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The Supreme Court’s top religion case this term focuses on faith-based foster care services, but it may hold implications for a much wider variety of religiously motivated work. In Fulton v. Philadelphia, justices have an opportunity to clarify when the government must accommodate religious objectors, a move that could make it easier for faith-based organizations to operate according to their beliefs. “The Supreme Court has actually signaled it may reconsider some old precedents that made it harder for religious people to win their cases,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel for the Bec...

The Tablet May 7, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court, shown in this archive photo, is the next stop in the Diocese of Albany’s fight to avoid complying with the state of New York’s mandate for employers to provide abortion coverage in their insurance plans. (Photo: Will Dunham, Reuters, via CNS) WINDSOR TERRACE — The Diocese of Albany, and 13 other petitioners, including Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case opposing New York’s abortion coverage mandate.  At issue is the New York Department of Financial Services’ order that ...

Members of the Sisterhood of Saint Mary, a group of Anglican nuns, are among several religious organizations asking the United States Supreme Court to hear their challenge against a New York state mandate requiring employers to cover abortion in their employees' healthcare plans. | Becket A group of nuns and other religious organizations in New York are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case against a 2017 state mandate requiring employers to cover abortions in their employee healthcare plans.  Led by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, a coalition of religious organizations fi...

Members of the Sisterhood of Saint Mary, a group of Anglican nuns, are among several religious organizations asking the United States Supreme Court to hear their challenge against a New York state mandate requiring employers to cover abortion in their employees' healthcare plans. | Becket A group of nuns and other religious organizations in New York are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case against a 2017 state mandate requiring employers to cover abortions in their employee healthcare plans.  Led by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, a coalition of religious organizations fi...

Supreme Court conservatives may reset balance between LGBTQ rights and religious liberty The pediment of the Supreme Court building. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) April 13, 2021 7:44 AM PT WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court is set to decide soon whether conservative Christians have a constitutional right to refuse to work with same-sex couples while participating in a city-funded foster care program that forbids such discrimination. It is the latest and possibly most significant culture-wars clash between the 1st Amendment’s right to the free exercise of religion — w...