Court blocks $5 million West Virginia grant to Catholic trade college amid lawsuit

null / Credit: Brian A Jackson / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 10, 2025 / 16:05 pm (CNA). A circuit court blocked a West Virginia agency from awarding a $5 million grant to St. Joseph the Worker, an Ohio-based Catholic trade college that planned to expand into the state. In a bench ruling, Judge Richard Lindsay found that the planned grant would violate Article III of the West Virginia Constitution, which forbids the government from using tax funds “for the…