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Notre Dame religious liberty clinic backs lawsuit against church grant discrimination

The University of Notre Dame School of Law. / Credit: Wikimedia CommonsCNA Staff, Jun 14, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA).The University of Notre Dame School of Law s religious liberty initiative announced its support of a federal lawsuit challenging the exclusion of houses of worship from a state historic grant program. The amicus brief, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in the case Mendham Methodist Church v. Morris County, argues that "excluding religious organizations from generally available grant programs" both "violates the law and harms congregations and their surrounding communities," according to a press release from the school s Religious Liberty Clinic. The lawsuit, originally filed last year, concerns a "Historic Preservation Trust Fund" run by Morris County, New Jersey. The county through that fund "distributes money to eligible organizations for the repair, restoration, and preservation of historic local buildi ....

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N.J. weather: Severe thunderstorm watch issued for 17 counties as nasty storms ramp up

Forecasters say some of the thunderstorms could bring small hail, heavy downpours and wind gusts as high as 60 mph late Friday afternoon into Friday night. ....

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Olean school officials cut ribbon on new athletic turf fields, playground

OLEAN — A day more than four years in the making — through a global pandemic, economic stress and an unexpected need to remove about 3,000 truckloads of contaminated soil ....

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