The Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to the argument by a Catholic Charities chapter that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it refused to give the group the same exemption from the state’s unemployment tax that it provides to churches,

The Supreme Court appeared Monday to be leaning toward a Catholic charitable organization pushing back against the state of Wisconsin in the latest religious rights case to come before the court. In a case that could have wide-ranging effects,

Catholic Charities has spent more than a century caring for Wisconsin’s poor — but a state court says that work isn’t “religious” unless it involves preaching or proselytizing. The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a First Amendment case brought by Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior,