George Melcher, 75, of Randall, passed away Monday, June 16, 2025, at Aurora Medical Center in Burlington. Early Life He was ...

In 2021, the religious groups appealed the state’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Justices asked New York to reconsider ...

Justices say a nonprofit can qualify for a religious employer exemption even if it employs people from outside its own faith.

The Supreme Court is ordering a New York court to take a new look at whether some religious organizations should be excluded ...

Back in 2024, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Catholic Charities is not exempt from paying unemployment taxes because the charity's operations are not primarily religious. Churches in Wisconsin do ...

Under Wisconsin law, that religious exemption ... While the department recognized that Catholic Charities was supervised by the Catholic church, it said the bureau did not operate primarily ...

St. Rita Catholic Church was affiliated with the Augustinian ... "I spent that first year in my Augustinian training in Racine, Wisconsin, which would have been in the Province of the Midwest ...

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 ...

a majority of justices appeared ready to reverse a Wisconsin state court ruling that said Catholic Charities was ineligible for the tax exemptions that the Catholic Church and other religious ...

the elderly and children with special needs as an expression of the social ministry of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Superior." Roth said Wisconsin's law is meant to prevent state ...

One Catholic Charities chapter contends that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it rejected the group’s application for an exemption from a state unemployment tax that the state gives to ...

executive director of the Wisconsin Council of Churches, of the perennial role faith traditions play as moral supports for people facing challenges. A view looking west from the Hoan Bridge onto ...