Shortly before Kunz's death, he agreed to represent Anthony Cipolla
in a court of Canon Law, for the sole purpose of winning for Cipolla
the monthly stipend/pension due to Cipolla.
Fr. Kunz's exact words on the issue allegedly were that Donald Wuerl
didn't have to assign Anthony Cipolla (to ministry), but he did have to sustain him.
Even when a priest is actually guilty of ill conduct, his bishop must provide him with a pension which, in Roman Catholic nomenclature, is a stipend. Wuerl denied Cipolla his stipend, thereby violating Canon Law, as was previously mentioned. Alfred Kunz then came forth, offering his services to Anthony Cipolla. In the spirit of a vicious form of Murphy's Law, Cipolla lost his advocate.
As of 2013, the Anthony Cipolla case, as was presented by Ann Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, was found to have been a fraudulent misrepresentation of the facts, to the point of constituting something known as Invasion of Privacy in a False Light. After all, Tim Bendig was repeatedly called a pathological liar by those who spoke to me about him, and the 1978 accuser's "newspaper testimony" was found to have contained blatant falsehoods.
In addition, the first Vatican Signatura hearing only addressed the fact that St. Lukes diagnosed Cipolla as suffering from Depression and Suicidal Tendencies, while St. Michael's of New York gave Cipolla a clean bill of mental health, saying that it was normal to be sad when your reputation is defamed.
The second hearing was dependent upon a Polish archbishop would was reputed for always siding with a bishop over his aggrieved priest.
Now, Anthony Cipolla received two plaques of appreciation for his service with youth in Jersey and PA. One plaque came from an NJ police department. The chief of the police department there put a plaque into Anthony's hand, instead of any handcuffs around his wrists.
In 42 years, no one from those venues ever accused Cipolla of any wrongdoing. Thus, Cipolla doesn't look very much like a molester, and substantial evidence (or non-contradictory and non-Swiss-cheese testimony) needs to comes forth, in order to establish such a thing.
In addition, it has been reasonably suspected that Bendig plagiarized the 1978 accusation of Cipolla which never resulted in Cipolla being arrested, indicted, or arraigned ... according to my sources and according to a 2014 Pennsylvania State Police security clearance. The Cipolla case is explained in the December 2014 archive of the Wuerlgate site.
http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2015_06_01_archive.html
Wuerl publicly disassociated himself from Cipolla, so as to wash out of the minds of a very gullible public the memory of Wuerl's Triple Cover-up and Wuerl's ping-pong cover-up of a Father Edward Huff who would also come to be the direct object of a criminal indictment. This meant that Donald Wuerl, long-term secretary of alleged open-secret homosexual hebephile, John Cardinal Wright, was next in line for an indictment which, in all probably, would have been a Summary Offense, unless a district attorney would have gotten Wuerl on obstruction of justice charges.
A summary offense results in nothing more than a fine. It's less than a misdemeanor. None the less, a summary offense conviction would have made the Vatican affix an 'X' over Wuerl's name, when it came time for promoting bishops to the college of cardinals.
