My intended goal went over the head of everyone in this airheaded generation

These steps are on the  grounds of a parish where James Torquato was once stationed.  I personally knew a lecteur at that parish who assisted Torquato in his masses.  In fact, when my parents moved to Pennsylvania, from Nebraska, this was their first parish.  It really is a small world out there, where human lives intersect, over and over, again and again.

As I was stating, my intended goal for this Wuerl-of-Hurt site was missed by everyone.  Before all else ... as a preview ... as a thesis statement ... and as a concluding statement:

In the 1990s, the Turn of the Millennium, and in 2010s, in contrast to the vast majority of the self-seeking, pleasure-seeking, & promotion-seeking Americans, I was a modern day Abolitionist.  

That which needed to be abolished was sweatshop  & slave labor profiteering.  This included the child slavery on the Cacao Fields of West Africa slavery.  And remember, that cacao ended up in America, on American kitchen tables.

I needed a Catholic authority holder to grant me a church-affiliated group to counteract and end this ongoing evil that was and is constantly being committed by corporate America.  The church authority in my jurisdiction of Pittsburgh was Donald William Wuerl.  He completely ignored me.

Concerning this Crime Against Humanity, if you happen to be an American, then you are directly involved.  Proof is in your closets, your clothing drawers, your kitchen shelves, your garages, your gamerooms, your dens, etc.  

Many of the things you purchased in the past couple of decades had tags on them, stating, "Made in China,"  "Made in Vietnam," "Made in Bangladesh," "Made in El Salvador," etc, etc, etc, etc.  

Well, the tags should have stated, MADE BY SLAVES.  Moreover, in the fashion of the typical Johhny Reb, White Trash, Confederate of the 1860s, you 21st Century mall shoppers were completely compliant with that Crime Against Humanity.  

If you have items made in the aforementioned countries, then you are a RECEIVER OF STOLEN GOODS.  The workers who made your merchandise did NOT get paid their worth for the merchandise they made.  Backpay is due to them.  The clothes you wore were made by slaves.  The shoes you wore were made by slaves.  This makes you a super vile, hate-filled human being.  Etc, etc, etc, etc.  

All in all, it was beyond a mortal sin for Donald Wuerl to have completely neglected to perform a bishop's moral obligation to speak out against a widespread ... socialwide ... crime against humanity.  Wuerl's deliberate silence was his consent in this crime.

The great outrage here was that Pittsburgh Post Gazette writer, Ann Rodgers whatever-her-new-name-is kept making Wuerl look like the holiest man who ever lived.  And people were too intimidated to say the opposite.  People were too intimidated to speak the truth about the LIAR, Donald Wuerl who was proven to be an egregious liar in the 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury inquest.

The Original Intent for the Wuerlgate site ... aka Wuerl-of-Hurt site

Concerning that original goal, it was to show how Wuerl was not the saint that propagandists were making him out to be.  He was wasting everyone's time, while he neglected the most urgent moral necessities of the time.  My motive in doing the Wuerl-of-Hurt site goes as follows:

Firstly, as Doctor of the Church, St. Francis de Sales stated, "It's an act of charity to warn the flock of the wolves among it."  And Wuerl definitely was a wolf amongst sheep.  Let's go a step further, here:

As a quick intro, it's in Catholicism's moral theology ... which is an element of any Catholic's Examination of Conscience ... that there is such a thing known as being an accessory to the sin of others.  It's also known as the Sin of Cooperation, as well as the act of being an Accomplice.  

This all means the exact same thing.  Catholicism teaches that there are nine ways in which you can be an accessory to the sin of others.   All in all, you are guilty of the sins you support ... and the sins from which you profit ... as well as the sins you praise, etc.

Now, when a crime against humanity is being shared by an entire society, bishops in that society have the moral obligation to speak out against the crime.  

There is furthermore an obligation for these bishops to establish groups to counter the nationwide injustice.  Such groups used to be called Catholic Action Guilds.  In the post-Vatican II era, when bishops started becoming Airport Bishops, such groups were called Apostolates.  

Yes, bishops started travelling around Hemispheres, as if they were far too important for their own dioceses and archdioceses.  As a result of the Vatican II Mindset, and as a result of US tax dollar allocations, the concept of countering social evils was now gone.  Bishops decided to go the route of making lots and lots and lots of taxpayer dollars via "Government Social Service Contracts."   

Bishops only spoke out against any practice which infringed upon the American bishops' high taxpayer dollar incomes.  And of course, the bishops speaking out against arresting violent illegal aliens was motivated by greed.  They showed that they did NOT care about your safety.  But of course, they proved that they didn't care about your safety when they were constantly covering-up & moving-around molester priests.

All in all, in the 21st Century, opposing the mortal sins allowed by the Sugar Daddy government was no longer to happen, lest the bishops not score on outrageously large sums of taxpayer allocation dollars.  And of course, from that practice came George Bush II coining the phrase, Faith-Based Initiatives.  

So, speaking out against the government which pays these bishops outrageous sums was to be prevented by these well-paid bishops & their well-paid diocesan accounts.  The policy was to say nothing that would make politicians mad at the bishops.

Once again, I was the modern-day version of the Abolitionist ... opposing slave labor sweatshops, while Wuerl was being the modern day version of Jefferson Davis.  

Wuerl disrespected me ... and wrote me off ... the same way in which the Confederate Slave Owners of the 1860s held the 18th Century Abolitionists in contempt.  Wuerl was merely the Pan-Peter-Version of Jefferson Davis, and he didn't care about his fellow man.  

Yet, Ann Rodgers Whatever-her-new-name-is made Wuerl look like the quintessential Nobel Peace Prize candidate.  However, Wuerl felt nobody's pain evidenced by the fact that he caused multiple people pain, one person after another after another.

Concerning certain people's obsession with glorifying the typical Peter Pan anti-man, anti-masculine types of males, such people see the effeminate male as "glamorous."  And such people see "glamorousness" as holiness.  HOWEVER, in the Catholic baptismal rite as centuries past, the baptizer priest used to ask, "Do you reject the glamour of evil?"

All in all, a certain type of person sees the effeminate, Peter-Pan, Donald Wuerl type as a living Ken Doll.  And of course, there is serious vanity, if not a psychological malady involved.  

There are also political operatives who seek to deify the bishops who are willing to let homosexuality infiltrate the Catholic Church and treat it as normal and non-sinful.  And of course, for years Wuerl allowed the very undignified Dignity Masses in the Diocese of Pittsburgh.  In fact, I posed photos of one of the parishes were these sacrilegious masses occurred on a regular basis.  

In light of this, perhaps you can finally realize why Wuerl was constantly being deified on TV and in the press ... until 2018, when a Pennsylvania Grand Jury set forth the findings on Wuerl and other bishops in Pennsylvania.

Blatantly Obvious

As I illustrated in previous paragraphs and in previous posts, in order to prove that everyone in America was involved in Sweatshop Labor Profiteering, all that was needed to be done was to show the contents of the typical American's closet and clothing drawer, as well as kitchen shelves, living room, etc.  

The evidence came in the fact that almost everything newly purchased carried a tag which stated, "Made in China," "Made in Bangladesh," "Made in Vietnam," "Made in El Salvador," etc, etc, etc. 

And let us not forget about Ivory Coast cacao production ... aka chocolate production.  It was something about which Wuerl said nothing.  It was something about which the typical American politician said nothing, making such individuals an accomplice to yet another West African crime against humanity.

Sweatshop labor products imported by American corporations and sold to Americans was causing a massive leakage of currency from America into Sweatshop China and other sweatshop nations, including Vietnam, Bangladesh, and the fields of the Ivory Coast.  As a result, about 5 million American jobs were lost ... to slaves. 

Such a leakage was known as the Trade Balance Deficit, and with China, it was obscenely huge, concerning USA dollars.  

China was now getting richer, and as a result, China ended up amassing the largest military navy on Planet Earth, thanks to the airheaded Sunday mall shoppers who no longer saw any sacredness in the idea of the Sabbath ... and who didn't care or know how little foreign workers got paid in making America's cheap product lines.

Throughout the time, I could NOT, in clear conscience, even apply for a job under any corporation which profited from foreign sweatshop labor ... and foreign field slavery.

Meanwhile, even though Wuerl committed dereliction of duty in his moral obligation to speak out against the Crime Against Humanity in which all of America was involved, Pittsburgh Post Gazette writer, Ann Rodgers whatever-her-name-is-now wrote idolitrous propaganda making Wuerl look like Beowulf on steroids.  

As a result of her intelligence-insulting propaganda, I had to balance-out the universe and reveal Wuerl's hypocrital & unconscionable works.  So, the Wuerl-of-Hurt site came about.  

None the less, I sounded the alarm on Wuerl exactly 20 years before the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury showed the public that Wuerl was no man of conscience and definitely no man of decency.  I reported Wuerl to the Vatican in 1998, and that was a HUGE MISTAKE.

Now, I was formally taught by one of JFK's economic advisory staff members.  And I did score a 100% in a national, standardized, accounting exam authored by ... distributed by ... and graded by Harvard University personnel.  That is to say, at one time, I knew my economic charts and graphs a lot better than any Vatican II bishop's advisor.

In the end, I wrote how Sweatshop Labor Profiteering was causing a massive imbalance in the US Economy.  But, of course, Wuerl completely ignored me and basic economics.

I simply wanted to be granted an apostolate designed to counter crimes against humanity in which all Americans were participating.  But, Wuerl treated me as a persona non grata.  Actually, he was treating all of the sweatshop slave laborers as the collective persona non grata.

However, Wuerl had more than enough time to protect sexually abusive priests, to lie the public, and to collect the yearly church tax under the deceptive guise of "the Parish Share Program" which had nothing to do with parishes sharing with each other.  It had to do with parishes paying their share of the church tax.

All those years of study, of prolonged fasts, and in-depth prayer done by me was done absolutely for nothing.  Rather, I received nothing but the retaliatory wrath of a Father James Torquato who failed to keep his hands to himself when he should have.  I was then buried in a cover-up ... with diversionary propaganda included ... which made it seem that I never existed, in the first place.  Meanwhile, China was amassing an amount of wealth that would make its navy the largest in the world.  

Others suffered at the hands of Torquato simultaneously.  Yet, I was blamed for it all, even though it was Torquato who committed the retaliations ... and even though it was Wuerl who ratified the retaliations, as if he did the retaliations, himself.  

Wuerl coud have stopped the retaliations immediately.  He did not.  Wuerl could have spoken out against Americans participating in Foreign Sweatshop Labor Profiteering on a massive scale.  But, he did not.  

Wuerl could have granted me an apostolate, but he did not do so.  Wuerl saw to it that my prolonged efforts which, at times, were utterly exhausting, would be a matter of "all that work for nothing."

Wuerl::: FIVE cover-ups & THREE criminal indictments in opening year of Pittsburgh Tenure. One fled to Wheeling West Virginia and the other to Cuba.

Stanwix & Blvd of the Allies, Pittsburgh Diocesan property, Part 1. 
Behind it is the Glass Castle & the PPG Plaza.

NOW REMEMBER:  The point to this Wuerl-of-Hurt site was to inform you that the cult-of-personality ... super-hero ... propaganda published about Donald Wuerl was a continuum of falsehoods --- 

--- that Wuerl's image was nothing more than the old Stalin-like abuse of power & privilege.  In as much, Stalin was made out to be the Father of Nations, when he was merely a wholescale criminal, eventually condemned by Nikita Khrushchev.  Then came the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report ...

... twelve years after my first reporting of Wuerl's corruption which was never reported in any mainstream media venue and which was never turned into any type of Vatican investigation, even though the Vatican received the allegations against Wuerl ... with evidentiary support more than once.  In fact, on one occasion part of this site's paperwork was hand-delivered to then-Cardinal Ratzinger.

Even though Ratzinger knew of the corruption of Wuerl, he appointed Wuerl as cardinal.  But of course, Ratzinger's butler, while Ratzinger was Benedict XVI, revealed the Ratzinger papacy as one of the most corrupt papacies ever. 

This site was meant to keep you from being deceived into thinking that you had to follow Wuerl, in his violations of Catholic Moral Theology and in him writing-off pivotal element of 2,000 year old 

unchangeable Church doctrine which literally traces itself back to Peter & Paul.

This site was set forth, to level the playing field ... to equalize ... to free you from the hypnotic trance that media proponents held on you.  

Let's review:

The quickest summary is that the FIVE priests COVERED-UP by Wuerl, in his first year as bishop of Pittsburgh were ======>

FATHERS:

1} John Hoehl whom Donald Wuerl personally reinstated into ministryand kept in ministry, even after the so-called "enlightening" dinner that Wuerl had with the family of two lads molested by the three priests mentioned below.

Wuerl reinstated Hoehl and kept him in chaplaincy ministry until the indictments of Frs. Wolk, Zula, and Pucci.  Then, Wuerl dropped Hoehl like a very hot potato.  If Wuerl were to have kept Hoehl in ministry --- Wuerl would have been inviting a grand jury inquest.  Twenty-eight years later, that Grand Jury was finally convened.

2} Robert Wolk (ordained the same year as was Wuerl, thereby indicating that he was Wuerl's classmate.)  Ann Rodgers falsely claimed that Wolk was removed "just as Wuerl became bishop."  The truth is that 

Anthony Bevilacqua placed Wolk on administrative leave, long before Wuerl replaced Bevilacqua.  Donald Wuerl was positioning  to reinstate Wolk, as he already reinstated Hoehl.

3} Richard "Sade" Zula who did practice Sadism on at least one male youth,   This was the only known priest Wuerl was NOT going to reinstate into any type of ministry.  

Now, Wuerl has been proven to be lacking in a sense of justice, but he drew a line in the proverbial sand when it came to Sadism.  So, Zula was removed from ministry.  

Wuerl hid the knowledge of Zula's crimes from law enforcement, despite the Child Protective Services Act.  He simply let Zula go about his life.  When it came time for DA John C. Pettit of Washington County PA to process Zula's indictment, no one at the Diocese of Pittsburgh knew where Zula was ... so they claimed.

4} Fr. Francis Pucci.  He was not laicized or removed from ministry.  Rather, he was allowed to conduct the Mass and perhaps Divine Office with a religious order of sisters.  

Pucci was indicted, but his indictment was dismissed on the statute of limitations defense.  Therefore,  Pucci remained on the diocesan payroll.  In fact, even the criminal convict, Richard Dorsch, was on the payroll, after his conviction.  

In Catholic Canon Law, even criminal priests, after prison time, must be financially supported by their bishops.  A bishop does NOT have to reassign a criminal priest who completed a jail sentence.  But, he does have to sustain such a priest.  Such a thing can keep the priest out of trouble and on a proverbial chain, by which, if he offends again, he's in even bigger trouble than previously.

5} George Zirwas, accomplice of Wolk, Zula, and Pucci.  He was not indicted with them.  He found his way to Cuba, after a number of sexual aggression accusations were made against him.  

While in Cuba, he informed Wuerl that he knew of criminal priests in Wuerl's dioceses and that he (Zirwas) was willing to keep silent about it for a price.  Wuerl informed Zirwas that he was to either send the names of the priests or a letter categorically stating that he (Zirwas) knew of no criminal conduct among Pittsburgh priests.  

Zirwas sent the Sgt Shultz I-Know-Nothing letter.  After that letter was received by Wuerl, Wuerl gave Zirwas a financial bonus.

Zirwas lead the Sodom & Gomorrah lifestyle in Cuba to the extreme.

He was killed by a male prostitute who injected animal tranquilizer into his neck.  In response, Wuerl officiated at Zirwas' funeral and reinstated Zirwas to the level of full clerical investiture, all while giving Zirwas a saint's eulogy, even though Zirwas died while engaged in mortal sin up and until the point of time when Zirwas received his lethal injection.

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Ann Rodgers"-Melnick" was a Pittsburgh Post Gazette writer originally from California.  Before going to Pittsburgh she worked in the Southwestern sector of  Florida where major leaguers do their baseball Spring Training.  

Even though She was never a Roman Catholic (or a member of any other rite of Catholicism,) she was given a job in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, as the director for Communications, as if no Catholic on Earth is good enough for the job.

Rodgers fully knew about the James Torquato Retaliations and remained silent about his retaliations.  In fact, during the infamous 2002 media rampage on clergy sex abuse, she wrote that, as far back as Wuerl's very first year as bishop of Pittsburgh, he announced a  Zero Tolerance Policy, where no priest accused of sexually abusing a minor could ever go back into ministry.  

That was a complete falsehood, supported by the evidence of him returning to ministry Frs. John Hoehl and Edward Huff, as well as Ernest Paone who Wuerl willingly transferred to California and then Las Vegas.

Concerning her proven lies, the first one she told the public was that the tiny Donald Wuerl was an ascetic 5'11."  The truth is that Wuerl is as short in height as was the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua --- between 5'4 to 5'6."  It's simply that Wuerl knew about elevator shoes.  

Concerning this, I received a polite phone call from the late George Neumayr, while Neumayr was in Washington, stating that Wuerl stands 5'9" to 5'10."  Wuerl even had Neumayr fooled --- thanks to elevator shoes.

Incidentally, George Neumayr died from Malaria, in the Ivory Coast, from Malaria, in 2023 ... during the Biden/Harris years.  That administration did not care about protecting human life.  They only cared about consolidating power, in a sneaky dictatorial way, while posing as "civil right democrats."  Thus, there was no health financing agreement between the USA and the Ivory Coast, during Biden's autopen presidency.  

It was the Trump Administration ... in 2025 ... who developed a very charitable health financing agreement.  If Biden's People and the mainstream media didn't rig the 2020 election, by lying to the American People, George Neumayr would still be alive ... and he would still be aggravating me.  The two of us were NOT on the same page.

Being that I was in Pittsburgh during Wuerl's tenure, and being that he walked up to me, I do know that he is tiny.  He did NOT wear elevator shoes while in Pittsburgh.  Others who met him also told me that he stood 5'4" to 5'5".  One person described Wuerl as "scrawny."   A very polite 5'4" woman said to me that Wuerl and her stood "head to head," meaning at the same height.

I know of Wuerl's height and Anthony Bevilacqua's height from a point-blank range personal experience (while standing next to them, in public forum.).  In fact, I was surprised to find out how tiny Wuerl was as he approached me, once upon a time.  This is because he was made out to be this superior godlike man of masculine stature.  

The Donald Wuerl who approached me was exactly like a certain flaming homosexual theater major who would occasionally buzz around our click and take with him one of the guys in the clique who happened to be the son of a certain lieutenant governor ... at the time.  I remember being shocked to find out that Wuerl was a ... uhm ... a ... flamer;  and a very unfriendly flamer, at that.

The bottom line is that you cannot instantly trust as true anything written by Ann Rodgers.  But, for the most part, Rodgers used sleight of hand semantics, (as opposed to outright lying) in her deceiving of the common American man & woman via the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

We now adjourn to the original article:

Donald Wuerl was installed bishop of Pittsburgh on February 12, 1988.  It only took eight months thereafter for the Diocese of Pittsburgh to become one of the first dioceses in America to be 'scathed' in what was to become a nationwide Watergate of perversity.  Wuerl was caught performing a triple cover-up, and the practice of sadomasochism was one of the acts which transpired within a trio of clergy members whom Wuerl unsuccessfully concealed from law enforcement authorities.  Incidentally, Pgh is the abbreviation of Pittsburgh

Always keep in mind that the only reason why Wuerl was one of the first bishops to announce a zero tolerance policy was because he was one of the very first of American bishops caught red-handed in performing multiple and simultaneous cover-ups which included John Hoehl as Wuerl's fourth simultaneous cover-up.

Wuerl expressly put Hoehl back into ministry and immediately took Hoehl out of the ministry line-up after DA John C. Pettit publicly announced that Wuerl and his personnel were uncooperative during the criminal investigation which resulted in the indictments of Wolk, Zula, and Pucci.

In as much, Wuerl had to put on airs and display a very fake facade, in announcing a zero tolerance policy which he did NOT observe in his subsequent cover-up of Frs. Edward Huff and James Torquato.  Wuerl is a liar by his actions.  Such as a person known as a hypocrite.  Wuerl also chooses which Catholic doctrine to observe and which one to violate.  Such a person is known as a heretic.

Concerning Wolk, Zula, and Pucci:

A member of the criminal trio was an assistant chancellor of Wuerl's diocese, as well as a canon lawyer.  This factor alone showed motive for proceeding with an intentional cover-up.  In fact, Wuerl vehemently defended his cover-up of Wolk, in news print, claimed that the cover-up wasn't a cover-up.  Wuerl has been a liar from the beginning.

The Sex Abuse Casualties

The casualties were two altar boys of the same family.  They were brothers. The years of molestation occurred from 1981 to 1987.  In addition to the three indicted priests, there was a fourth alleged assailant reported to one of the three prosecuting district attorneys.  He was a layman.  Furthermore, there was a fourth diocesan priest implicated, but only in his capacity as a probable accomplice; as a silent person who reported nothing to anyone.

Concerning this priest, he either allowed criminal conduct to transpire in a ski lodge suite where he was staying or else he was clueless to what was transpiring there.  Nothing was established other than he was at the scene of the crime, going into his room, while a criminal priest was taking his altar boy into another one.  

This fourth Pittsburgh diocesan priest, incidentally, was strangled to  death in Havana Cuba in 2001, after having been on administrative leave since 1996.  A source informed me that Wuerl, himself, officiated as his funeral ... so stated the source.

While in Cuba, this priest was openly homosexual and was said to have "helped his visiting friends find sexual partners while they stayed in Havana."  He was the tragic Fr. George Zirwas, and at this point in the narration you should be at the first stage in realizing that Lord Byron was more correct than he was mistaken when he stated that the truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Wuerl's unholy trinity

The indicted priests were Robert Wolk, Francis Pucci, and Richard "Sade" Zula.   Wolk was the assistant chancellor and Zula was nicknamed after the Marquis de Sade.  All three priests were charged and arraigned in Washington County, PA.  It's a county which touches the southwestern border of the Allegheny County where within sits Pittsburgh.  

Furthermore, Richard Zula was also arraigned east of Pittsburgh, in Somerset County.  Robert Wolk was indicted in Allegheny County, as well as in Washington County.   In fact, he was the first one to surrender himself to the police.  Incidentally, the Diocese of Pittsburgh comprises the six most Southwestern counties of Pennsylvania.  Pennsylvania, at last count, has sixty-seven counties.

The front page of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's November 11 edition of that year gives light on how involved the criminal investigation was:  

        "Moreover, authorities said their investigation had uncovered evidence of similar offenses involving one of the priests that occurred elsewhere in southwestern Pennsylvania and Florida, Ohio, Virginia, and Canada.  Authorities in the jurisdictions have been contacted."

This shows that the matter was not taken lightly by law enforcement officials.   In fact, the district attorney of Washington County prophetically stated,  "We  would be sticking our heads in the sand to believe these are the only three cases."

Zula had 138 criminal counts filed against him in Washington County, alone.  However, a plea bargain reduced the counts to only two.   In sequence, Zula also plead guilty in Somerset County.  Now, as far as went Wolk, he plead guilty in Allegheny and Washington counties. 

Pucci's case, on the other hand, was dismissed due to the two year statute of limitations expiring on two types of criminal charges.   It expired approximately four months prior to his indictment.   He was indicted under the assumption that the time-keeping for the two year limit had frozen during the time Pucci was outside of Pennsylvania, in a Maryland psychiatric facility.  

None the less, conspiracy charges remained open for Pucci, and that particular crime had a five year limitation.   Despite this, Pucci's case was eventually dismissed.

Take note that, during the nationwide sex abuse scandal, priest after abusive priest was sent to a psychiatric facility, as if each one were an unaccountable victim of mental illness.  Now, there is a difference between mental illness and sin.

If a person is insane, then he is without malice in a materially harmful act, even though each member of society has the right to be made safe from such a harmful person.   However, deception and manipulation, as much as scheming and concealing, were committed by priest after abusive priest, and such acts are elements of malice; not mental illness. 

In addition, these priests were described as having "compulsions" that required psychiatric treatment.  In the Catholic vernacular, such compulsions are known as temptations.

Wuerl and His Personnel:  Uncooperative During the 1988 Investigation

The Washington County district attorney announced that Wuerl's diocese engaged in "foot dragging" throughout the criminal investigation.   The DA was either irked or incensed by the Pittsburgh diocese's lack of cooperation, calling it "minimal at best."   His quote on the topic goes as follows: "It was not the spirit of cooperation we would like to see."  Of course,  "foot dragging" is a polite way of saying "stonewalling" which, in turn, is a polite way of saying "a step away from obstruction of justice charges."

Wuerl had pushed his luck to the limit.  Being that he was caught performing a triple cover-up, and being that he was accused of having impeded a criminal investigation via stonewalling, he had no other choice than to strike the pose of a strict disciplinarian.  This shows that Wuerl was not not not the caring and concerned bishop that he was made out to be by the 21st Century media.  Rather, he was a chameleon, looking out for himself.  He changed colors according to the changes in the political climate.  In fact, he originally presented himself as a "liberal."  He was then paraded around as a "conservative."  Wuerl has shown himself to be out for himself.  The following mainstream media newspaper links provide the evidence:

Photocopy of Cleveland Plain Dealer Article which mentions the existence of a fourth predator in the same Pittsburgh diocesan molestation ring:

Wuerl's Cover-up with Mention of Fourth Assailant

The New York Times Report on the Triple Cover-up:
 http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/13/us/3-pennsylvania-priests-accused-of-molesting.html

Photocopy of the San Antonio Express-News Report:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4118/1032/1600/Wuerl%20San%20Antonio%20Express.jpg

Photocopy of the Report found in the Lewiston Daily Sun:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9eYpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7WQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4475,2371591&dq=zula+barn+parked +car+pettit+resort&hl=en

Photocopy of the Nashua Telegraph's Report on the Cover-up:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=
5495,3148582&hl=en

The Associated Press News Report on Wuerl's Triple Cover-up: 
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/1988_11_11_AP_ThreePriests_Francis_Pucci_etc_2.htm

Photocopy of the Bryan Times Report, with D.A.'s Additional Statement:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tQYLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=
jlEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5427,4088961&dq=wolk+arrested+
pittsburgh+zula+pucci

Donald Wuerl: A Coast to Coast Disgrace

News of Wuerl's triple cover-up made its way from coast to coast, via:
- the New York Times,          - the Saint Petersburg Times,
- the Philadelphia Inquirer,     - the Philadelphia Daily News,
- the Cleveland Plain Dealer,   - the Pittsburgh Post Gazette,
- Maine's Lewiston Daily Sun,    - the San Jose Mercury News,     
- Pennsylvania's Reading Eagle,   -  the San Antonio Express-News,
- California's Lodi News-Sentinel,   - the now defunct Pittsburgh Press,   
- Northwestern Ohio's Bryan Times,    - Oregon's Eugene Register-Guard,
- New Hampshire's Nashua Telegraph,  - South Carolina's Rock Hill Herald.
From as far west as California's San Andreas Fault line, to as far east as the
New York metro area, Donald William Wuerl became an early chapter in the
Vatican II church's sex abuse history.  From as far south as the Florida Gulf
Coast, to as far north as Maine, Wuerl's diocese had already proven itself to
be what best selling author Malachi Martin would later say it was:  "... one
of the most pathetic dioceses in the United States."

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/1988_10_11_Mullan_EditorsNote_Robert_Wolk_1.htm

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mYMcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=
b2MEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2329,10275422&hl=en

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/1989_05_23_UnitedPressInternational_Richard_Zula_3.htm

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4ARlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2XcNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4517,3545671&dq=zula+diocese+wuerl&hl=en

Concerning George Zirwas:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FFAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d3ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5379,202749&dq=george+zirwas+pittsburgh+cuba&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FNBIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XYIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1312,127061&hl=en

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Four samples of intelligence-insulting lies told about Anthony Cipolla

There is/was a lot of exculpatory evidence in the Cipolla Case which includes proof that the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson ... along with her eldest son ... outright lied  ... and repeatedly lied.  Other sites omit such exculpatory  evidence, except for an article by a certain Chicago journalist and maybe two or three other people.  

There remains only two points of evidence which make Cipolla look suspicious, in the 1978 case.  I've covered them.  What is absolutely certain is that tales of a 1978 retaliation against this Diane Thompson was an outrageous falsehood, from A to Z.  

None the less, this case's pertinence shows how deceitful Donald Wuerl was.  He showcased the hyper-exaggerations of the Cipolla Case, to divert attention  from Wuerl's actual cover-ups.  Wuerl was the retaliator, and Wuerl's legacy is a legacy of lies ... along with ruthlessness.  

Below is a timeline consensus, from AI

The 1978 Cipolla Case lasted 34 days, and there was NO ARREST.  There was only a scheduled PROBABLE CAUSE HEARING, and such hearings were designed to discern if there were cause to file charges in the first place.  The August 1978 hearing was cancelled an hour or so before it started.  Plus, there were NOT two detectives assigned to the case.  There was only one.

The 34 day time span is pivotal to note, because, in 1978, it took approximately 52 days for the results of a seminal fluid test to be issued by any lab.  There was NO POSITIVE seminal fluid evidence involved in 1978 Cipolla case.  Diane Thompson told author, Randy Engel, that there was.  No, there wasn't.

  

 

At this point, I'm a gonna add a fourth sample of the many falsehoods in the Cipolla Case.  This post originally listed three of them.  Number 4 is about Diane Thompson's seminal fluid test claim which was proven to have been a complete lie.  It begins here:

Diane Thompson ... through author Randy Engel ... claimed that the police found semen on Tucker's clothes and then promptly took it to a lab, where it was promptly declared Anthony Cipolla's.  Promptly would mean 2 or 3 days.  The truth about seminal fluid testing, per se, in 1978, goes as follows:

In as much, Diane Thompson lied ... yet again.  Randy Engel was stupid enough to believe her ... yet again.  There was no seminal fluid report.

And remember, Cipolla was NEVER indicted for any type of molestation in any court, ever.  This means that he was NEVER arrested.

Rather, he was summoned to a Probable Cause Hearing in 1978, and at the hearing the magistrate informed Cipolla that the accusing mother dropped the entire case.  This meant that no charges came to be filed, in the first place.  I already explained the how the procedural rules operate, in this type of case.

All in all, Cipolla was NEVER put on trial for any type of molestation accusation in a secular court or in a Vatican court.  The Vatican court case was misrepresented by the proven liar Tim Bendig, when he was interviewed by a certain journalist.   

The Vatican case was based on Wuerl dismissing Cipolla from ministry, because Wuerl received From St Luke's Institute, in Maryland, a diagnosis of Depression & Suicidal Tendencies for Cipolla.  

Well, another professional institute diagnosed Cipolla as being mentally healthy, during the same time span.  And of course, Cipolla had to pay the bill out of his pocket.  None the less, Wuerl called the favorable diagnosis "scantily" and rejected it.  Wuerl let humanity be deceived that the Vatican Case involved Bendig's accusations against Cipolla.  It had nothing to do with that.

The other media reports, even those from the Diocese of Pittsburgh, were filled with SLEIGHT-OF-HAND semantic twists that presented the Cipolla case in a False Light.  I've already covered that, too.  But, I did so before the friendly availability of the vast AI library came into existence.  We now adjourn to the original start of this 2026 post:

For the record, I was NEITHER a follower NOR a fan NOR an admirer of the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla.  But, I did meet admirers of him.  Plus, I was paid ZERO dollars and ZERO cents, for all of the research that I did ... which I did, at my own expense.  Thus, I had and I have no conflict of interest in this case.

It's simply that this case, beginning with a box of documents, fell into my hands.  Being that the documentary evidence contradicted all that was claimed by the Wuerl People and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, I automatically had the task of doing extracurricular homework on the case ... at my own uncompensated expense.  

This included me consulting with a Chicago journalist, two or three years before I would be temporarily transferred to the Chicago Vicinity.  The result of my fact-finding mission created for me the moral obligation to convey the truth on the matter. 

As a preview:  According to a female writer named Randy Engel,  in the Heat of July (1978), the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla was wearing a CASSOCK, while intruding on a single mom who accused Cipolla of molesting a child or two of hers.  

Of course, her accusation only came after Cipolla ... an assistant pastor at the time .. denied her request to have his parish pay her monthly rent.  This is before Cipolla started his Padre Pio prayer group.  None the less, cassocks are for cold-weather months, and are NOT typically worn in July, in case you didn't know.

BTW, I asked a few former followers of Anthony Cipolla if anyone of them ever saw Cipolla dressed in a cassock.  The answer was always. "No."  So stated for the record.

Meanwhile, Randy Engel also asserted that Cipolla appeared, while Young Tucker was diligently doing his homework at a kitchen table.  This was during the HEART OF SUMMER VACATION, when school had been out for over 7 weeks ... and while there were still five or so weeks of Summer Vacation remaining, before the ringing of the first school bell of 1978.

Plus, according to the same Randy Engel, the father of one of the two sons of Cipolla's accuser underwent a severe special forces training accident, during 1965, at a military base in Spartanburg, South Carolina.  This was said to be the cause that left the accuser of Cipolla to fend for herself as a single mother, in the era of food stamps, welfare checks, and federally funded HUD housing.

Responses to Engel's Assertions go as follows:

That South Carolina military base CLOSED IN 1946, one year after the end of WWII.  There was no Vietnam-era training there.  The place was a tourist sight in 1965.  No guns are allowed to be fired anywhere near a tourist sight in the USA.

Even the 1950's special forces training center in Camp Mackall, in North Carolina, was NOT in operation in the 1960s.  Thus, you can be assured that Randy Engel's Special Forces Accident Segment was a definitive lie.

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Now, concerning the claim that Young Tucker was doing homework on July 30th, 1978, a person set on defending Randy Engel's 2016  defamatory writing would respond, by claiming that Young Tucker was probably doing Summer School homework.  Well, that conjecture is very easy to disprove.  Observe:

Firstly, Engel wrote that an unwelcomed visit by Cipolla upon Young Tucker's residence occurred exactly on July 30th, 1978.  

Well, according to the Pittsburgh Teachers' Union Contract of the late 1970s, there was to be no summer school occurring in the final week of July.  This was done, so that union teachers could get valid vacation time before the start of the "teachers' in-service days" which immediately occurred a few days before the start of the school year.  

Moreover, the start of the school year was scheduled to immediately follow Labor Day.  Thus, the Teachers' In-Service Days were scheduled for Late August.  This is why the union contract made sure that there would be NO SUMMER SCHOOL in the last week of July.  In as much, it is 100% certain that the Young Tucker was NOT doing any summer school homework on July 30th, 1978, as Randy Engel claimed. 

 

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Note on Cassocks

A priest is NOT required to wear a cassock, as his everyday attire.  Thus, in the heat of July a priest may completely dispense with the cassock, even for mass.  

Now, in the 1970s, air conditioning was not as common as it is today.  A priest can entirely forgo a cassock in summertime heat.  So, don't expect that Cipolla was wearing a cassock in the heat of July.  

In as much, Cipolla's accuser apparently told the cassock story to Randy Engel, in synch with whatever that woman's children told Engel, to insert theatrics and dramatics into the tale.  That's usually the sign of a liar.  And yes, families have been known to concoct falsehoods.

Moreover, the accusing mother could have easily gotten a Restraining Order against Cipolla.  She could have simply called the police.  But of course, the entire story can be written-off as a deliberate lie, because of the claim that Tucker was doing homework during a time when there was no school.

One more thing:  Future money was involved, as in a settlement for a child or two of the accuser of Cipolla.  Lies have been known to make a lot of money, especially after the publication of a grand jury inquest, such as the one in 2018 which surveyed six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania.   This concludes the preview.

NOTE:  The 2018 PA Grand Jury testimony concerning the Cippola Case was NOT dramatically theatric.  Meanwhile, the 2016 Randy Engel version of the same Cipolla Case is Paranoid Psychosis.

As an example of a hyped-up tale,  Cipolla's accuser originally told the public that Cipolla's followers smashed all the windows of her apartment, along with slitting all the tires on her car.  Then, as years progressed, the story was changed to one rock being thrown through one window.

Of course, the tales of a retaliation which didn't occur in the first place defamed Cipolla's followers.  Cipolla did NOT run a Padre Pio Prayer Group in 1978.  In the 1970s, he was a chaplain of youth organizations, and none of those members ever publicly accused Cipolla of any wrongdoing.

The outrage here is that Cipolla's "Padre Pio Followers" were people who frequently went to Confession, and did something called "the examination of conscience."  Such persons are usually shy.  In fact, the worst thing they would do to you is . . . shun you.  That's it.  

Such people, from my personal experience, usually had scrupulous consciences.  In as much, each one knew that tossing even one rock through one window is a sin.  These were a people who wouldn't slit anyone's tires.  

As far as went Cipolla's followers, they were the good, old fashioned Catholics much like those of the 1940s and the 1950s ... and especially the 1962 type of Catholic, when it came to the Rite of Mass.

None the less, the sole detective of the very short-lived 1978 investigation mentioned in his 2018 grand jury testimony why he was lead to believe the damning accusations of a 12 year old boy, in 1978.  

The former detective said that he only believed what the 12 year old boy said to him, in 1978, because he was a 12 year old boy.  The detective of 1978 didn't think that 12 year old children were capable of lying.  

Of course, in subsequent years, court cases showed that 9, 10, 11, and 12 year old students most certainly do lie.  This means that you have to test any junior high school student's testimony for cracks & contradictions, just like anyone else's testimony.

None the less, concerning the Probable Cause Hearing which came after the issuing of a Summary Notice, the sole detective's 2018 grand jury testimony of the 1978 case was reportedly this:

[I] didn’t recall seeing Father Cipolla, but I do recall there was – – approximately – – there was five men and it has been a while back. 

I don’t know if they were all attorneys or who they belonged to. But one of them approached me and told me that the mother doesn’t want to press charges and they - - to the effect - - they didn’t want to get the priest in any trouble or hurt the priest.  Something to that effect. 

And I said, ‘Well, what about the boy?’ And I didn’t get an answer. So I kind of asked again. I said, ‘What do we want to do with the boy? He is the one who is the victim here.’  

(Note:  When a judge would find probable cause for indictment, he/she would do what was known as "issuing process."  Then, and only then, does the person end up in handcuffs.

The detective here automatically played jury, declaring Cipolla guilty, because he believed that 12 year old brothers didn't lie.  The detective should have simply  said, "But, we have probable cause here."  

The probable cause was the stethoscope, IF there were no evidence of Cipolla occasionally sending medical supplies to the foreign mission with whom he was once associated.  And of course, his association with that mission was as a seminarian seeking to join the foreign-missions religious order.)

Anyway, the 2018 testimony of the sole detective of the 1978 case also included him saying:

And I was kind of ignored, to be honest about it. And the case was dropped, thrown out, whatever you want to call it, and it was nothing that the police – – that we could do because the Magistrate went along with it and dumped the case. So here we are today.

Now, if Cipolla did molest Tucker, it was NOT the way Randy Engel said it was repeatedly done.  Such an action would have caused any nine year a lot of physical pain.  This is due to the Science of Anatomy.  And quite frankly, I do NOT want to get graphic here.

My contention was in the very false claim that there was a massive & conspiratorial retaliation against Diane Thompson in 1978.  There was no retaliation, and the 12 year old of 1978 turned out to be an easily proven LIAR in 2016.

Once again, the 1978 detective did NOT test the youth's allegations for contradictions.  He immediately believed anything the youth said.

Wasn't Diane Thompson on Welfare?  If so, then why did she ask Cipolla to get his pastor to pay her monthly rent?

Was Diane Thompson eligible for a monthly welfare check, a HUD housing voucher, and Medicaid, in 1978?  If so, then such a person does NOT instantly move out of an apartment.  There's paperwork to be done, for  any welfare recipient making a move, concerning a HUD voucher, where the government pays one's rent.  

Thompson claimed that she had to flee from Pittsburgh in mid-September, 1978.    Perhaps it was because she was overdue on her rent.  Yet, in the era of welfare, food stamps, & HUD, why was she in need of asking Cipolla for rent money?

If she were in the danger she claimed she was, in 1978, police would have had due cause to arrest multiple persons, and she would NOT have to flee.  After all, Bobby Iannelli and Mike Genovese were arrested in Pittsburgh.  The LaRocca Crime family started its decline in the 1980s.  Scarfo was out of business in Philly, in the 1980s.  Church People, in comparison, are chump change.

By any chance, did she move because she failed to pay her rent for multiple months?  Such a thing would NOT be a sudden move.  And why wasn't she on a HUD voucher, being that she was an unemployed single mom?  Hello?

Was revealed to me

Now, something was revealed to me about Diane Thompson's mindset, during the days when she originally learned that I repeatedly caught her lying ... in the 2010s.  She was in utter traumatic distress, because she was in a position to lost a massive settlement, if the authorities of the Pittsburgh Diocese weren't either corrupt or utterly stupid.  

She WAS terrified of me and wanted me out of the picture.  She even doxed me, enabling some fanatic to find me and take me out of the picture.

The revelation of Diane Thompson came from the mouth of someone in her camp, into my ears.  The Diane Thompson People were ... and probably still are ... really, really, REALLY stupid.

This concludes the preliminary note.

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Now, the importance of the female writer, named Randy Engel, is that she used to be the one who edited Anthony Cipolla's Padre Pio Group periodical, called "Thorns & Roses."  She knew all about the accusations against Cipolla, but dispelled them ... for years.  

As you read her 2016 text, you instantly see that Engel didn't know the first thing about the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.  This is because Engel's narration of this arraignment of Cipolla and that arraignment of Cipolla was NOT the way defendants are processed in Pennsylvania.  That, alone, proves the 2016 Engel texts to be fiction. 

In addition, Wuerl only hyper-publicized and misrepresented the Cipolla Case as a diversionary tactic which concealed from the public all of Wuerl's cover-ups of priests who actually did get convicted in criminal courts of law ... or who should have been.

Wuerl obstructed justice, and he used the hyped-up version of the Cipolla case in the obstruction thereof.   But, in 2018, all came tumbling down for Donald Wuerl.  He was found to be the opposite of the super-hero he was made-out to be, by Ann Rodgers-Melnick and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

Back to 2016

Two years or so before Donald Wuerl was revealed to the world as a predictably corrupt modern cleric & an unconscionable liar, an aging Mrs Randy Engel wrote a three-part article which utterly damned the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla.  Wuerl was exposed as a malicious power-abuser in 2018.  

Concerning Randy Engel's age, she began journalism shortly after her college undergrad graduation which occurred in 1961.  Thus, one can assume that Randy was born somewhere in the vicinity of 1940 or so.  Therefore, she was in her 70s in 2016.  Incidentally, Randy was a grad of the State University of New York at Cortland; SUNY Cortland.  

I personally knew Randy.  In fact, she, Mike Ference, and I were simultaneously interviewed on some type of internet radio talk show thing, in the early 2010s.  

One of the two interviewers turned out to be my long lost cousin ... literally.  He was a second-cousin raised somewhere near the Penn State campus.  His mom ... a woman I did meet ... had a restaurant near the Nittany Lion stadium.  Yes, it was a super coincidence.

Cipolla died the same year as the Engel Text ... from a heart attack

Shortly after Engel published her easily refutable series of False Light Defamation, an emotionally traumatized Anthony Cipolla died of a heart attack.  Now, he was a heart patient who had previous heart surgery.  Therefore, Engel should have known better.  

In fact, she seemed to have seen herself as Cipolla's executioner, in letting him endure untold emotional distress which lead to his 2016 death.  That's sick and twisted of her. 

Simply because a person speaks or writes with confidence and an assured tone (or rhythm), it doesn't mean that the person is telling the truth. Observe:

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In Part 1, Randy Engel mentioned the existence of a Tommy Thompson, describing him as the second husband of the Diane Thompson.

Engel expressly stated that this Tommy Thompson was severely injured and almost killed in a vehicle accident and explosion, while participating in Special Forces military maneuvers at "the military camp of Spartanburg South Carolina, in 1965."  She stated that he was training for a tour of duty in Vietnam.

Engel made this guy sound like the wholesome, All-American hero who would come forth to defend all Americans everywhere from Communist aggression.  She also made this man sound like an ever-so harrowed and unfortunate martyr who met a cruel destiny while faithfully training with a Special Forces.

Q:  Now, what is wrong with this picture which instantly proves this declarative statement of such patriotic praiseworthiness to be a complete falsehood???? 

ANS: Ladies & gentlemen, the only military camp in the history of Spartanburg South Carolina was Camp Croft and it was CLOSED in 1946.  It terminated all military operations one year after  the end of WWII.

Furthermore, Camp Croft was turned into a Historic Site where the public can visit.  Now, no American military live-fire maneuvers are ever permitted to be undertaken near civilian venues, including historic sites visited by the public.

Therefore, that allegation in Randy Engel's article is an instantly recognizable falsehood, as are several other ones, thereby making this article a Kangaroo Court disgrace.

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Here is another example of the falsehoods which plague the November 2016 Engel Article, in Parts 1 & 2.   In as much, Engel wrote:

Five days later, an unaccompanied Cipolla came to the Thompson home dressed in a black cassock and white collar and stood on the stoop of the open kitchen door.   Tucker was at the kitchen table doing his homework when he spotted the priest and shouted  "Mom"  and ran away.   Diana looked up and there was Fr. Cipolla.

Okay, Ladies & Gentlemen, what is completely wrong with this allegation which instantly proves it to be a blatant falsehood??????

Firstly, FIVE DAYS LATER was exactly July 30, 1978, during the heat of summertime, when there is no school.  So, why was Tucker doing homework?

ANS:  He wasn't.  Engel wrote yet another easily provable lie.  BTW, priests wore summer clothing in the 1970s.  Priests did NOT wear anything close to the cassock mentioned by Engel.

Let us review, for the sake of the criminally stubborn:

Do you see what is blatantly false about Engel's declarative statement that Cipolla appeared at the kitchen door, while Tucker was doing his homework, six weeks into Summer Vacation, where there is no school and therefore no homework ???

There is NO PUBLIC SCHOOL in late July.  However, if Diane Thompson was referring to special Holy Communion class, then know that there was NO SUMMER SCHOOL for Catholic CCD instructions, as well.  And First Holy Communion is traditionally in the Springtime.

PLUS,  PLUS,  PLUS, July 25, 1978 was the day when Thompson filed paperwork against Cipolla, accusing him of molestation.  THEREFORE, you can be assured that Tucker was NOT studying as a special student for Anthony Cipolla.  He was NOT going to go back to Cipolla for any kind of instruction.  Thus, Tucker had ZERO REASON for doing any homework on July 30, 1978, be it in the public school sector or the religion school sector.

Why was Randy Engel so incredibly blind to NOT have instantly realized those two blatant falsehoods?  And why didn't she fact check the Spartanburg Camp story, in order for her to realize that no one did any maneuvers there since 1946?