Church, Bistro and Theatre

The Catholic Church is allowed to have discriminatory hiring practices (women are not allowed to be priests). Why is that? Why are they unlike every other corporation operating in the United States who is not allowed to deny a job to a woman simply because she is a woman?

Imagine if Wal-mart said “sorry ladies, but our corporate charter clearly states women should not have authority over men, so you can’t be a manager”

Why does the Catholic Church get special treatment? I guess money can buy you anything.

My daughter has little hope gaining admission to a local Church of England school because they class “Methodists” as being from a different faith and therefore highly unlikely to gain entry to a Christian school? Is this legal?