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by bcadmin | Jun 28, 2022 | Becket Fund, Church in the US, Football, lead, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB | 0 |
Religious liberty advocates are hailing a June 27 Supreme Court decision that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games as a landmark ruling for religious exercise in public life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 3, 2022 | Becket Fund, Church in the US, lead, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB | 0 |
The USCCB had a friend-of-the-court brief filed on its behalf March 2 in support of a former high school football coach who sued a school district after he lost his job for refusing to stop kneeling and praying on the fifty-yard line after games.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | Associated Press, Becket Fund, Church in the US, Iowa, News, religious liberty | 0 |
A state panel agreed Monday to spend nearly $2 million to settle two federal lawsuits brought against the University of Iowa in 2017 after a religious group denied a gay student a leadership role.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 16, 2021 | Becket Fund, Blaine Amendments, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, First Amendment, Maine, News, Religious exemptions | 0 |
The Supreme Court are taking up a Maine case against a rule that lets families who live in towns without public schools receive public tuition funds to send their children to another public or private school as long as it’s not a religious school.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2021 | Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Becket, Becket Fund, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Gay Catholics, LGBT Catholics, LGBTI Catholics, News, Same-sex "Marriage" | 0 |
A federal judge sided with an Indianapolis archdiocesan high school and the Indianapolis Archdiocese in a lawsuit filed against them by a former guidance counselor whose contract was not renewed because of her same-sex marriage.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2021 | Becket, Becket Fund, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Governor Greg Abbott, immigrants and refugees, News, Sister Norma Pimentel, Texas, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
A Catholic Charities official in southern Texas who oversees outreach to hundreds of migrant families entering the United States daily has asked a federal court to allow the agency to continue its mission of serving vulnerable people.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Becket Fund, Bishop Nelson J. Perez, Catholic Social Services, Church in the US, Foster care, lead, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
Some are heralding a unanimous Supreme Court decision that upholds the ability of a faith-based foster care agency to operate according to its faith as a statement from the nation’s highest court of its commitment to religious liberty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 23, 2021 | Associated Press, Becket Fund, Church in the US, Iowa, News, Religious Freedom | 0 |
University of Iowa administrators can be held liable for monetary damages for improperly barring a Christian student group that rejects homosexual relationships, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, in a victory for religious conservatives on college campuses.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 9, 2021 | Becket, Becket Fund, Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, News, Transgender | 0 |
Attorneys for doctors and hospitals argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit March 3 that they shouldn’t be forced to perform gender-transition surgeries required under the Affordable Care Act, stressing this is an issue of conscience.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2021 | Becket, Becket Fund, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, Jews, New York, News, synagogue | 0 |
A federal judge in Brooklyn Feb. 9 permanently blocked New York state capacity limits for worship at Orthodox synagogues in areas with high rates of COVID-19 infections.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Becket Fund, Church in the US, lead, LGBTQ, News, President Joe Biden, Religious Freedom | 0 |
Last week, a federal ruling in North Dakota flew under the radar that maintains Catholic medical professionals, hospitals and organizations right to refuse performing or providing insurance coverage for gender transition procedures, or insurance coverage for gender transition drugs, if it violates their religious beliefs of medical judgement.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 3, 2021 | Becket, Becket Fund, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, religious liberty, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB | 0 |
History may show that religious liberties under the Donald Trump administration enjoyed an elevated level of support not seen perhaps since the administration of President George W. Bush.
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