The Roman Catholic Church loves Capitalism and American Laws, too...

Exhibit A: "Catholic Diocese of Oakland mulls bankruptcy amid 330 sexual abuse cases"
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/oakland-diocese-bankruptcy-sexual-abuse-cases-17847038.php

Exhibit B: "Santa Rosa Catholic Diocese files for bankruptcy protection over sex abuse claims"
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-catholic-diocese-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/

Exhibit C: "San Diego Roman Catholic diocese ponders bankruptcy with sex-abuse lawsuits pending"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-11/san-diego-roman-catholic-diocese-bankrRoman Catholic Diocese of San Diego accused of fraudulently transferring assets to foil sex abuse liabilityuptcy-sex-abuse-lawsuits

Exhibit D: "As of March 2023, thirty-two US Catholic religious organizations have sought bankruptcy protection in chapter 11."
https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/bankruptcy/#:~:text=As%20of%20March%202023%2C%20thirty,State%20Law%20professor%20Marie%20T.

Exhibit E:
"As the pandemic began to unfold, scores of Catholic dioceses across the U.S. received aid through the Paycheck Protection Program while sitting on well over $10 billion in cash, short-term investments or other available funds, an Associated Press investigation has found. And despite the broad economic downturn, these assets have grown in many dioceses.

Yet even with that financial safety net, the 112 dioceses that shared their financial statements, along with the churches and schools they oversee, collected at least $1.5 billion in taxpayer-backed aid. A majority of these dioceses reported enough money on hand to cover at least six months of operating expenses, even without any new income."
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/feb/04/sitting-on-billions-catholic-dioceses-amassed-taxp/

Exhibit F:
"Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego accused of fraudulently transferring assets to foil sex abuse liability"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-23/roman-catholic-diocese-sued-assets

Exhibit G:
"Catholic Church Shields $2 Billion in Assets to Limit Abuse Payouts
Dioceses are aggressively moving and reclassifying holdings to shrink the value of their bankruptcy estates."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-01-08/the-catholic-church-s-strategy-to-limit-payouts-to-abuse-victims?leadSource=uverify%20wall

American Bishops have around 11.5 or so billion US dollars in cash or similar assets that could be used to pay for damage they've done. Their priests molest and rape children. There's rarely a criminal investigation however, and/or the priests are moved overseas to prevent a criminal investigation. But there are lawsuits . And then when they lose in court, the individual diocese move money out and declare bankruptcy. It's immoral and unethical. It is wrong. They are masters at exploiting loopholes to gather wealth and power.

All non-profit organizations get to avoid certain taxes. And churches are non-profit organizations; they are able to fulfill the requirements for such.

However, only churches are exempt from filing yearly the financial statements to the IRS detailing money-in, money-out designed to help prevent fraud.

There's no real reason given, they were simply granted the exemption. And so, churches are now the perfect financial black boxes for anything from avoiding paying out on lawsuits to actual money laundering and untraceable political influence.

Revoking that exemption is one thing we could do to rein in churches in America without treading on any of their "religious liberties", as it would mean treating them exactly the same as all other non-profit organizations.