Supreme Court declines to take up Catholic fundraising case

The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a case about the way one of the Catholic Church‘s annual collections is presented to its congregation, allowing the case to proceed in a lower court despite concerns about the government infringing on religious autonomy.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had urged the Supreme Court to take up the case, where it was seeking to toss a lawsuit challenging the way the church’s “Peter’s Pence” offering is described to parishioners, claiming ruling against the church’s collection would infringe on its religious autonomy under the First Amendment.