Wisconsin
Spiritual libertarianism swatted down in Wisconsin
By Mark Silk — April 3, 2024
(RNS) — Conservative legal groups are trying to erase a distinction between religious employers and religious activity.
A Wisconsin ruling on Catholic Charities raises the bar for religious tax exemptions
By Todd Richmond — March 14, 2024
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. religious institutions enjoy tax exemptions, most notably from property taxes. Debate has raged for decades over whether the exemptions are fair.
Wisconsin Senate approves amendment blocking church closures during public state of emergencies
By Associated Press — November 8, 2023
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The amendment comes in reaction to a stay-at-home order Democratic Gov. Tony Evers issued in 2020 to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Ex-Cardinal McCarrick charged in Wisconsin with sex abuse
By Harm Venhuizen — April 18, 2023
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A criminal complaint filed Friday alleges that McCarrick, who defrocked in 2019 after a Vatican investigation found he had sexually molested adults and children, fondled a man in 1977 while staying at a cabin on Geneva Lake in southeastern Wisconsin.
Faith-based groups on border unswayed after lawmakers’ call to investigate them
By Alejandra Molina — December 22, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The gospel compels us to do so. If that’s unpopular with certain members of Congress, so be it,’ said Anthony Granado with Catholic Charities USA.
In a Wisconsin town, voters fear for America under attack
By Tim Sullivan — December 1, 2022
HUDSON, Wisconsin (AP) — In pockets of America, the U.S. government orchestrated COVID-19 fears to cement its power, the IRS is buying up huge stocks of ammunition and former President Barack Obama may be the country’s most powerful person.
How a small town in Wisconsin became home to four Dharmic houses of worship
By Richa Karmarkar — September 9, 2022
(RNS) — The Midwest has offered the South Asian immigrant families what it has offered any immigrant group: Space to call their own.
Wisconsin megachurch pastor Stuart Briscoe, lifelong broadcast evangelist, dies at 91
By Riley Farrell — August 5, 2022
(RNS) — His Wisconsin church remains the largest in the state, and his media ministry, 'Telling the Truth,' continues to broadcast online and on the radio.
America sacramentalizes guns as God’s gift to the good. This is heresy.
By Thomas Reese — November 30, 2021
(RNS) — Recent high-profile murder cases show America's gun culture overwhelming its ability to protect its citizens.
‘All-in’ Buddhist practice combines meditation and martial arts
By Liz Kineke — June 8, 2021
(RNS) — Athletic types are drawn to Rinzai Zen training's physical demands. They stay for the Japanese flute.
Wisconsin priest digs in to refuse bishop’s demand to resign
By Todd Richmond and David Crary — June 6, 2021
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Rev. James Altman calls himself “a lowly priest” serving a blue-collar city in western Wisconsin. But when his bishop demanded his resignation – after a series of divisive remarks about politics and the pandemic – Altman refused to oblige and has since raised more than $640,000 from his conservative supporters […]
In a rare move, Catholic nuns set out to build a new monastery
By Katelyn Ferral — December 15, 2020
(RNS) — Rarer still, millennial recruits are necessitating the move to larger quarters.
The GOP’s Catholic voter problem
By Ryan Burge — November 6, 2020
(RNS) — It’s no coincidence that three Rust Belt states with large populations of Catholics helped put the Democrats back in the White House in January of 2021.
‘It took a long time to get here’: Mauree Turner becomes Oklahoma’s first Muslim lawmaker
By Alejandra Molina — November 6, 2020
(RNS) — The 27-year-old Black, nonbinary community organizer said she has heard from many who 'didn’t feel like they had a place in politics.'
Former Catholic brother returned to face Mississippi charges
By Michael Rezendes — September 3, 2020
(AP) — Two men have accused Paul A. West, once a Franciscan Friar and fourth-grade teacher, of molesting them in Mississippi, Wisconsin and New York while they were elementary school students.
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