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Catholic Charities Is Not Exempt from Unemployment Compensation Statute 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...

Is Catholic Charities Helping Turn America Blue?The Heritage Foundation recently issued a shocking report tracking cell phone data originating from non-governmental agencies helping to relocate illegal immigrates to various locations across our nation. The report shows that 71% of tracked cell phones end-up in Republican Congressional districts.Catholic Charities is one of the organizations specifically singled-out by Heritage in its analysis. In phase four of its investigation, Heritage focused on geofencing Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, located in San Juan, Texas. Nearly 3,400 unique mobile devices were identified as being on-premises. These devices were later tracked to 433 congressional...

Local bishop calls-out Catholic charity leader who said Church is ‘racist’ 'Dr. McCann’s blunt presentation was interpreted by many as levying false accusations against ‘whites’ and the Catholic Church' Bishop John Daly of the Diocese of Spokane SPOKANE, Washington, July 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic bishop has publicly called-out the President and CEO of Catholic Charities Eastern Washington after he recently declared that the Catholic Church is “racist” because Jesus was ‘white’ in a video now viewed over 40,000 times online. Bishop John Daly of the Diocese of Spokane, where the charity is based, said that the Catholic community...