U.S. High Court Hears Telephonic Arguments In Ministerial Exception Cases

Mealey's (May 11, 2020, 2:24 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Catholic school teachers are “proselytizing” and spend more time each week than priests teaching faith to schoolchildren and thus fall within the ministerial exception to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, an attorney representing two Catholic schools told the U.S. Supreme Court on May 11 in oral arguments held by phone in two consolidated cases regarding the application of the exception to bias cases by two teachers against two Catholic schools (Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Agnes Morrissey-Berru, No. 19-267, St. James School v. Darryl Biel, No. 19-348, U.S. Sup.)....

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