The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in a same-sex marriage.

A federal appeals court ruled the Archdiocese of Indianapolis acted within the law when it fired a long-time counselor because she is in a same-sex marriage.

In May, a special judge with the Marion County Superior Court dismissed the case without explanation. Joshua Payne-Elliott appealed the dismissal later that month, and on Tuesday, the Indiana Court of Appeals issued a ruling that said the lower court should not have thrown out the case.

A judge ruled in favor of Roncalli High School and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis in a discrimination lawsuit last week, but the plaintiff's lawyer is filing an appeal of the decision.

A teacher who sued the Archdiocese of Indianapolis after he was fired from a Catholic high school because of his same-sex marriage is appealing the dismissal of the case.

A lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis that accused it of forcing a school to fire a teacher because of his same-sex marriage was dismissed last week.

Underwriters for Lloyd's of London contends in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that when the archdiocese applied for excess sexual misconduct liability insurance last year, it failed to disclose abuse allegations

Cars circled two full blocks of downtown Indianapolis Saturday as part of protest to support transgender students.

A Catholic priest in Terre Haute has stopped hearing drive-through confessions at the request of the Indianapolis Archdiocese amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The suspension is effective starting Wednesday, March 18 and includes all Sunday and weekday public masses.