 2019 Easter suicide bombings in Sri Lanka is arrested, Irish journalist decries blacklash over Lenten ashes, a new church opens in Myanmar, and more. Lourdes University in Ohio announces closure amid ‘mounting financial pressures’ A roundup of recent Catholic education news in the U.S. Diocese of Syracuse announces final court approval of $176 million abuse settlement The diocese announced the major payout last year and comes amid a wave of recent abuse settlements in the northeast. Eighth grader who survived Annunciation school shooting: ‘Protect us from guns’ “No one should have to go through what we went through,” said Lydia Kaiser, an eighth grader who survived the school shooting in August 2025 at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Paul Thigpen, theologian who explored ‘wondrous’ question of extraterrestrial life, dies at 71 A convert to Catholicism, Thigpen wrote prolifically on saints, the Blessed Mother, and the possibility of intelligent alien life, among other topics. Spanish bishops speak out after leaks of their meeting with Leo XIV As various media outlets claimed to have leaked information about what was said during a meeting of the Spanish bishops with Pope Leo, the Spanish Bishops’ Conference issued a clarification. Nigeria ‘continues to bleed endlessly,’ archbishop concerned about ‘senseless massacres’ Nigeria Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji recently spoke at length about the country’s challenges, calling for proactive security measures, ethical leadership, and credible elections.

Can the new leader of Germany’s bishops prevent a schism? Bishop Heiner Wilmer, new president of the German Bishops’ Conference, could take a more conciliatory approach to Rome even as debates continue over the Synodal Way.