( May 26, 2026, 2:29 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 26 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari posing a church autonomy question in a putative class case accusing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) of fraud related to Peter’s Pence Collection; the order list noted that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who oversaw the case in the trial court, took no part in the consideration or decision of the petition....