The article explains that secular courts can't resolve religious disputes involving doctrine or church governance, unless they use neutral, secular principles. Courts can review church documents and ...

Cindy Clemishire listens during a hearing in which attorneys for Gateway Church and several of its elders argued the court should dismiss them from her lawsuit alleging defamation. Judge Emily ...

The Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to the argument by a Catholic Charities chapter that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it refused to give the group the same exemption from the ...

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - 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 ...

The cornerstone of the American project is the principle of justice administered under the Rule of Law. Our civic allegiance is not to a monarch, a tribal leader, a church canon, or any specific ...

WASHINGTON – There has been no shortage of religious groups seeking help from the Supreme Court in recent years, including three cases last term that involved the Catholic Church. But the religion at ...

From Justice Sotomayor's unanimous (and, I think, correct) opinion today in Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Indus. Rev. Comm'n: Wisconsin, like many other States, exempts certain ...

The dome of the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison is pictured in an April 2, 2023, photo. On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wis., ...

When can a religious group, like a church or school, lawfully fire an employee for violating its religious teachings? Under a constitutional rule called the "ministerial exception," religious groups ...

Dr. Guy Robert Eyre receives funding for his research on North African Salafism from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. I met Sheikh Ahmed at a small mosque in central Morocco in October 2016. He told me: ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In a victory for religious freedom and church-state separation, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction today in Stinson v. Fayetteville School District No. 1, ...

Ahead of the celebration of Independence Day, Edward Furton, publications director for The National Catholic Bioethics Center, spoke in a lecture in the nation’s capital about the country’s founders ...