The Supreme Court has handed down a unanimous ruling in a religious rights case, finding a Catholic charity in Wisconsin can’t be required to pay unemployment taxes when other religious groups are exempt.

The Supreme Court hasn't always been kind to religious groups this term, but a unanimous ruling handed down Thursday is a different story. In an unqualified triumph, the Catholic Charities Bureau won the court's support to opt out of Wisconsin's unemployment compensation system -- a privilege the state had denied because it deemed the group's work wasn't religious enough,