Supreme Court agrees to take up zoning dispute over Kentucky church shrine 

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National Headlines- October 1 2026

National Headlines- October 1 2026

A dispute over whether a local zoning ordinance in Kentucky that prohibited a Catholic church from building a religious shrine next to its property is legal is headed to the Supreme Court.  

The justices agreed Thursday to take up the request from Missionaries of St. John the Baptist, a church in the Cincinnati suburbs that was denied a permit to construct a large grotto honoring the Virgin Mary in an adjacent lot.  

At issue is whether that denial violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), which is designed in part to protect against zoning laws that impose a “substantial........

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