For some participants in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and around the world, this after-Mass time begins a unique evening pilgrimage that involves stopping and praying at a number of ...

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward a Catholic charitable organization pushing back against the state of Wisconsin in the latest religious rights case to come before the court.

The group is seeking to be exempt from the state's unemployment compensation program so it can join the Wisconsin Catholic Church’s private program, which they say would save them more money ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic on Monday toward a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state's unemployment insurance tax in the latest ...

A majority of the justices seemed likely to side with Catholic Charities, but they debated where to draw the line for religious exemptions.

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When I joined Catholic ... the Church explicitly forbids. This ruling has real consequences for how we operate. By having to pay into the state system, we are cut off from the Wisconsin Bishops ...

This also means that Catholic Charities cannot join the Wisconsin Catholic Church’s better and more efficient unemployment program. We remain steadfast in our mission, but this decision ...

March 31 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court, during arguments Monday, appeared to side with Catholic Charities ... to the tax under Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Act. Churches already receive ...

the elderly and children with special needs as an expression of the social ministry of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Superior." Wisconsin state officials in 1972 determined that the group was ...

Gómez said. That led the Catholic Church to accuse Wisconsin of having a peculiar view of what constitutes “religious” behavior. “Wisconsin’s crabbed understanding of religion,” the ...