Transcript of a letter written by the Late Anthony Cipolla

Below, toward the end of this post, is a letter Anthony Cipolla sent to me.  After I read it, I called him and asked him if I could post it for public view.

And of course, public view for my sites span from Asia to Russia to the Ukraine to the United Arab Emirates to Western Europe to English speaking America to Canada to Australia.  The bottom line here is that, when Cipolla sent me that letter, he assumed that I would be the only one to ever read it.  He then let anyone else available to read it.

Incidentally ...

For the record, if I pledge my confidentiality you to, it's a law to me.  Proof is simple:  Name one of my sources.  If you can do so, then you hacked into my life.  None the less, a lot of writers keep confidentiality.  It isn't hard to do.

2018 Update:

NOW ... In light of the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, it was found that there were TWO DIFFERENT STORIES attached to the Cipolla Case.  One story was the one promoted by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, conspiracy theory writer Randy Engel, and the 1978 accusing mother herself.

The other story was that which sat in the Pittsburgh diocesan files and which was regarded as the credible story by the grand jury.

The grand story was far more tame and credible that the overly ridiculous Post Gazette & Randy Engel story of an ARREST which NEVER happened, followed by a harrowing post-arrest retaliation which never happened, either.

The fictional version of the Cipolla Case mentioned tires getting slit and windows being smashed.  Then came Randy Engel's play-by-play account of the arrest and prosecution which never happened.  Everything that Engel claimed happened is 100% contrary to the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure.

She even wrote of DA Bob Colville strong-arming the 1978 accusing mom into signing a sheet of paper which "drops charges."  Of course, once charges are filed in American, no civilian can dismiss them.  

And and and, when you are indicted, you are NOT sent to Police Station #1, 2,3, or 4 for any kind of bail hearing and/or arraignment.  You are sent to COUNTY JAIL, and then to a county magistrate's office. The Engel Article was a fiction that hid from the true Cipolla Case.  The true Cipolla Case was only one determining question attached to it.

All in all, the public account of the Cipolla Case was hyper-exaggerated and hysterically sensationalized to the point of it being libel to DA Bob Colvile and any friend Cipolla had in 1978.  Donald Wuerl had the moral obligation to notify the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that the Cipolla Case was being presented in a ridiculously gluttonous form of Tabloid Journalism.  

But of course, that excessively dramatic story made Wuerl look like a holy holy hero who speared a diabolical camp of monsters.  So, Wuerl let you be deceived into thinking that he was the most heroic man on the planet, when he was being a hypocritical snake.

All in all, the version of the Cipolla Case, as was told from 1995 to 2016, was a hyper-sensationalistic fiction.  In 2018 version is the more sane and credible version, coming from the diocesan secret archives.  Concerning the archives, there was the inclusion of a report mentioning the existence of a lubricant on a young lad's undergarment.

Well, the 1995 to 2016 version of the Cipolla Case claimed that the 1978 accusing mother was strong-armed into signing a sheet of paper that was going to expunge the Cipolla Case.  Well, the 2018 PA grand jury finding was that the 1978 Cipolla Case was NOT expunged.

This is another instance where the narration given by the accusing mother of 1978 was a complete lie, as such a narration was given to the public.  This involves only Version I of the Cipolla Case narration which ran from 195 to 2016.

In re:  The 2018 PA grand jury version of the case.

It described the predictable and stereotypical way a diocese at the time handled sexual aggression accusations.  No slit tires.  No smashed windows, etc.  Rather, it described the typical snakejob, headlined by the presence of lawyers.  

The real Cipolla Case was a dime-a-dozen lawyer intervention case.  Such a thing, absent of ridiculous Bruce Willis movie plots, and absent of Tom Cruz adventure movie plots, is what gives a narration its credibility.

What you must understand about those abuse victims is this:

As was confided to me but a certain clergy sexual aggression victim is that that which tears into & torments a victim's mind is the Subtle & Pernicious Invisibility of the sexual aggression, so deceptively handled that the case is made to look as if the sexual aggression never happened.

It's the feeling a absence --- the Whitewashed Wall --- the removal of all of the stage scenery --- and the complete silence which tortures the sexual aggression victim.  It's not slit tires and smashed windows which does it.  It's the Alfred Hitchcock movie feeling that does.  The proverbial room get emptied-out and whitewashed, as if nothing ever happened in that proverbial room that tortures a person.  

It's the No-Accountability aspect that tortures the victim.  THEREFORE,  the silent, smooth-talking and silently intimidating presence of the lawyers which is far far far more of a nightmare scenario than slit tires and smashed windows.

One more quick point:  I have enumerated this 2018 version of the Cipolla Case in an August 2018 post.  For now, simply understand that the entire case pivots on one piece of evidence:

         a medical report mentioning the existence of a lubricant

         found on the nine year old child's undergarment.  It was

         a report that the writer, Randy Engle, stated no longer

         existed.  The bottom line is this:

        If you can prove that the 1978 accusing mother did NOT plant

        that lubricant in her son's shorts, in order to fame Cipolla, then

        the case is closed.  Remember, it's the subtle things that make

        or break a case.  For example:

If the accusing mother of 1978 had been honest from the beginning, and if she said that, in 1978, properly attired lawyers sat her down and convinced her into withdrawing her 1978 private criminal complaint, then the alarms and rotating lights would have been ringing in my mind, with me thinking to myself, "Those (censored)!"   That was undue influence.

The subtle & plain things give credibility, NOT a ridiculously harrowing scene from Starwars, Bruce Willis movies, or Tom Cruz movies.  Simplicity brings clarity and at least a significant measure of credibility, if it can not bring a closed case.  The Cipolla Case of 2018 is entirely different than the pathetically ridiculous Cipolla Case Narration of 1995 to 2016.

Back to the original part of the September 2015 post on the Cipolla Letter.  We start with the editor's preliminary statement, and then move to Anthony Cipolla's statement:

Take note of the fact that I have called Tim Bendig a liar, yet he never sued me.  This is pertinent to note, being that Bendig is known to yell  "I'll sue" and "I'll ruin you," as a reflex action.   For example, a writer for a northeastern metro newspaper recently contacted me and conveyed the following: 

       I just had a bizarre interaction with Tim Bendig and found your site while digging up more information about him.  Has he ever threatened to sue you because of your blog?   He strikes me as the type.   Has he ever tried any other harassing techniques?

For those unfamiliar, Tim Bendig is the seminary dropout who accused a man once known as Father Anthony Cipolla of having engaged in long-term sex abuse that Bendig could never corroborate or even plausibly substantiate.

He made the accusations only after Cipolla told members of the Padre Pio Prayer Group to stop sending Bendig donation money, on account of his withdrawal from the seminary.  Donald Wuerl originally declared Bendig "not credible."

Bendig was found to be a chronic liar, due to the number of people who kept contacting me and telling me how he lied to them and threatened to 'ruin them.'  The allegations of Bendig's con artist conduct came from as far away as Hollywood.  

Then, Bendig was given my phone number and he contacted me, only to lie to me about something that pertained to documentation that I had in possession.  Everything he said was contrary to the documentary evidence that I possessed.  It involved the following piece of evidence which was a notice given by the Beaver County PA district attorney's office that there were NO GROUNDS upon which to file any kind of criminal charge against Cipolla.

One more thing:  Tim Bendig proved that he was more than willing to destroy a human life, concerning someone who turned out to be completely innocent as accused --- with Jpeg evidence and fact-checking results to prove said innocence.  

That is to say, if Cipolla did molest anyone, then it was NOT the way described by Bendig or Diane Thompson or certain Pittsburgh Post Gazette writers.  

If you have evidence of Cipolla having been a molester, I'll post it for you.  Thus far, there was only one source who made me wary of Cipolla until further fact-checking was done.

Even at that, that which is needed is for the two sons of Diane Thompson to come forth and make formal statements, stating if whether or not they accuse Anthony Cipolla of molestation or did their mom fabricate the entire story.

It is very bizarre that "the mommy" was the only one ever to speak on the 1978 accusations against Cipolla.  Usually, a chief of police or detective or prosecutor makes a public statement in outlining the crimes alleged to have occurred.  Decades after the fact, someone writes memories on the case.

In fact, in all this time, Bendig's replacement attorney, Douglas Yauger, never chastised me or came forth to defend Diane Thompson.  Donald Wuerl did not do so, either.  Neither did one of Wuerl's two principle pit-bull attack dogs.  

No one involved in the Bendig Case or 1978 accusations ever came forth to defend Diane Thompson and corroborate her damning accusations against the deceased Anthony Cipolla who was being tortured by Diane Thompson and the defamatory Randy Engel, during the final year of his life.  

How would you like it if you never got a moment of peace from a brawling hag who was fact-checked and found to be a pathological liar.  If Cipolla ever molested anyone, it was not according to the accusations of Diane Thompson who contradicted herself repeatedly.  It would also not be according to the Tim Bendig who was originally declared NOT credible by Donald Wuerl.

Observe how much of a liar Bendig is:  The McGuire Home was heavily monitored, being that it was a medical facility for the most afflicted of children.  Cipolla would have been caught, if he were having sodomite relations with Bendig there, and the nuns would have had Cipolla out of the home pronto.

Therefore, the fact that Anthony Cipolla was in good-keeping with the sisters is evidence in itself, favorable to Cipolla.  Bendig was foolish to have chosen the McGuire Home in his allegations.

Plus, it wasn't a very seductive and/or lust-inducing place, to say the least.  In fact, Bendig claimed that Cipolla first molested him while Bendig had the flu.  Well, the reasonable person can assure you that people are not that much of a lustful temptation when they have the flu.  

2026 minus 1973 = In 53 years, no one in this youth group ever accused Cipolla of any wrongdoing.  In fact, Cipolla's youth program in northeastern New Jersey was much larger, and no one from that program ever accused him of wrongdoing, either ... in the past 54 years.  

If Cipolla were the molesting monster Ann Rodgers and the Pgh Post Gazette made him out to be, the phone at the Pittsburgh diocesan building would have been ringing off the hook, in 2002, when sex abuse casualties came forth, stating their accusations.

None of the youth on any of Cipolla's pilgrimages accused him of wrongdoing, either.  In addition, Cipolla had 70+ witnesses, a subset of which were youth, ready to testify for him at the Bendig civil lawsuit  trial that never came to be.  

By now, some credible person somewhere would have come forth

and cried out, "J'accuse!"  But, no one ever did.  This places Bendig's credibility rating into the single digits, if not  negative ones.   Incidentally, would Wuerl have been motivated to settle out of court, on account of  Bendig stating that he knew for sure that Donald Wuerl was a practicing homosexual?

Above are very important words that Ann Rodgers left out of her news articles about Cipolla.

Directly below is Anthony Cipolla's own statement, written at night, shortly after the memory of what Wuerl did to him rocketed though his mind like a late night movie.  I asked his permission to publicly post it, incidentally, and received the permission.  So, don't think that I'm betraying any confidentiality.

In regards to my case,  Wuerl  persecuted me to the ultimate degree.   He went after me, to protect himself, and he couldn't stand the fact that I reported him to the Office of the Clergy; the very office where he worked as secretary to the late John Cardinal Wright who was the Prefect of the Office of the Clergy.

Wuerl was covering up for Wright who was a homosexual and an ephebophile.  For me to accuse Wuerl of harassment in the very office where he worked for 10 years was an embarrassment to him.  So, he was determined to use me as an example that, if any priest would try to go to the Office of the Clergy and accuse Wuerl of anything, the priest wouldn't get too far.

As a matter of fact, the Office of the Clergy went in favor of Wuerl.  So, I lost the case (at the initial level of the Vatican judiciary.)  Then, through the advice of my canon lawyer, I reported Wuerl to the Signatura and won the case.  But, Wuerl publicly said that he had factual information about me (not yet revealed) and that he would have the decision of the Signatura reversed.

I had already sent everything to the Signatura, including Diane Thompson’s accusation of sexual impropriety with Tucker Thompson, her 9 yr old son.  Therefore, no one knew what new facts he could possibly have had.   

If he had anything, he certainly had enough time to submit it to the Signatura, while the case was being investigated.   In fact, Count Neri Capponi who worked for the Signatura said that Wuerl had nothing, but 'old wives tales.'

To the shock of everyone involved, Wuerl did have the decision reversed. So, I was in Limbo.

It is strongly believed that Wuerl has his protectors in the Vatican and can get whatever he wants.  Wuerl had me forced-laicized.  He assigned me to St. John Vianney, home for retired priests, and then withdrew my salary and later my health insurance.

I had no money to live on, to pay medical bills with, and to afford various other needs.   He then wrote me a letter, saying that I  must send him all of my income tax returns from 1991 to 1996, so he could set up a task force to decide on how much money I should receive.  

I phoned my CPA who was shocked at Wuerl's behavior, in the way he was treating me, because I was never arrested, never arraigned, never tried or convicted, as the other priests.  So why was Wuerl going after me so viciously?

One lawyer phoned me from another state, telling me that he left the Church because of the news of how Wuerl was treating me.  (He left the church) even though I tried to convince him (the attorney) that Wuerl is not the Church and that I strongly believed that Wuerl was highly influenced by the Devil.

I had to find another canon lawyer to at least get my money back, so that I could live and at least sustain myself.  So, I phoned the Canon Law Society of America.   They recommended Father Alfred Kunz, a canon lawyer and exorcist from Madison, Wisconsin. 

Father Kunz told me that what Wuerl was doing to me was against Canon Law and to not worry; that he would get my money back.  This was 1996.  On March 4, 1993, Father Kunz was murdered in cold blood, in his rectory.

I talked with Father two days before he was murdered.  A priest friend phoned me on my answering machine that I remotely accessed, saying:

"Father Cipolla, I have some very bad news, your canon lawyer, Father Kunz was murdered last night in his rectory.  I am very

sorry to tell you this and I feel very bad and I hope to God that
they catch the person or persons who did this and that he will
get life."

I just burst into tears and couldn't stop crying or attempt to drive my car.