Opposing Briefing

Briefing filed on August 7, 2020 opposing USCCB’s motion to dismiss.

Complaint

Copy of the complaint filed in Federal District Court on January 22, 2020.    

Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Seeking Accountability for Deceptive Solicitation and Misuse of Charitable Donations

For immediate release Contact: Marc R. Stanley (214) 443-4301 Stanley Law Group (Dallas, TX) filed a class action lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island against United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for misleadingly soliciting millions of dollars in charitable donations that were diverted into private investments. … Read more

Catholics Should be Outraged at Peter’s Pence Bait-and-Switch

If you asked loyal Catholics to subsidize a film dramatizing the life of Elton John, you’d get a disappointing return. But ask them to contribute to the needs of the Holy Father, and you’ll see real generosity. If you ask Catholics to invest in the London real-estate market, or in a shady Italian bank, or … Read more

How the Vatican Spent Millions on Elton John’s Biopic

Just when you thought the Vatican‘s image problem couldn’t get any worse, what with endemic clerical child abuse and a near bankrupt American arm of the church, it does. A new report pulls back the red velvet curtain on a bizarre new tidbit about the Vatican‘s other dirty little secret: its finances. The latest twist … Read more

Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit

Every year, Catholics around the world donate tens of millions of dollars to the pope. Bishops exhort the faithful to support the weak and suffering through the pope’s main charitable appeal, called Peter’s Pence. What the church doesn’t advertise is that most of that collection, worth more than more than €50 million annually, goes toward … Read more