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24 Apr 2014, 4:20 pm
These are some of the activities in putting up a church which involves some legal matter. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 5:01 am
[Church autonomy coexists with state responsibility, as a matter of history and theory.] [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 5:28 pm
Fortunately, nobody cares what the United Church thinks about Israeli settlements, or anything else for that matter, because the United Church doesn’t matter any more. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 4:00 am
The amended complaint alleges that each plaintiff is “a registered member” of the church; defendants dispute their membership....Membership in a church is a core ecclesiastical matter. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 4:10 am
In dismissing the suit, the court said in part:Texas courts have consistently held that the relationship between an organized church and its ministers is its lifeblood, and matters concerning this relationship must be recognized as of prime ecclesiastical concern.The court similarly held that the questions of whether members excommunicated by one faction could enter the church and whether they could vote on sale of church property were also covered by the… [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 4:05 am
A suit was filed this week in a California federal district court by a Unitarian Church that was removed by election officials as a polling place because the church displayed two Black Lives Matter banners on its property and would not remove them for election day. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 5:37 am
" The majority of the court nevertheless held that title to church property was a matter of state law, not ecclesiastical law, and that, under Texas law, the church properties belong to the individual churches and are not held in trust for the benefit of The Episcopal Church. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 12:53 pm
I have posted on SSRN an essay -- originally presented as a lecture at Villanova -- called "Do Churches Matter? [read post]
9 Aug 2020, 6:00 am
New York Times op-ed: ‘Racism Makes a Liar of God’: How the American Catholic Church Is Wrestling With the Black Lives Matter Movement, by Elizabeth Bruenig: In 1963, when 250,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and heard the Rev. [read post]
1 Jan 2017, 2:33 pm
While Article 2 now reads: "Our values will remain our Christian and humanistic heritage," Article 16 provides:The Norwegian church, an Evangelical-Lutheran church, shall remain the Norwegian National Church and will as such be supported by the State.However prior provisions making the Evangelical-Lutheran Church the "official religion" of the nation and placing the king in charge of religious matters were eliminated. [read post]
7 Aug 2019, 4:10 am
Thus, the trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to address or regulate them. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 4:00 am
Matters of church governance, predicated upon its principles and hierarchical structure, should not be the subject of secular judicial resolution. [read post]
6 Jul 2022, 4:00 am
The court said in part: We agree with the trial court’s determination that as a matter of ecclesiastical government, the procedure for separation of an affiliated member church from a hierarchical church organization is an issue over which civil courts do not have subject matter jurisdiction.... [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 11:54 am
No other search engine cracks the 1% mark.If you're a pastor or church web administrator why should these numbers matter to you? [read post]
30 Dec 2021, 4:00 am
Therefore, we find that a determination of the Church’s claims at issue would impermissibly embroil the trial court in a religious controversary to include choosing its church leaders....Further, the Church’s second declaration is clearly a matter of church authority or governance as opposed to substantively and effectively a property dispute as it asks the trial court to declare that “[Jose Jr.] has no right or authority to act on the… [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 4:00 am
The court said in part:the substance of Kelly’s claims for negligence, fraud, misrepresentation, age and sex discrimination, and defamatory statements published within the church community relates to internal matters of church governance and each of those claims is “inextricably intertwined” with those internal matters.... [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 1:46 pm
The court said in part:Churches in Maryland formally organize as religious corporations and thus, the trustees, not the congregation, constitute the corporation....Appellant ... argues that Shore Haven trustees lacked authority to terminate him because the firing of a church pastor is an ecclesiastical matter reserved to the church, not the trustees....However, here, there was simply no evidence that the Board’s decision was based on disputes regarding religious… [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 7:07 am
" The court concluded that the free exercise clause requires it to defer to decisions made by the church hierarchy in this type of challenge to matters of internal governance. [read post]
27 Dec 2019, 6:28 am
Moon as leader of the Unification Church. [read post]
23 Jan 2022, 4:00 am
That is, the substance of plaintiff’s complaint relates to internal matters of church governance and discipline. [read post]
