Commonwealth Court last week upheld the department’s 1997 order shutting down St. Elizabeth’s Child Care Center near Allentown. The judges said the Catholic day care’s case was too short on specifics and that it did not, as required, establish that regulations would interfere with its free exercise of religion.
“St. Elizabeth’s asserts that it would be difficult and intrusive to have government bureaucrats evaluate its religious ministries under standards that are not part of church teaching or are at variance with it,” wrote Judge Rochelle S. Friedman in an opinion issued Jan. 7.
