Ongoing lawsuits involving Catholic Charities have put the Trump administration in an unusual position: an ally in one controversy and a primary opponent in another.
The Trump administration will back Catholic Charities’ religious liberty case at the Supreme Court on Monday amid separate legal disputes with the organization over taxpayer funding for refugee resettlement programs.
Local Catholic Charities agencies are led by the bishop of the diocese where they are located but may choose to join the nationwide Catholic Charities USA membership organization.
Catholic Charities Bureau, an arm of the Diocese of Superior in Wisconsin, is asking the Supreme Court to find that it qualifies for Wisconsin’s unemployment tax exemption for religious organizations, which the state denied after determining the ministry’s services to the poor and needy could have been provided by a secular…
