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

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=77AaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fjAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5477,1539593&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bc00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=KSEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3062,4367236&hl=en
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Proof that Wuerl ignored the Child Protective Services Act ... in his cover-up of Wolk, Zula, and Pucci, not to mention Zirwas, Hoehl, Paone, O'Malley, & Huff

Keep in mind that the Donald Wuerl who retaliated against the children of Risen Lord Parish, on account of their parents protesting against Wuerl on TV, was praised as a loving and caring man who only cared about the welfare of children.  Evidence proves that the picture of Wuerl-the-fatherly-protector was a complete lie.  In fact, below is a photocopy of the evidence that Wuerl only cared about himself.

A photocopy of a newspaper article reporting Phase I of Wuerl's uncovered Triple Cover-up at the time it was uncovered is posted several paragraphs below here.  Be patient and scroll down to it, so that you will learn how dishonest Wuerl's propaganda machine always was and is.

This, alone, proves that Wuerl was not the caring and protective bishop that his embedded propagandist, Ann Rodgers, (formerly of the Pgh Post Gazette) made him out to be.  Tiny Donald Wuerl ... the Elevator Shoes Kid ... is one big lie.  

I personally learned of Wuerl's ruthlessness and manipulative modus operandi during both phrases of the James Torquato Retaliations.  To this day, Wuerl was NEVER man enough to have apologized for those whistleblower

retaliations.

Plus, if Wuerl ... or his then-diocese ... would have been indicted & convicted for the offense of having concealed Frs. Wolk, Zula, and Pucci, it (or Wuerl) would have convicted of nothing more than a Summary Offense, in having violated the Child Services Protection Act.   

This means that he ... or his then-diocese ... would have been required to do no more than pay a fine.  However, this would have made Wuerl look bad on record, during Vatican paper-reviews. He probably wouldn't have become a cardinal,  if he or his then-diocese would have been found guilty of violating the Child's Protective Services Act.

Contradiction Time:  

Wuerl was made out to be a non-compromising disciplinarian, but after the Wolk indictment ... the opposite was illustrated.

"To say he will not be reassigned is a devastating thing," said Wuerl to the press shortly after he was caught performing his triple cover-up which was headlined with Father Robert Wolk's indictment.  

The same Donald Wuerl also said to the media, "It is NOT covering up to embrace a man who is suffering."  Yet, Ann Rodgers, (formerly known as Rodgers-Melnick) of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette had the audacity to deceive the public into believing Wuerl to be the bishop of zero tolerance that he never was.

Add to this the fact that Wuerl already reassigned the notorious John Hoehl months prior.  Wuerl had no intention of getting rid of Hoehl until the indictment of Wolk.  Yet, the pathologically bland Ann Rodgers had the audacity to make it look as if Wuerl were the instant disciplinarian from Day 1.  

You now see how far away from zero tolerance Wuerl was.  After all, he made a criminal sound like a victim.  You can now also see how much of a liar was Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.  You need to keep in mind that a faction who praises Wuerl seeks to have him to get the 2,000 year old Roman Catholic Church to declare the repeatedly condemned Sin of Sodom a holy act of God.  Apparently, such people have strong stomachs.

Now, in the Year 2002, when Donald W. Wuerl was being made out to be the holiest male on Earth --- next to the molester Marcial Maciel who was also lauded as a saint --- would you have been praising Wuerl if you knew about his triple cover-up?  

Would writers have been calling that fraud "one of the good guys, if you they knew about DA John C. Pettit announcing to the press that Wuerl was uncooperative during the investigation which resulted in the indictments of Wolk, Richard "Sade" Zula, and Francis Pucci?

Would he have been made the Master of Ceremonies in a St. Patrick's Day parade, if Pittsburghers knew about Wuerl's public excuse for covering-up the crimes of three of his priests, followed by Wuerl publicly denying that it was the act of covering-up at all?   Or would you have categorized him with Bernard Law & Roger Mahoney?

Would you have been praising Wuerl that year, if Ann Rodgers and the Pgh Post Gazette were honest enough to report on the James Torquato case?  It's the case of a former personal secretary of Wuerl spending consecutive years not keeping his hands to himself and then retaliating the moment he was reported.  

You know, the Torquato case has dozens of pieces of evidence attached to it.  It is the single most evidence supported cover-up of Donald Wuerl.

Wuerl was headlined as the bishop who fought the Vatican to remove  "a molester priest," when the fact is that he only attempted to have the priest removed from ministry for what was later called a misdiagnosis of Depression and Suicidal Tendencies.  

The priest was never arrested, yet Wuerl let the papers claim that the priest was.  In fact, that priest, Anthony Cipolla, received a favorable Pennsylvania State Police background check security clearance in the Summer of 2014, where within it was stated that Cipolla has NO ARREST RECORD in the State of Pennsylvania.  For those of you who are brain dead, Cipolla's 2014 security clearance of a huge deal.

This triple cover-up also shows Wuerl's motive in letting Anthony Cipolla be the public scapegoat whose reputation was completely annihilated, despite the overwhelming evidence of Cipolla being the opposite of the media smear campaign launched against him.  

You see, DA John C. Pettit publicly stated, (and I am going by memory on this quote, meaning that it is to be regarded as paraphrased:  "I don't want to make this look like a witch hunt, but we would be sticking our heads in the sands to think that this is an isolated incident."  

This meant that there would be more investigating . . . there was to be more "snooping around," "looking around," "scrutinizing."  So, Wuerl needed a diversionary tactic, to persuade the law enforcement personnel in more than one sovereign state involved to be deceived into thinking that Wuerl was a staunch "zero tolerance" leader.  Wuerl was proven to be no such person.

Wuerl was in a law enforcement spotlight.  This meant that Wuerl needed a smokescreen, to deceive the public into thinking that he was a holy and all so caring saint.   Wuerl did nothing more than masquerade himself as an angel of light, at the expense of others such as an Anthony Cipolla who, unlike the effeminate Donald Wuerl, was found to have zero nexus with the homosexual subculture.  Wuerl, on the other hand, had a definitive nexus with the neo-Sodomite world.

The newspaper jpegs above prove that the slightly built Donald Wuerl thrived on a propaganda machine filled with sleight of hand deceptions and direct falsehoods.

In addition, don't forget that he rode the coattails of John Cardinal Wright, and without the help of the allegedly homosexual John Wright, the Donald Wuerl who accommodated banned Dignity Masses for eight consecutive years would have been nothing.

It was the court system that prompted Wuerl to strike the pose of a strict disciplinarian.  It was all a fraud to have claimed that Wuerl would come to the rescue of the victims of predatory priests such as the Edward Huff whom he kept hiding out in mental institutions and the Father James Torquato whom he sent to Rome while federal court papers had Torquato's name mentioned throughout them.  

Wuerl's artificial pose did not occur until three simultaneous indictments of three Pittsburgh priests occurred under Wuerl's watch, coupled with a DA John Pettit's public accusation that Wuerl's diocese performed uncooperative conduct with police investigators.

Keep in mind that there was no criminal investigation of Wolk, Zula, and Pucci until an attorney friend-of-the-family of the two young play toys reported the matter to the police.  The attorney did not do so until after Wuerl visited the family. 

Despite visiting the family, Wuerl still refused to report Wolk, Zula, and Pucci to the police, as was required in the Child Protective Services Act.  Now you can see more clearly that everything about Wuerl is either an outright lie and or sleight of hand deception.

In addition, Wuerl only went to the home of the traumatized family after their parish pastor was told by them that they were going to report the three molester priests to law enforcement authorities.  The pastor then informed Wuerl.

Do not be deceived.  Ann Rodgers made it sound as if Wuerl were a strict disciplinarian who ousted Hoehl, as soon as he learned of him. No, Wuerl placed Hoehl into chaplaincy ministry, as he did with Huff.  Wuerl did NOT read Hoehl the riot act until Wolk, Zula, and Pucci were criminally indicted.  Then, Hoehl became a hot potato.

Wuerl got rid of Hoehl, so that Wuerl would not get into trouble.  There was no loving and caring bishop involved.  I tell you solemnly, Wuerl was absolutely vicious and heartless while in Pittsburgh.  He was the personification of lies and retaliation.

As a  review, so that it will be clearly understood:

Now, Pgh Post Gazette reporter Ann Rodgers claimed that Wuerl had an epiphany while visiting the traumatized family and then became the "model of zero tolerance" thereafter.  

This claim is easily proven false by the fact that District Attorney John Pettit publicly announced that Wuerl's then Diocese of Pittsburgh did NOT provide the cooperation that the district attorney sought during the criminal investigation.  It was a criminal investigation which didn't commence until someone other than Wuerl notified the police.

If Donald Wuerl were the model of zero tolerance, he would have been the one who reported Wolk, Zula, and Pucci.  Plus, Wuerl would NOT have allowed the 'foot dragging' that a Western Pennsylvanian DA said was being committed by Wuerl's diocese.  Neither would Wuerl have reinstated Hoehl and Huff.  That which was told to you by former Post Gazette writer, Ann Rodgers, and FoxNews are proven falsehoods.

Wuerl's change-the-subject letter, after a priest's criminal indictment

 Keep in mind that Cardinal Wuerl rose to power by riding John Cardinal Wright's coat tails.  If Wuerl weren't Wright's long-term secretary, then Wuerl would have been a nobody in terms of power and influence.

      If Wuerl didn't ride Cardinal Wright's coat tails, Pittsburgh would have many more Catholic parishes and priests than it has today.  Pittsburgh wouldn't have been the last city to end the heretical Dignity Masses which can be described as Sodom & Gomorrah Masses.

In addition, the deacon whistle blower (previously reported at Wuerlgate) would have been a priest at this hour, and chances are that James Torquato would never have been made a parish pastor.

    In addition, Catholic Church property would not have gotten into masonic hands.  Tim Bendig would be a no-name.  More importantly, sweatshop labor profiteering would not have been ignored in Pittsburgh, especially in light of the fact that it was a city famous for championing worker's rights.

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     The change-the-subject letter below was the one that Donald Wuerl wrote shortly after he was caught performing his Triple Cover-up.  Actually, it was the result of the Wolk indictment.  Wolk was the first of the three diocesan priests to get indicted during the end of Wuerl's first year as local ordinary of the RC Diocese of Pittsburgh.  Another word for local ordinary is "bishop."

      Wuerl stated that there was so much to do that Pittsburgh didn't have time to think about his then-diocese having become one of the first dioceses to be scathed in what was to become a coast to coast Watergate of perversity.

      Wuerl was not clever in his evils.  He was a sophomoric writer, especially when comparing him to the laureates with whom I was published in a couple literary anthologies.  He simply had a propaganda machine and a few in-the-pocket politicians who cow-towed to him, on account of the fear that not doing so would offend Pittsburgh's Catholic voters.  They didn't accept the fact that the devout Catholics of Pittsburgh saw Donald Wuerl as the enemy.

      Proof that the devout Catholics of Pittsburgh saw Wuerl as the enemy consisted in the amount of lawsuits filed against Wuerl, as well as complaints sent to Rome against Wuerl ....... not to mention the complaints against Wuerl leveled to the U.S. Papal Nuncio's office in Washington DC, as recently as the Year 2015.  

The most common nickname for Wuerl, while he was in Pittsburgh, was Whirlybird.  This goes to show that Wuerl was widely disrespected by any layman and lay-woman who had any dealings with him.  He was a vicious brat.

      Know this:  While in Pittsburgh Wuerl was either 1) feared, because of his ability to abuse his power and retaliated against you, or 2) resented, because of his ability to abuse his power and retaliate against you.

A Fourth Pittsburgh area molester got away, thanks to Donald Wuerl, ACCORDING to Cleveland Plain Dealer & Bryant Times

In re: Wuerl's Triple Cover-up which resulted in the indictments of Fathers Robert Wolk, Richard Zula, and Francis Pucci, accompanied by District Attorney John C Pettit calling Wuerl and his staff less-than-cooperative.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer mentioned the existence of an alleged fourth assailant in the case involving Frs. Wolk-Zula-&-Pucci.  The Plain Dealer mentioned four additional youths abused by either/or Frs Pucci, Wolk, Zula, the fourth suspect.  The Bryan Times, which served Ohioans on the Northwestern sector of the state reported the same things.

The fourth person was GEORGE ZIRWAS, someone who conveniently found his way to Cuba, only to meet his death in an unholy setting.

Incidentally, Robert Wolk was ordained the exact same year in which Wuerl was.  This would indicate that Wolk and Wuerl were classmates.  This would indicate cronyism in Wuerl's cover-up and in him publicly stating that telling a priest that he can no longer be in ministry "is a devastating thing to do."

    In 2015, Wuerl was hailed as a Poor Richard, living the ascetic life in a closed-down school.  He was then discovered to be living the Marie Antoinette lifestyle, in a $43 million complex, along Washington DC's posh Embassy Row.

Wuerl was being hailed as an ascetic even when he was living 
in this Pittsburgh mansion.  The lies about Wuerl were uncovered 
with documents, photos, and news archives.  He's a walking lie.  

As a humorous note, as soon as I took this photo, a "guard" dog came out of the mansion.   My remaining photos of the area were accompanied with the hostile sound of the dog.

Wuerl only had a zero tolerance track record when it came to having zero tolerance toward whistle-blowers who tried to clean-up the corruption in Wuerl's own diocese.  This included James Torquato's evidence-based accuser.  

You can add the Paul Dorsch who was a credible accuser of the notorious John Hoehl, not to mention the Chris Witkowski whose case was mentioned in the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report.  Chris's perp was John Wellinger.  Also add the previously mentioned whistle-blower roll call the deacon whom Wuerl would never allow to be ordained a priest.

The press treatment of Wuerl has been a very unconscionable lie, regarding him being hailed as a heroic & caring zero tolerance bishop.  He was just another bishop who had his share of cover-ups and even retaliations, all the while having been an eight-year-long rebel against the Vatican ban on Dignity Masses.

All in all, Wuerl was one of the first bishops caught performing a cover-up.  My research shows that he was the second bishop, only preceded by the Lafayette Louisiana diocese's cover-up of Gilbert Gauthe.

The Bryan Times article:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tQYLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jlEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5427,4088961&dq=wolk+arrested+pittsburgh+zula+pucci&hl=en

The Cleveland Plain Dealer article:

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Wuerl's 1993 to 2006 Cover-up of Fr. William P. O'Malley

Wuerl greenlighted William P. O'Malley into an open lane of sexual aggression

Location:  Butler County, the northern sector of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.  Principle Borough:  Meridian, PA.  Keep in mind that Wuerl's Pittsburgh tenure started in February of 1988.  The Great Outrage throughout this time span was that ====> 

Ann Rodgers-Melnick kept defining Wuerl as the Bishop of Zero Tolerance.

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Enter One Father William O'Malley.  1991:  O'Malley was reported in an alert sent to the diocese.  It stated that William P. O'Malley was bestowing under-aged youth with gifts and that he was having them do sleep-overs at the rectory.   A little too Chummy.

1993:  A 22 year old young adult accused O'Malley of having committed sexual assault on him, in a parish rectory.  No action was taken against O'Malley, except for "a warning."       

Note:  Wuerl would not protect any victim over the age of 17.

1997:  Another male accused O'Malley of having sexually assaulted him to a certain degree when he was the age of 12, while the 12 year old was drunk.

At the same time, according to the same accusation, William O'Malley photographed three other boys in their undergarments.  O'Malley did NOT deny the accusations.  However, he did not volunteer any play-by-play details, either.

Only at that point in time did Wuerl order O'Malley into psychiatric assessment and prognosis.  O'Malley was diagnosed as having an unnatural attraction toward high school aged males.

It was a matter of crucifying Christ anew.  Period.

1998:  Instead of practicing Zero Tolerance, Wuerl reinstated O'Malley into ministry and violated the Child Protection Services Act, by refraining from reporting O'Malley to the police.  Wuerl gave O'Malley a post in the diocesan administrative dept.

2002:  More male accusers against O'Malley continued to come forth. It was six in all.  The accusations went into the Year 2006, when Wuerl packed his bags for Washington, DC, all the while being regarded as the ultimate bishop of Zero Tolerance.

Of the additional youth who came forth, the most recent alleged act of sexual aggression was done by O'Malley in 1999.

2003:  O'Malley finally tendered his resignation from Pittsburgh diocesan ministry.

2006:  It was not until the year when Wuerl was to transfer to Washington did Wuerl report O'Malley to the police.

2008:  O'Malley died

On occasion, Wuerl would have an accused priest ride-out the statute of limitations before Wuerl would report the priest.  At other times, Wuerl waited until the priest was soon to approach death, before Wuerl would report the priest.  Wuerl did NOT report O'Malley until two years before O'Malley's death.

Fr Edward Huff: Wuerl Reinstated him. Yet, he would be indicted & convicted.

Pittsburgh's Point State Park, bordering the famous Three River's Confluence,
and within walking distance of the Pgh RC Diocesan Administrative Building.

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Let us review, the life of Cardinal Donald Wuerl is one contiguous lie, always and in every way.  For example, Donald Wuerl did NOT single-handedly or collectively write the Teachings of Christ.  Wuerl

lied to the media about having done so in 1979.  Wuerl was merely one of three editors.  A multiplicity of writers wrote that catechism book, and Wuerl was NOT one of them.

Let us adjourn to the Edward Huff case.  This is one of Wuerl's bigger frauds, simply because, while Wuerl was being praised as a great noble fighter against the evil evil Vatican in the Anthony Cipolla Case, Wuerl was actually covering-up the sexual crimes of Fr. Edward Huff, as well as Frs. Ernest Paone, William O'Malley, John Hoehl, & George Zirwas, not to mention John Wellinger.

Concerning Huff, Wuerl literally reinstated him, as much as Wuerl reinstated John Hoehl the first year Wuerl was RC bishop of Pittsburgh.  So, imagine the following:

     Wuerl was covering-up Fr. Edward Huff, while being paraded around the media outlets as the overly heroic bishop of zero tolerance.  EWTN, decades later would claim that Wuerl removed 18 of 19 priests.  Of course, EWTN has to count the Huff case, for them claim to be true.

Well, their claim is a big lie.  Incidentally, Wuerl reinstated John Hoehl, too.  Then he got rid of Hoehl as soon as Bob Wolk was indicted.  Thus, t is an outrage for EWTN to claim that Wuerl removed Hoehl as if to be a responsible and caring zero tolerance bishop.  EWTN needs to go off the air as much as Wuerl needs to do.

The added irony to this is that Wuerl worked in Rome, as a cardinal's personal secretary for ten consecutive years.  So, if the Vatican is as evil as the media made it out to be in Wuerl's pursuit of the Cipolla Case, then Wuerl is equally as evil, with ten years of said evil under his proverbial belt.

For those who do not read well, let's repeat this thought:

     1)  Wuerl was made out to be a heroic champion, fighting an evil & wicked Vatican.

     2)  Wuerl worked in Rome, under John Cardinal Wright, for ten years.  Wuerl could not have seen the Vatican as so torturously evil as the 1990s press released on the Cipolla Case made it out to be ... or or or Wuerl was a ten year accomplice of Vatican corruption.  Let's continue.

Yes, the sun went down on Wuerl's stretch of power, dating
back to February 1988.  Churches were being closed left and right, by Wuerl.
Vocations decreased left and right during Wuerl's time of high power.
Dollars to sex abuse victims evaporated away,
and the Faith of Peter was replaced by the Sin of Cowardice.

For those unaware, Huff was Wuerl's "ping-pong cover-up."  Like a ping-pong ball, Huff was sent between Pittsburgh and Saint Louis. 

Christopher Dickey once wrote that Donald Wuerl was on record declaring zero tolerance for priests accused of sexual abuse 14 years before it became public policy.  Well, Wuerl did NOT observe, did NOT practice, and did NOT fulfill what he declared.

This is proven in the Wolk, Zula, and Pucci cover-up, as well as in the Edward "three-times-reported" Huff case, along with the cases involving Frs. Hoehl, Paone, Zirwas, Wellinger, & O'Malley.  

Add Torquato to the mix.  The cover-up of him continues, because his target of sexual aggression was over the age of 18.  In Wuerl's Pittsburgh diocese, if a person were over the age of 18, he was fair game, and a priest could wreak havoc on his life without Wuerl objecting, at all.

The Krawczyk Case: 7 years probation in death; the death of another.

After Wuerl was unofficially deemed the model of zero tolerance,  there was the 2003 arrest and arraignment of a Fr. Henry Krawczyk who was previously reported to Pittsburgh diocesan authorities for unbecoming conduct.  Donald Wuerl knew of the prior allegations against Father Krawczyk before that priest set the scenario for the sudden death of former Pitt football player, Billy Gaines.

If Wuerl were not negligent in that matter, chances are that the young Billy Gaines would not have died an alcohol-related death, twenty hours after having fallen from a Pittsburgh diocesan catwalk onto one of its church pews.  Plus, the parish wouldn't have been receiving the Playboy Station, during that time.

In addition, the August 2018 PA Grand Jury Report attributed a suicide to the same Fr. Krawczyk.  It involved the youngest brother of a family who, according to a memorandum, would indulge in alcohol with Krawczyk and whatever it was that got them high.  

The same youth was woke up after an alcohol binge and found Krawczyk performing an unnatural act upon him.  Of course, in my ancestors' Renaissance Italy, such priests literally got the death penalty for such conduct.  None the less, the suicide occurred in 2006, after Krawczyk was put into the criminal court system, only to receive probation.  None the less, being a molester priest can be quite deadly.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jO8NAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hnADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6128,3246225&dq=henry+krawczyk+minors+diocese+knew&hl=en

http://www.leagle.com/decision/2004927354FSupp2d573_1872

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2003_10_02_AP_WitnessPriest_Henry_Krawczyk_7.htm

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=20050223&id=ik9aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-CgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=423,17714232&hl=en

The thesis statement is this:

Wuerl was made out to be a deeply caring bishop who would risk his life for humanity.  Meanwhile, Wuerl was living in Marie-Antoinette-Luxury and had gotten away with the Torquato Retaliations that he de facto ratified.

Wuerl was made out to be deeply caring, but he completely ignored the plight of hundreds of million sweatshop workers throughout the world whose products flooded the American market and typical American home.

Wuerl's cover-up of Wolk, Zula, and Pucci was given a rewrite, where he was made out to be the wise overseer, instead of an aggravation to law enforcement personnel and the family stung by three Pittsburgh diocesan priests.

The Wellinger case was a persona non-grata of its own, and Wuerl's reinstatement of former high school headmaster John Hoehl was denied so much so that writer Ann Rodgers made it look as if Wuerl immediately read Hoehl the Riot Act and ran him out of town.

Curiously enough, however, the Huff indictment and conviction was mentioned in the papers during 2002, when the Wuerl-for-God campaign was working overtime.

If Wuerl really cared, he would have been sure that human life would not have been in jeopardy, as was the case in the first wave of the Torquato Retaliations.  Wuerl proved his unsuitability to rule,  when he would look the other way and perform dereliction of duty.

Concerning the realization that Donald Wuerl was not motivated by conscience, but by law enforcement authorities, take note of the following statement made by author and expert witness, Richard Sipe.  It was published in the March 11, 2002 edition of USA Today:

   "It is only the court system and the media that have forced the Church to take more reasonable action.  There is a very significant lack of moral leadership within the Church to face up to this problem, because they're afraid of what it will uncover of higher-ups in the Church."

It was the court system which compelled Wuerl to announce a zero tolerance policy.  It took the indictment of the Father Robert Wolk.  The 2002 media then forced Wuerl to remove several priests attached to credible sex abuse accusations whom Donald Wuerl had been keeping in ministry.

At the start of 2002,  Wuerl was incapable of claiming that his diocese was free of priests accused of molesting youth.  Only after the media exploded with report after report of sex abuse cover-ups did Wuerl finally remove those priests.  He removed the priests out of political pressure.

Wuerl's zero tolerance image was nothing more than unconscionable propaganda, especially in light of the fact that court briefs were filed against his diocese in 2002, at the US Supreme Court's Clerk of Court's Office.

Furthermore, Wuerl's former secretary was still in ministry during that year, showing Wuerl to not be the model of zero tolerance that he was made out to be.  In fact, he would soon assign his former secretary to a parish pastor's post, effective New Year's Day 2004.

The 21st Century praise given to Donald Wuerl by the media was an act of cowardice, as if telling the truth about a corrupt bishop would have resulted in the ultimate destruction of all mankind.  This era of mankind has been one in which the media deceived the public in a number of topics.  Concerning the topics, Donald Wuerl is merely one of many.  Concerning corrupt bishops, Wuerl is merely one of many.

A courtesy email that Richard Sipe sent me in 2009 surprised me, because he described the Donald Wuerl power play in the following way:

"It's the reformation all over again."

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For further reading on other topics, see:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=nfl&id=2287982

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/south/2005/02/23/Priest-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-Pitt-football-player/stories/200502230301

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
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/13/us/3-pennsylvania-priests-accused-of-molesting.html

Concerning the Late Father 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

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=77AaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fjAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5477,1539593&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bc00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=KSEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3062,4367236&hl=en

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2003-04-17/news/murdered-in-havana/
  
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