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In Mary's reign, these religious policies were reversed, England was re-united with the Catholic Church and Protestantism was suppressed. The Elizabethan Settlement was an attempt to end this religious turmoil. The Act of Supremacy of 1558 re-established the Church of England's independence from Rome.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014), is a landmark decision [1] [2] in United States corporate law by the United States Supreme Court allowing privately held for-profit corporations to be exempt from a regulation that its owners religiously object to, if there is a less restrictive means of furthering the law's interest, according to the provisions of the Religious Freedom ...
Map of the historic counties of England showing the percentage of registered Catholics in the population in 1715–1720 [1]. Recusancy (from Latin: recusare, lit. 'to refuse' [2]) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.
New York's highest court on Tuesday ruled that employers' health insurance plans have to cover medically necessary abortions, rejecting a lawsuit by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany claiming ...
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case about whether a charitable group linked with the Catholic Church can claim a religious exemption from Wisconsin’s unemployment tax system.
The Diocese of Syracuse, New York, has agreed to a $100 million settlement with parishioners who claimed they were preyed on by priests, the biggest payout by a Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S ...
The Westminster Conference of 1559 was a religious disputation held early in the reign of Elizabeth I of England. Although the proceedings themselves were perfunctory, the outcome shaped the Elizabethan religious settlement and resulted in the authorisation of the 1559 Book of Common Prayer .
At this time, largest settlement against the Catholic Church and second largest individual sum paid. [30] 2018, Dec: Saint Paul and Minneapolis, MN: $210 million: 450: Largest bankruptcy settlement in the country; $40 million from the archdiocese and parishes, $170 million from insurers [31] [32] 2024 Los Angeles, CA 300 of clergy members ...