Wuerl reached the height of hypocrisy with Fr Leo Burchianti

If you travel that river for an additional 15 miles,
you will reach West Aliquippa where once was stationed Fr. Leo Burchianti.

The Fr Leo Burchianti who died in 2013 was accused of sexual misconduct, from 1967 to 1993, by eight youths.  He was even accused of text-book defined rape.  Moreover, two financial settlements were made for two of Burchinti's accusers.  One was for $15,000, in 1994, and the other settlement was for $25,000, in 2008.

In conclusion, Burchianti was alleged to have molested and/or graphically harassed eight young boys, in one degree or another.  He was also accused of giving these youths alcohol, and even allowed some of them to take some kind of recreational drug in the rectory.  Then, in 1994, Burchianti was finally granted some kind of leave of absence.  

Now, Cipolla was cut-off completely by Wuerl, dating back to the early 1990s or so.  In contrast, Burchianti was allowed to live at the Pittsburgh residence for mentally and emotionally unstable priests until he died.  

That place is known as Saint John Vianney Manor, and Burchianti was there for eleven years, from 1996 to 2007, under Wuerl's permission ... and also from 2008 until his death, in 2013, under Dave Zubik's permission.  

And yes, I personally knew and spoke with Dave Zubik ... while he was a private academy chaplain, called "Father Dave" ... and Leo Burchianti, even to the point of having an appointment with him at his West Aliquippa rectory once.

So, Cipolla was completely cut-off by Wuerl ... and later Zubik ... even though his case was found to have accusers who were found to be unconscionable liars, after detailed fact-checking occurred.  And those allegations were detailed in other Blue Marble Album posts.

In fact, Cipolla was officially investigated in 1989, by the DA offices of two Pennsylvania counties, resulting in the conclusion that there were no corrobborating witnesses and no other type of evidence to warrant Cipolla's arrest and indictment.  

And of course, contrary to misinformative journalists, Cipolla was NOT arrested in 1978.  He only reached the stage of a "probable cause hearing," to see if there were "due cause" to indict and arraign Cipolla.  I explained the process previously.  Look it up.  That's why there is a search box at the top righthand corner of every Blue Marble Album page.

In addition, the detective involved in the 1978 case testified to the 2018 PA grand jury that he simply believed the story told that a 12 year children told to him in 1978, because the detective ... like most Americans in the 1970s ... didn't believe that 12 year old children would ever lie to a police officer.  

That is to say, the detective had no forensics evidence against Cipolla, at all.  Yet, he did have a suspicious item found in Cipolla's residence ... a stethoscope.  

Cipolla responded to the suspicious item's existence, by saying that he used to belong to a missionary religious order ... as a seminarian ... and he claimed that he occasionally collected medical equipment for the missions.  We need to know if other medical equipment items were found, as well.  Where did the 1978 investigation inventory list go?

None the less, Cipolla was completely cut-off from the Diocese of Pittsburgh.  Period.  In contrast, Leo Burchianti was completely accommodated by Bishops Wuerl and then Zubik, even though his accusers were very credible ... even though Burchianti looked "as guilty as sin" ... even though his alleged actions were said to have reached the point of the felony level of crime.  Thus, Wuerl treated priests in his diocese very unequally.

In fact, Wuerl gave convicted felon, Fr Richard Zula, a retirement package.

Moreover, Wuerl gave convicted felon, Fr Bob Wolk, a monthly stipend of $1,500.  He did the same with convicted felon, Fr Edward Huff.

Then came Francis Pucci whom Wuerl allowed to say Mass for the local Sisters of the Holy Spirit religious order, while obtaining a $1,500 per month stipend.  Meanwhile, Cipolla received nothing, even though he was NOT a convicted felon. 

      The Scorecard on Burchianti went as follows:

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/PA_40th_GJ/Cases_and_Profiles/2018_08_14_PA_GJ_Priests_Pittsburgh_06_Burchianti.pdf

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Wuerl had zero new evidence against Cipolla before famous Vatican rehearing

The most blatant piece of evidence which shows that the letter below was sent in desperation and dire need consists in the fact that it was mailed during HOLY WEEK.   And of course, Holy week is the most heavily scheduled week in the year, for any parish priest.  

The Holy Week factor here IS evidence in itself that Wuerl was on the urgent hunt for anything which could be used against Cipolla in a court of canon law.  Wuerl could not wait until after Easter 1993 had ended.  That's desperation.  And of course, this shows that Wuerl had zero "due cause" for any rehearing at the Vatican's highest court, in the first place.  Instead of having "due cause," Wuerl had "connections at the Vatican."

PLUS,  Ann Rodgers had a Pgh Post Gazette article published, where she mentioned that Wuerl had his briefcases of evidence with him, as he walked off the plane, in Rome.  The letter below shows that there was no new evidence in any of Wuerl's briefcases, as he strolled through the Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport, in 1993.

Above is the Tale of the Tape.  The famous Vatican rehearing on the Cipolla Case was scheduled for April 16, 1993.  The letter above was sent out on April 6th of the same year.

The diocese of Donald Wuerl was looking for character witnesses against Cipolla.  So, the diocese sent the request letter above to priests who served with or near Cipolla, in the quest for any statement of any kind which could make Cipolla look bad.  

Well, if Cipolla were the molester whom Tim Bendig and Diane Thompson said he were, then there would have been a treasure trove of evidence that would have utterly defeated Cipolla in any court of law.  But, there was not.  

Tim Bendig was proven to be a con artist, even in the 2010s.  In fact, when Bendig got his sizable settlement from Wuerl, he did NOT spend a penny of it on intense & specialized psychiatric treatment, as he told the media he would do.  

Instead, Bendig purchased the Two Step Lounge through the Levitske Brothers partnership.  That business that Bendig operated with Pittsburgh parishioner money went under very quickly.  This means that Bendig "blew through his cash."

The 2016 Randy Engel article about Diane Thompson's accusations against Cipolla was scrupulously fact-checked and found to be a pack of lies.  

For those unaware, Randy Engel is/was a woman who graduated from the SUNY Cortland, in 1961.  That's the State University of New York ... at Cortland.  

I literally don't know if she is still alive.  After all, when she was born FDR was president, there were only 48 states, and Hitler was in power.  In fact, Mussolini was heavily in power, too.

Concerning Randy Engel having been smugly confident that Cipolla repeatedly molested Tim Bendig, official lawmen in the United States didn't concur with her.  

Due to Bendig, there was an investigation of Cipolla in Allegheny County, in the late 1980s.  That is where Pittsburgh is located.  No probable cause or evidentiary support was found.  This resulted in Anthony Cipolla NOT BEING ARRESTED ... NOT BEING INDICTED.

There was also Bendig going to the county northwest of Allegheny County; namely Beaver County.  For those unaware, Beaver County was the home of Joe Namath, Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett, Super Bowl Coach Mike Ditka, and Hall of Fame lineman Jimbo Covert who was our summer league team's catcher, as well as one of the nicest guys in the entire town, along with his brother.

At this point look at the official assessment below, concerning the county northwest of Allegheny County.  Well, Beaver County Pennsylvania's DA also ordered an investigation of Bendig's accusations against Cipolla.

Beaver County was also the home of a number of steel mills and the largest push button railroad in the world ... at one time ... when I was a kid and even a teenager.  In the end, Beaver County's justice department found no due cause and no evidence to indict Cipolla.

And of course, Diane Thompson proved herself to be a liar in her having claimed that Anthony Cipolla was operating this website under an assumed name ... under a fake name ... under my name.  

She also said that you could search the internet all day and not find anything about me, meaning that I don't exist.  Well, Cipolla has been dead for ten years.  Yet, this site continues to be operated, and it's not his ghost who operates this website.  

In addition, Diane Thompson would send me emails, while publicly claiming that there is no evidence of my existence.  She even once sent an email to my Australian gal which really upset that gal.  After all, some people value their privacy.

Well, my name is attached to a lot of things, including a driver's license and social security number, as well as an auto insurance policy, a bank account, and NUMEROUS purchase order signatures for construction material.  

In fact, my name is attached to hundreds of writings and hundreds of photographs which have included photoshoots of entire cities such as ~Chicago, ~Pittsburgh, ~Baltimore,  ~Cleveland, and the oldest city in America, namely ~St. Augustine, Florida.  

My photography has also included two national park ... including Gettysburg ... a state park, an Air Force Museum, a famous New Mexico chapel, and two college campuses. 

Then there are actual photos of me online ... of me with a lady here and a lady there ... as well as me with a college buddy here and a sports coach there ... with me operating heavy equipment ... even with me holding construction plans that novices call "blue prints."  

There are also photos of my parents and other relatives, online.  Thus, Diane Thompson is a manipulative liar who has no credibility.

All in all, if Diane Thompson would lie about me so ridiculously, then she would lie about others.  In fact, if she could have made money lying about you, then she would have done so, at your expense.  In fact, all that she is accomplished at doing is lying and mocking people.

That Black Methodist Church Vandalism

Long ago there were two acts of vandalism against the nearby Black Methodist Church.  There was a fire extinguisher vandalism and then the slitting of all the tires in the parking lot.  

Predictably enough, Randy Engel wrote that Diane Thomspson's son  did at least one of the vandalisms, out of emotional frustration, caused by Cipolla molesting him.  Well, two lads were arrested & charged for that pair of vandalisms and none of the two was Diane Thompson's son.

The motivation for those two crimes had nothing to do frustration, due to molestation.  Those two crimes were motivated by shear, hate-filled racism.  Period.

Diane Thompson and her eldest son proved themselves to be liars ... liars for money ... six figures of US currency.  They both had a severe Conflict of Interest, as in $ $ $. 

Very Intense Research was done

The research into Diane Thompson's accusations, as well as her eldest son's accusations, was so intense that one of the two men who were claimed by Thompson to have been the detectives of the 1978 case was found and interviewed.  That gentleman was located through the Pittsburgh Steeler Organization.  

There were NOT two detectives in the short-lived 1978 case.  Diane Thompson spent too much time watching Starsky & Hutch, on Wednesday nights, back in the 1970s.

That man was NOT a detective in 1978.  He was an uniformed officer who met Diane Thompson once.  He took notes, transposed the notes into a short report, and then he gave the report to the one and only detective assigned to the case.  From that point and onward, that gentleman had nothing to do with Diane Thompson.

Futhermore, that gentleman was extremely articulate and alert, as well as well-mannered ... at least while talking to me. 

The second man mentioned by Randy Engel as the second detective was NOT a detective either, in 1978.  In fact, cases usually have only one detective.  Period.  This is pursuant to the American concept of Chain of Command.

And of course, it took an average of 52 days for a forensics lab to produce a test result in 1978.  Diane Thompson & Randy Engel made it sound as if a forensics test was accomplished within a day or two, in 1978.  

In specificity, Randy Engel stated that young Tucker had to be taken to the hospital, and at the hospital, DNA testing was performed, resulting in test results a day or two later.  This was a HUGE LIE, because DNA testing could only be done at a forensics lab.  And then, the police and/or district attorney's office would have to wait about 52 days for official results, "in those days."

The reality is that there was NO LAB TESTING involved in the 1978 Cipolla Case.  There was no evidence at all.  The sole detective of the case simply believed Diane Thompson's eldest son, because he believed that all 12 year-old children always told the truth.   

Quite frankly, in 1978 most of us Americans believed that 12 year old lads wouldn't dare lie to the police.  At the time, we didn't entertain the concept of 12 year lads being under duress ... being coerced into lying, by grown-ups.

The average American assumed that, in the Land of the Free, there was no manipulation of children ... generally speaking.  Then came the revealing 1980s, when youths were proven to be able to lie and lie thoroughly ... to the point of telling super embarrassing allegations that were easy to prove false.

The McMartin Case ... a thoroughly sick joke of defamation

A case-in-point was the 1983-1990 McMartin Pre-School case which showed that children are very capable of lying.  There were a number of pre-school cases which amounted to social workers making suggestive and misleading questions which resulted in children and pre-teens lying.   

Plus, on occasion, a parent would coerce a child into lying to the police.  In 1988, when Bendig claimed to have been molested by Cipolla ... but not until AFTER Bendig got kicked-out of the seminary, for very poor grades and very poor conduct ... the McMartin Case was still underway, with all of its sensationalistic hysteria.  And of course, hysteria has a way of spreading.

And remember, one of the accusations in the McMartin case was that human sacrifices were occurring on McMartin property.  Well, there were NO MISSING CHILDREN in the local vicinity, to begin with.  Yet, the authorities were deceived enough to have ordered heavy equipment to literally dig-up the place ... to no avail.

Another allegation made by youth, in the McMartin Case, was FLYING WITCHES.

There was also the Chaneya Kelly case.  In fact ...

Anyway, in a couple of other Blue Marble Album posts, there is the line-itemization of proven lies conveyed by Randy Engel in her 2016 article which sent Cipolla into emotional stress so severe that, soon thereafter, Cipolla underwent some type of FATAL heart failure/attack.  The coroner's conclusion for Cipolla, in August of 2016, was a probable cardiac arrythmia.

In my personal "private citizen's" opinion, protected under NY Times v Sullivan, Randy Engel killed Anthony Cipolla.  She killed Cipolla pursuant to the famous American legal doctrine known as the EGGSHELL SKULL RULE.  Lies kill.  In fact, liars kill.

No one from any of Cipolla's 1970s youth groups accused him of wrongdoing.  The opposite occurred:

The Pgh Diocese Needed to Demonize Cipolla in 1993

So in review, the Diocese of Pittsburgh needed character witnesses who would attest to Cipolla negatively ... to show indication that Cipolla was mentally ill and could not perform his priestly duties.

Bendig's accusations against Cipolla was NOT a part of the Vatican case.  Diane Thompson's accusations against Cipolla was NOT a part of the case, either.  The entire case rested on St. Luke's Institute diagnosing Cipolla as Clinically Depressed with Suicidal Tendencies vs St. Michael's of NYC declaring Cipolla to have been mentally healthy and simply the aggrieved victim of defamation.

Wuerl's Specifically Observed Hypocrisy in pushing for the Dismissal of Cipolla via a diagnosis of Mental Illness

In the court of canon law, Wuerl made the Saint Luke Institute's diagnosis of Cipolla Wuerl's only justification for removing Cipolla.  Now, tell me.  What is wrong with this picture?

ANS:  If Donald Wuerl really did believe that Anthony Cipolla were severely suicidal, then he would have called the police and filed a "302" on Cipolla, thereby getting Cipolla involuntarily committed in a mental institution for 3 days of observation.  This should have been the situation, especially AFTER the St. Luke Institute's diagnosis.  

When you are suicidal, you are a danger to yourself.  When you are a danger to yourself, a "302" is the remedy to protect you from yourself.  You simply go on a suicide watch, by professionals, some of whom have enough muscular fitness to keep you from hurting yourself.

In fact, when St. Luke's Institute dismissed Cipolla, its doctors were de facto claiming that Cipolla wasn't suicidal enough to keep in confinement.  None the less, Cipolla was declared suicidal ... and therefore a danger to himself.  But, St Luke's doctors released Cipolla into the public, anyway.

Suicidal Tendency Diagnosis was proven false, by Cipolla's life

Time proved the Suicidal Tendencies diagnosis to have been a false diagnosis, by the simple observation that Cipolla went 27 years without ever trying to kill himself.  He went from 1989 to 2016, trying to figure out how to financially stay alive.  St Luke's gave Cipolla a bogus diagnosis.  Cipolla was set-up.

For those unaware, a 302 in Pennsylvania law is the 72 Hour Observation law.  It means that, when the police show cause that you are either a danger to yourself or to others, you are legally taken to a mental institution, and put under observation for 72 hours.  If you turn out to be a danger to yourself or to others, then you stay longer than three days at the mental health clinic.

Diocesan Desperation

For a bishop to have his general secretary send out a request like the one above, at such a late time ... especially during Holy Week ... shows desperation.

In Wuerl's request for a rehearing at the Apostolic Signatura Court, he merely stated conditionally that there MIGHT HAVE BEEN factual discrepancies in the Cipolla Case.  He did NOT state that there definitely were some discrepancies.  So, he had to find some.  He kept looking for it, even ten days before the rehearing.

In the first hearing, Cipolla was represented by Count Neri Cappone of Florence.  It went smoothly, and the Signatura ordered Wuerl to reinstate Cipolla.   Concerning the second hearing, I already explained how Wuerl won it.  There's a search box at the top right hand side of this page.  Go look it up.

Author Father John Hardon supported Cipolla

I have a copy of the letter, and I posted it years ago.  I even posted photos of John Hardon standing with Cipolla and Pope John Paul II.  For those unaware, Fr John Hardon authored a catechism book, and I used that book while in college.

Cipolla was too ill to molest anyone in 2016.  

So, why did Engel rip at Cipolla's reputation with allegations that she did NOT test.  She did NOT test any of the accusations for truthfulness ... test for cracks ... test for contradictions.  And why?  Well, it's because her New Jersey Battle Ax Hag friend insisted that that Cipolla was what the proven Liar Tim Bendig said he was.

Well, it was the same New Jersey Hag who assured Randy Engel that there was no way in Hell that I did construction work ... because of my asthma ... despite photos of me with heavy equipment, despite numerous witnesses who saw me do construction work, and despite hundreds of signed purchase orders, with my name on them.  

In fact, if you walk around downtown Pittsburgh long enough, you WILL walk on my work ... literally.  But of course, it's mostly co-work, done with a construction crew ... or at least one other construction worker.  

I've worked at 280 to 300 sites.  Yes, I was a respiratory invalid for about 12 years.  Then came water-based technology, as well as "reasonable accommodation" law, and one employer in the USA who would accommodate an allergic respiratory condition.

Even at that, I literally quit NINE TIMES, because I couldn't breathe on each occasion.  I literally walked off of construction sites ... and even once walked all the way back to the main company yard where the trailer-office was located.

I endured some frightening asthma events at work ... but of an allergic or irritant-induced nature.  This meant that, if I walked away from the airspace containing the offending allergen or irritant, I would recover.  None the less, in each of the nine times I quit,  I was then granted added accommodations.   

And why?  ANS: Because I am one of the few people who could be trusted with ~hundreds of blank checks, ~all the keys to the business property, including very expensive power tools, ~all the debit cards, ~all the social security numbers of employees, ~all the company vehicles which I drove in trips up to 500 miles at a time.  

Yet, most importantly ... I could be trusted with all of the clients' keys and property.  No missing jewelry.  No missing money.  No missing heirlooms.  No missing persons.  Etc.  

Yes, we are entrusted with customers' keys, belongings, and real estate.  And also, I got to remove from some of those houses those things that were causing me allergic asthmatic reactions.  Such a thing makes a person a master diplomat and a very able teacher.  

Plus, homeowners would always comply ... out of a sense of guilt ... in that they didn't want to be the cause of anyone's asthma attack.  Of course, these were the same home owners or office administrators who would place bottles of drinking water near us, during summer projects ... just to make sure that we wouldn't get too dehydrated.  Literally.

In addition, we do renovation work.  This means that we work on houses, manors, warehouses, and even abandonned historic sites where no one is living.  This means no asthma allergens, due to the absence of household products which contain those asthma allergens.

Plus, I'm not allergic to bees or hornets.  If I were, then I would not be in construction  Those creatures are encountered in renovation work, and I have most certainly been stung at work.

Moreover, there is a yard exactly 2.1 miles away from where I am, at present.  If there is anything which triggers my asthma, I take it to that yard.  If that yard didn't exist, then I would not be in construction.  There are also two garages we rent about nine or ten miles away.  But that is mostly reserved for the most expensive machinery.

Now, the only problem with construction-related asthma is liquid substances that are not water-based ... and which are high in VOC's.  Well, when a solvent-based liquid is poured out of its container, applied, and dried, the asthma allergens are eventually gone ... cleared out ... outgassed ... dissipated.  

But of course, Randy Engel's battle ax friend who presents herself as an expert in everything apparently has no experience in construction ... especially in the behavior of construction materials.

All in all, Randy Engel's advisor is an easily spooked battle ax, in the 1950s meaning of the phrase.  Now, I'm not going to call her a mentally ill psychotic.  But, I witnessed her literally being a "screaming mimi."  She simply doesn't trust people.  

However, she is an over-domineering control freak, as the 1960s meaning of the phrase goes.  None the less, Randy Engel had the wrong advisor.  Randy Engel had an executioner for an advisor, showing that Engel was an easily deceived dupe.

Cipolla's Frail Health

The scorecard on Cipolla was 1} Severe heart condition which included bypass surgery,  2} Diabetes, 3} Arthritis, 4a} Neuropathy, and  4b} a history of severe back pain, even during his last days on Earth.  I personally heard him in pain, over the phone, more than once.

If you thought that exonerating Cipolla would result in him running around town, molesting children, then you are either out of touch with reality or you were the New Jersey Conspiracy Theory Housewife Friend of Randy Engel who caused more than enough stress on the man who had a severe heart condition.  Cipolla was in too much physical pain, to run around and molest any children. 

Plus, the exact way in which Engel claimed that Cipolla molested young Tucker was not physically viable.  Such action would cause tremendous pain to a nine year old.  

Ironically, true molestation cases involve the actions occurring in the opposite manner.  It's usually the children's hand invading an adult's privacy, rather than a grown man's hand invading a much smaller child's private section.   Diane Thompson and Tucker thought of the wrong lie to tell Randy Engel.  But, Engel was stupid enough to believe them.

Unlike Randy Engel, I'm trying to not be graphic in descriptions here ... which is the way of private academy students from country club families.  We were taught to not be crass and to not make scenes.  It was called "being discrete."  Engel was an awkward bull in a China shop.  Randy Engel is nothing more than a gossip.  Period.

I can assure you that, in his medical condition, Cipolla was harmless until he got behind a steering wheel.  But, Wuerl made sure that Anthony Cipolla would be abandoned enough to not have a driver or have anything else that makes life easier ... and safer.  

It has now been ten years

The man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla had a residential auto accident and not a highway accident.  However, a witness said that  the car appeared to have been traveling at a high enough speed to result in a final catastrophe.

The front of Cipolla's auto hit a tree on Warren Ohio's Elm Road, near the Clermont Avenue intersection, where the Warren Bible Methodist Church is located.  He was dead at the scene, and the engine was pushed into the front seat.   

In fact, Cipolla was thrown from his car.  Randy Engel literally tormented Anthony Cipolla to death ... and for allegations which exhaustive fact-checking proved to be false ... especially in what a 1978 police officer stated to me personally, during an interview.  Randy Engel killed a helpless man.

I originally assumed about Cipolla ... for over twenty years ... what everyone else assumed ...

... only because Ann Rodgers of the Pgh Post Gazette and others lied to us all ... in a false light fashion ... in a sleight of hand fashion ... in a smoke-&-mirrors fashion.

And yes, I originally assumed that Cipolla was as guilty as sin ... just like everyone else did.  In fact, I objected to the offer of me personally meeting with him.  

More specificallly, when the voice on the other end of the line said that he scheduled a meeting with Cipolla, my first response literally was:  "Why do you want to waste your time on that case?"  I assumed that Cipolla was completely guilty.  But, I went anyway, out of "private academy, country club family" diplomacy.  

Big Question:  What was my original goal in meeting Cipolla?  

ANS:  To get him to finally confess what Tim Bendig and Diane Thompson said he did.  

Result: After a "scouring amount" of fact-finding AND document reading, as well as witness-interviewing, it turned out that Bendig and Thompson were the liars, per se.  And remember, both Diane Thompson and Bendig are stereoptypically regarded as White Trash.

So, I meet Cipolla, assuming him to be as a guilty as sin

Then came Cipolla with a box of evidence which ended up changing everything I originally assumed about the case.  Then came my own personal free-of-charge investigation.  The details are here, at the Blue Marble Album, along with several other subjects which involved heavily-involved research.  

I even located Cipolla's twin sister and electrician brother, speaking with them at length.

There was a lot of really hard work done in the Cipolla Case, the Torquato Case, etc, etc, etc, to say the least.  But, it was all for nothing.  Wuerl went about his way, unaccountable.  However, Wuerl has accomplices who need to answer for certain things.

There was exhaustive research work done in the subjects addressed here, at the Blue Marble Album.  If there is not exhaustive research involved, then I don't address the subject.

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.  

After all, Padre Pio Prayer Group were not at all violent.  Period.  They were NOT tire slitters or window smashers.  I meet them ... in detail ... time and time again.  

My Australian gal met them, too.  A couple of those people were disabled.  Very humble.  Some were quite athletic, meaning disciplined.  The president of that prayer group was an engineer, meaning mentally disciplined.  One was a retired coal miner.  Another one was a carpenter, just like St. Joseph.  One of them was even Pared Pio's altar server, shortly after WWII, being that American GI's were stationed in Italy, even after the war.

None the less, this case's pertinence shows how deceitful Donald Wuerl was.  He showcased the hyper-exaggerations of the Cipolla Case, in order to divert attention away 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?