House of Good Shepherd v. Department of Revenue

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the com- munal living space and semi-cloistered life of a convent of nuns is exempt because “[t]he daily discipline of a religious life is a form of practicing the faith”
• holding convent exempt where communal, prayerful living was itself a religious objective
• nuns required to live in a semi-cloistered residence by the dictates of their religion
• communal, prayerful life required nuns to live together in convent
• discussing how the advancement of religion is a charitable purpose
• discussing how the advancement of religion is a charitable purpose.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).