Showing posts with label Catholic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic. Show all posts
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Parents Seek State Funds for Catholic School Attendance Without Requirement to First Attend Failing Public School

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Suit was filed this week in a Georgia state trial court challenging on free exercise grounds the eligibility requirements for participating ...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Exorcist Priest's Defamation Suit May Move Ahead

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In Martins v. Romero ,  (ED MI, Aug. 21, 2026), a Michigan federal district court refused to dismiss a suit by a Catholic priest against a p...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Religious Statues Proposed for Public Building Violate State Constitution

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In Fitzmaurice v. City of Quincy , (MA Sup. Jud. Ct., Aug. 20, 2026), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a trial court's pr...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Suit Challenges Illinois End of Life Options Act

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Suit was filed yesterday in an Illinois federal district court by four Catholic doctors, a Catholic bishop and a Lutheran skilled nursing fa...
Friday, August 07, 2026

Sex Abuse Claimants May Sue to Access Parish and School Assets in Vermont Diocese Bankruptcy

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In In re Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington Vermont ,  (Bkrptcy VT, July 28, 2026), a Vermont federal bankruptcy court issued an order all...
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

Florida AG Tells Catholic Schools to Grant Religious Exemptions from Vaccine Requirements [Corrected]

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier last week sent a letter ( full text ) to Florida's Conference of Catholic Bishops complaining th...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Trump Honors Memory of First U.S.-Born Martyr Beatified by the Catholic Church

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Yesterday, the White House posted a Presidential Message on the 45th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Father Stanley Rother  ( full text ). I...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Catholic Sisters Sue To Invalidate New York's Assisted Suicide Counseling Requirement

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Last week, four Orders of Catholic Sisters along with the Catholic Diocese and Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, filed suit in a New Yor...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

White House Posts Presidential Message on Birthday of St. Francis Xavier Cabrini

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Yesterday, the White House posted a "Presidential Message on the Birthday of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini," which reads in part: ....
Thursday, July 02, 2026

Supreme Court Denies Review in Case of Attorney Held in Contempt for Disclosing Information About Abusive Priest

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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review in Trahant v. Roman Catholic Church,  (Docket No. 25-1260,  certiorari  denied, 6/29/2026). ...
Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Michigan Catholic Charities Sues State Officials Over Ouster as Provider of Women's Substance Abuse Services

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Last week, Catholic Charities serving the Lansing, Michigan area filed suit against the director of Michigan's Department of Health and ...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Michigan AG Releases Report on Sexual Abuse in Saginaw Catholic Diocese

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On June 25, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a 258-page report titled Diocese of Saginaw: A Complete Accounting  ( full text )...
Friday, June 12, 2026

President Issues Message on Catholic Bishops' Honoring of US 250th Anniversary

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Yesterday the White House posted a Presidential Message on U.S. Catholic Bishops Honoring the 250th Anniversary of American Independence ( ...
Friday, June 05, 2026

TRO Under RFRA Extends Legal Immigration Status of Nigerian Deacon

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In Archdiocese of Santa Fe v. Mullin ,  (D NM, June 2, 2026), a New Mexico federal district court issued a temporary restraining order ex pa...
Thursday, June 04, 2026

St. John's Challenges Jurisdiction of NY PERB Over Its Relations with Its Faculty Union

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St. John's University filed suit this week in a New York federal district court challenging on 1st Amendment grounds jurisdiction of the...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Certiorari Denied in Interlocutory Appeal of Church Autonomy Ruling

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The Supreme Court yesterday denied review in Conference of Catholic Bishops v. O'Connell,  (Docket No. 25-849, certiorari denied 5/26/20...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

DHS Seeks Land Near Catholic Shrine for Border Wall Construction

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 As reported by Axios , the Department of Homeland Security is seeking to take by eminent domain 14 acres of land belonging to the Catholic ...
Friday, April 17, 2026

U.S. Catholic Bishops Respond To VP Vance's Criticism of Pope Leo

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In his Palm Sunday Homily last month, Pope Leo XIV said in part: Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects w...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Catholic Hospice Sues Over NY Standards for Care of Transgender Patients

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Last week, Dominican Sisters who operate a home that provides palliative care for indigent, terminally ill cancer patients filed suit in a N...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Cert. Petition Filed in RLUIPA Zoning Case

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 A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed yesterday seeking U.S. Supreme Court review in Missionaries of St. John the Baptist, Inc...