Posted on 12/16/2022 10:13:24 AM PST by ebb tide
In Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. State of Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, (WI App., Dec. 13, 2022), a Wisconsin state appellate court held that Catholic Charities and its sub-entities are not exempt from the Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Act as organizations "operated primarily for religious purposes." It emphasized that the statute should be "liberally construed to effect unemployment compensation coverage for workers who are economically dependent upon others in respect to their wage-earning status." The court said that it must look to the work of Catholic Charities, not the Catholic Church itself, to determine whether there is an exemption. Deciding that the court should look both to motives and activities, the court concluded that while Catholic Charities has a religious motivation for its work, the nature of its activities is not religious. The court said in part:
[T]he activities of CCB and its sub-entities are the provision of charitable social services that are neither inherently or primarily religious activities. CCB and its sub-entities do not operate to inculcate the Catholic faith; they are not engaged in teaching the Catholic religion, evangelizing, or participating in religious rituals or worship services with the social service participants; they do not require their employees, participants, or board members to be of the Catholic faith; participants are not required to attend any religious training, orientation, or services; their funding comes almost entirely from government contracts or private companies, not from the Diocese of Superior; and they do not disseminate any religious material to participants. Nor do CCB and its sub-entities provide program participants with an “education in the doctrine and discipline of the church.”...
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This relates to Wisconsin state law only.
Also, it distinguishes a church entity from a charitable not-for profit entity. Fairly technical definition.
Imagine they would be charged with a few other offenses if they DID evangelize for the Church. Although I don’t think the RCC does evangelizing.
For now. But hopefully it will be a precedent for future rulings in other states.
And that is why I do not support “Catholic Charities”.
Why? For tax purposes the definition of a "church" is pretty straight-forward. Congregation, church teaching, spiritual leadership, etc.
A separate non-profit usually won't meet the definition of a "church".
Saying that they aren't is just stating the obvious.
Catholic “Charities” takes government money to settle “immigrants” in US cities.
They pretty much single-handedly turned Minneapolis into Little Mogadishu.
But how "separate" is Catholic Charities from the Catholic Church?
Letter from the Archbishop — Catholic Charities collection will be held at Christmas Masses
How is that different than taking up a Christmas collection for the DNC, another non-profit?
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