Catholic Education News Reveals Deepening Apostasy
The cited EWTN News article from February 26, 2026, reports on four separate items concerning Catholic education in the United States: the closure of Lourdes University in Ohio; a federal lawsuit challenging Colorado’s ban on public funding for religious schools; the death of civil rights leader and former Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis; and the relocation of the Jesuit School of Theology to Santa Clara University’s main campus, funded by a Lilly Endowment grant to establish a “Pope Francis Institute for Pastoral Flourishing.” On the surface, these are disparate institutional updates. However, analyzed through the unchangeable lens of Catholic doctrine as it existed before the 1958 revolution, they collectively expose a systemic collapse into naturalism, modernist heresy, and the utter abandonment of the supernatural purpose of Catholic education. The article’s very framing—treating these as neutral “news” within a “Catholic” context—is the first and gravest error, normalizing a state of profound apostasy.

