10 Celebrities Who Went to Catholic School

Manhattan's prestigious Convent of the Sacred Heart Catholic School has quite a list of alma maters. The $38,000 per year all-girls school boasts famous alums like Caroline Kennedy and Paris Hilton, while Suri Cruise is one of the more recent attendees, trading in her fashionista frocks for a simple school uniform.

Check out ten more celebs who went to Catholic school.

Lady Gaga

Before she wore meat dresses, Lady Gaga also wore those telltale pinafores. Of her time at Convent of the Sacred Heart, Gaga told New York Magazine: "Sacred Heart may have been prestigious, but there were lots of different kinds of girls. Some had extreme wealth, others were on welfare and scholarship, and some were in the middle, which was my family. All our money went into education and the house."

Bruce Springsteen

Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen attended the St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Freehold, N.J., where he was a self-described "good Catholic boy." According to America Magazine, years later the rock star performed a show in his old grade school gymnasium to help his former parish hire a Spanish-speaking priest and buy a local building to use as a community center for Spanish parishioners.

Madonna

As a young girl in Michigan, pop icon Madonna attended St. Frederick's Catholic School and St. Andrew's Catholic School, where she described the uniforms as "drab." But crucifixes were a different story. In 1985 she told Time: "When I went to Catholic schools, I thought the huge crucifixes nuns wore around their necks with their habits were really beautiful." Which may explain Madge's ongoing obsession with them.

Susan Sarandon

In 1968, the Academy Award winning actress received her B.A. in drama from Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. But in 2011, she was slammed by the Catholic League after referring to Pope Benedict XVI as "a Nazi."

Sylvester Stallone

The "Rocky" movies aren't Sly Stallone's first connection to Philly. As a teenager he attended the Center City Philadelphia Catholic School, Notre Dame Academy. He told the Dove Foundation, "The journey of Rocky was kind of like mine. I was raised in a Catholic home… I went to Catholic schools. I was taught the faith and went as far as I could with it until one day I got out into the so-called real world. I was presented with temptation and I lost my way and made a lot of bad choices. I felt the character of Rocky sort of did that too." So it's no wonder that one of the first images you see in the "Rocky" movie is a picture of Jesus.

Will Smith

"Men in Black 3" star Will Smith also attended Catholic school in the City of Brotherly Love-- even though he wasn't Catholic. The former Fresh Prince described his Philly neighborhood as a melting pot, telling Reader's Digest, "It was probably 50 percent Orthodox Jewish. One neighborhood over were all the pretty little Muslim girls. Mine was a Baptist household, and I went to a Catholic school. I was surrounded by different religions."

Kim Kardashian

The reality star attended Marymount Catholic High School in Los Angeles, along with sisters Kourtney and Khloe. Of her high school days, Kim told Seventeen: "I was in the popular girl group, but I was nice. I was best friends with my sister and the nerds."

John Slattery

The "Mad Men" star went so the all-boys St. Sebastian's Catholic School in Newton, Massachusetts. But according to an interview in Boston Common Magazine, Slattery and his pals wreaked havoc at the prep school. "We turned it into a zoo," the actor said. Slattery topped off his Catholic education with a fine arts degree from The Catholic University of America in 1984.

Cyndi Lauper

The quirky pop singer told talk show host Piers Morgan that after getting kicked out of Catholic school as a kid she's a "recovering Catholic." "I was thrown out of two grade school Catholic schools," Lauper said. "There was one time I was actually just praying to leave that place and then I got expelled and I thought, ‘There is a God.’"

Tom Cruise

And yes, Suri's dad even went to Catholic school, including a stint in the seminary! According to Newsweek, , Cruise (then known as Tommy Mapother) attended St. Francis Seminary in Cincinnati in the mid-‘70s, where he played soccer and basketball for the Saints. But Father Ric Schneider never really saw the future actor as a priest. "I think he went there to get an education. I didn't get a sense he was serious about the priesthood or the religious life," the priest said. Still, Tom's former classmates were stunned by the movie star's later switch to Scientology. Former classmate Don Weller told Newsweek: "With only 68 people in the whole class, you got to know everybody pretty well…To see him go over to Scientology was really kind of a shocker."