SNAP's Complaints Against Donald Wuerl, Even Before He Was Appointed Cardinal

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The symbolism is that the love of money distorts Catholicism.

Take note that ... ever so coincidentally ... as soon as the national director
of SNAP publicly held Donald Wuerl in contempt, SNAP was publicly
declared a fraud by the teeth-gritted Bill Donohue.   None the less, I did
find SNAP to be a "shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later" outfit.

For those unfamiliar, Donohue was the former Pittsburgh-area professor who
became the overly-paid director of the Catholic League, during Wuerl's tenure
in Pittsburgh.  If SNAP's national director, David Clohessy, would have public-
ly praised Wuerl, then he would have been given favorable regard from Bill
Donohue ... in my opinion.  Yet, the SNAP people do have a bit of a lynch
mob mentality ... of sorts.

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Donald Wuerl is the cardinal  who had bitter complaints about him pub-
lished by the directors of SNAP;  by the directors of the Survivor's Net-
work of those Abused by Priests.   This ultimately shows that, if Wuerl
truly cared about sex abuse victims, SNAP directors would have recog-
nized it and have acknowledged it.  They did NOT do so.   They did the
opposite, even to the point of calling for his removal from a seven mem-
ber committee that was formed shortly after the 2002 USCCB conference
in Dallas.  Wuerl is the ultimate fraud and hypocrite

USCCB, incidentally, stands for the United States Conference of Catho-
lic Bishops.   It never existed until after the Second Vatican Council.

http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_press_releases/2004_press_releases/111604_consequences_for_bishops.htm

Persons not even belonging to SNAP have repeatedly observed in Wuerl
the typical self-seeking manipulator who used the survivor's network for
contrived photo ops, deceptive news articles, and political gain.   People
unrelated to SNAP recognized in the present archbishop of Washington
what SNAP's directors recognized.   Thus, there is a concurrence, over
and over again.

Regional SNAP director, David Lorenz, related his initial experience
with Donald Wuerl.   David was expecting an ally in Wuerl.  However,
during their second meeting, Wuerl told David to not come back to him
until David became "sacramentally healed."   Did you catch it?   Wuerl
told the nearest SNAP director to not come back.   It was equivalent to
telling all of SNAP to go to Hell.

None the less, Wuerl deceptively made it look as if he really cared about the
SNAP members, by walking out into a protest they were conducting, letting
the press claim that Wuerl was in full solidarity.  Uhhhhm.  The SNAP mem-
bers were protesting against Wuerl.  The media didn't mention this.

Wuerl used media and SNAP to cast of fraudulent image of him.
The image was a caring leader that Donald Wuerl never was.

Pittsburgh native survivor Paul Dorsch mentioned how cold & unmoved
Wuerl was during a meeting Paul and his mom had in Wuerl's office.  In
addition, a woman known and respected in the Catholic world of Malachi
Martin students stated that it was Wuerl's nastiness that which she noticed
the most.

My experience was that of a Donald Wuerl who turned into a curt and
hateful snapping turtle, as soon as he discovered that I was not there
with a gift in praise for him.   He originally strolled to me with the look
of someone who was about to received great praise.   He was only going
to receive a petition for him to do what he should have already done.  It
included the founding of an anti-sweatshop apostolate in Pittsburgh; in
a region famous for defending worker's rights, advocating livable wages,
and establishing unions.

Incidentally, this is a Donald Wuerl who was sued multiple times while
he was the bishop of Pittsburgh.   Needless to say, if a bishop is sued as
many times as was Wuerl in Pittsburgh, it means that there is something
disturbingly wrong with the bishop in question.

The following constitutes SNAP's assessment of the Donald W. Wuerl
who manipulated a lot of contrived and deceptive press, making it look
as if, during any given election, he should run for God.

http://reform-network.net/?p=7362

http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_statements/2010_statements/052510_statement_by_david_lorenz_snap_director_of_maryland.htm

http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_statements/2011_statements/040511_group_blasts_bishop_for_schools_new_name.htm

http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_press_releases/2010_press_releases/042210_clergy_sex_abuse_victims_catholics_blast_archbishop.htm

In Donald Wuerl, the SNAP membership saw nothing more than a de-
ceptively slithering snake.   However, there were times when the SNAP
leadership disregarded their ill feelings toward Wuerl, employing a neu-
tral tone, in calling upon him to do a few things related to clergy abuse.
The red flag about imploring Wuerl to do the right thing was that, if he
truly cared about sex abuse victims, he would have done those things
long beforehand.  Therefore, SNAP directors were merely calling on
Wuerl to do the minimum.

According to his track record, the minimum is the most anyone will get
from Donald Wuerl, unless you are helping him to gain influence and
power by stealth and manipulation.

Wuerl is not the only modern cleric whom SNAP personnel found to
be deeply disturbing, in this era where bishop after bishop was caught
looking out for one or more selfish interests.  In fact, SNAP members
are not the only ones deeply disturbed by the fruits of the Vatican II
"reformed" church.   Even Germans left the church in droves, upon
learning of the election of Joseph Ratzinger to the Chair of Peter.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/12/germans-leaving-catholic-church_n_847715.html

If you think that everything in the Catholic Church is now hunky dory,
think again.   If you think that Donald Wuerl is a holy holy man, it's be-
cause you haven't encountered him on any personal basis.   Concerning
you who, in the Year 2002, heard Wuerl being called a "holy holy man"
on local Pittsburgh television, did it ever occur to you that possibly, just
possibly, he was called a holy man by a woman on his payroll?  Ever so
coincidentally, that woman looked exactly like one who conducted re-
treats at St. Paul's on the South Side of Pittsburgh.

You have to start thinking.   As far as go the "sovereign" Vatican, it re-
fused to comply with the U.N. treaty on child's safety for thirteen con-
secutive years.

The Donald Wuerl who was observed acting "girly" in days past recently
orchestrated ploys that made it look as if he and SNAP are good buddies.
He made it look as if he has solidarity with sex abuse survivors.  He made
it look as if he really cares.  This made it look as if Wuerl would fulfill all
of SNAP's needs and that everyone can now go home and not think of the
sex abuse scandal ever again.  Well, the truth is that SNAP members need
your help more now, being that Wuerl has been a deceptive antagonist to it.

In April of 2010, SNAP members were demonstrating outside of the DC
cathedral.   Wuerl walked out, making it look as if he were in solidarity
with SNAP.   Stop there.   Wuerl was the reason why SNAP members
were protesting, in the first place.   If Wuerl were doing what was right,
the demonstration would never have occurred.   The links to the bitter
complaints of SNAP against power grabbing Donald Wuerl are posted
above.

If Donald Wuerl had nothing to hide, do you think that he would have
spent the last nine years incessantly tooting his own horn?  Wuerl's horn
tooting was his diversion tactic.   In not caring about the three retaliation
victims of the Father James Torquato who spent years refusing to keep
his hands to himself, Wuerl showed that he had zero concern for clergy
abuse victims, relatives of clergy abuse victims, and advocates of clergy
abuse victims.  Wuerl showed that he only cared about his image.

There was 1} Wuerl's triple cover-up, 2} George Zirwas, 3} the Sotak retaliation against Sotak's credible accuser, 3} the Fr. Huff musical chairs game between St. Louis and Pittsburgh, 4} the hot potato game played with the John Hoehl whom Wuerl reinstated into ministry,  

5} Ernest Paone,  6} the Torquato retaliations, 7}  Wellinger,  8} William P O'Malley,  9} Fr Krawczyk & the sudden death of Billy Gaines, 10} Wuerl's criminal negligence & dereliction of duty in the sweat shop labor scandal, 11} his selling of church property to a secret society to which the church affixed excommunication, 12} and Wuerl using the Cipolla Case in a misrepresented fashion, in order to serve as a smoke screen that hid Wuerl's many cover-ups.

The Wicked Birthday Card from Torquato

Here is another piece of evidence, in the form of a card sent by Father
Torquato to his accuser during the years when he was committing re-
peated acts of physical sexual harassment upon his accuser, under the
guise of spiritual direction sessions.  It was not unheard of for certain
priests to claim that such physical contact was for the good of the lay-
man "being directed," even to the point of badgering the person in an
authoritarian tone of voice, as if the priest were speaking in the name
of the church's "new Vatican II directives."

The narration of this matter is located at:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

Postmarked Lavender Envelope Sent by Torquato

The home of James Torquato and Donald Wuerl at one time;
a mansion near the mansions of Pittsburgh's Fifth Avenue.
This is NOT the way Christ and the original apostles lived.

Shortly after Torquato was reported, he retaliated.  I was caught in the middle and
am the prime witness of the ruthlessness of the entire ruling class of the Diocese of
Pittsburgh at that time.  Well, a federal lawsuit was eventually filed against the dio-
cese, on account of Wuerl and Torquato, and ever so coincidentally, as soon as it
was filed, Wuerl sent Torquato to Rome, until the lawsuit was dismissed on juris-
dictional grounds.

Furthermore, after the lawsuit was filed, all harassment of me and of Torquato's
evidence-based accuser ended pronto.

Father James Torquato was ever-so-conveniently stationed in Rome during the
time when the lawsuit was in the court docket.  Wuerl eventually appointed Fr.
Torquato pastor of a Pittsburgh parish, in hypocritical contradiction to Wuerl's
fabricated & undeserved reputation of zero tolerance.  Torquato was given a lot
of tolerance by Wuerl.  The narration on this matter is located at:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

The last name of Torquato's accuser and his former street address was erased from
the Jpeg, for the sake of his family's privacy.  By the way, as of the Summer of
2015, I still have the Torquato evidence,  During the first wave of the Torquato
Retaliations, I had to make an added effort to protect the evidence.

Christmas Card from Torquato

Another card sent by Torquato to the individual who would become his
accuser in 1998.  It's a darkened photocopy of the card.  It's a body build-
er Santa without a shirt.  The narration on this subject is located at:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

Clicking on the photo will moderately enlarge it.

Torquato's Postcard from Rome, to his Eventual Accuser

Below is a postcard from Torquato while he was in Rome, sent to the individual
who ended up reporting him for graphic physical sexual harassment,  done under
the guise of spiritual direction sessions.  The last name of the accuser and the
name of the street where he once lived were deleted from the Jpeg.

The narration of this topic is located at:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

    Here it is in color --- Take note that Torquato stated (in the card) "next time
    come along."

Yet another card from Torquato to his eventual accuser

Yet another card sent by Father James Torquato to the individual who
would become his accuser in 1998.  This proves that he did know his
accuser, even though he made efforts to not advertise it as such.  The
narration on this matter is located at:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

Clicking on the photo will moderately enlarge it.

A card from Father Torquato to his eventual accuser

The colored photos are of a card sent from Father James Torquato to his
eventual accuser, showing that he did know the individual and did not
have an aloof regard toward him.  Those cards which fell into my pos-
session were sent to Torquato's prey during a time when Torquato was
not acknowledging to anyone that he personally knew the person.

Now, if the Torquato case were made known during the year when Wuerl
was being presented as a zero tolerance model, would you have attended
his "yellow Mustang" parade?   For those unfamiliar, Wuerl was made the
master of ceremony for a Saint Patrick's Day parade, where he rode in an
extremely "girly looking Mustang."  It was a great car for a lady; or even
a really big canary ... but, not for a bishop.  That sight could have been
filed in the "How-gay-thou-art" Dept.

The media made that parade look like a post war ticker tape parade.  But,
after five years of investigation, Wuerl turned out to be one big lie;  even
concerning the Cipolla case which rocketed Wuerl to fame.

The revelation of how much of a fraud the media reports on Wuerl were is at
this Wuerlgate site, in multiple articles, some of which have Jpeg evidence to
support the allegation made against Wuerl.

Photocopy evidence is far more powerful than what an army of Ann Rodgers
could ever write.  For those unaware, Ann Rodgers,  formerly known as Ann
Rodgers-Melnick, was a religion writer for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.  Her
comic book hero writings about Wuerl were found to have occasional false-
hoods about them.  Moreover, they were very cultic writings, as in Cult Hero
Worship.  She was too blatant in her role as propagandist.

That which was even more blatant in her appointed role of disingenuous
propagandist was the fact that Wuerl's successor, Bishop David Zubik,
hired the NON-Catholic Rodgers as the director of communications for
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, as if there were no Catholic
throughout American good enough to fill the post given to Protestant
Ann Rodgers.

The narration on the Torquato matter is located at:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

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Letter from Fr. Torquato to his eventual accuser

Below is a letter sent from Father James Torquato to the individual who
would become his evidence-based accuser with numerous pieces of evi-
dence to make himself the most credible of all accusers I've ever encount-
ered in my life.  Moreover, Torquato's accuser was scrupulous, in givng
the details thereof.  Actually, it took a lot of patience to write everything
with the meticulous exactitude that the accuser conveyed.  The accuser
was literally afraid of coming off as a liar.  He was brutally scrupulous,
in making sure that I took concise notes, especially when it came to the
description of Wuerl's Warwick Terrace mansion residence.

The letter below will give you an insight to the mindset of a retaliatory
abuser.  Torquato's prey was nothing more than a toy to him, and such
a thing is known as having zero respect for human life.  Such the death-
like world of the Cardinal Donald Wuerl who ordained Torquato.  Such
is the world of a Donald Wuerl who was repeatedly made out to be the
holiest man on Earth by his surrogates as much as was the diabolical
molester Marcial Maciel Degollado, by his propaganda machine.

For the narration on this matter, see:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

Letter sent to diocesan bldg at the start of the Torquato retaliations

This is a letter sent to a diocesan official who is now a bishop in Alaska,
stating that a letter which was sent to Torquato's accuser ever so coinci-
dentally never ended up in the hands of the accuser.  Up to this time, on-
ly a couple harassment occurred which amounted to warnings.  After
this letter was sent to the diocese, the first waves of retaliations ensued. 

The second wave occurred the following Summer, after an attempt was
made to file summary offense charges against Torquato and Wuerl at a
Pennsylvania magistrate's office, on account of the retaliations that Don-
ald Wuerl could have stopped but did not.

The last name of the accuser of Torquato and the name of the street where
he once lived were erased from the jpeg.   For the narration on this matter,
see:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

Added Notarized Testimony Sent to Wuerl, Concerning Torquato

This is the follow-up of the February 17th letter containing detailed alle-
gations of Fr James Torquato's conduct.  Keep in mind that harassment
and retaliatory conduct ensued after Torquato was reported.  The accus-
er's last name and the street on which he once lived were erased from
the jpegs below.

For more information on this matter, see:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

Signed & Notarized Testimony of Torquato's Accuser, Sent to Wuerl

Below is a letter sent to Wuerl
by Fr. James Torquato's accuser.
The reporting of Torquato was
followed by harassment.  Then
came retaliatory conduct and the
eventual filing of Case 01-10392
 at the clerk of courts office of the
U.S. Supreme Court, in a Petition
for a Writ of Certiorari and three
supplemental briefs.

The accuser's last name and the
street where he lived at the time
has been erased from the jpegs.
If the opportunity presents itself
in the future, a more clear copy
can be made from the originals.
However, I had the them sent
elsewhere, for safe keeping. 

For the narrative account of this matter, see:

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

Concerning Cardinal Wuerl's Ratification of the Torquato Retaliations

 © Patrick Anthony Pontillo

I've more than one comment to make about
having undergone the Torquato retaliations:

My actions during the Torquato retaliations
prove that I was more than willing to take
a bullet for you, being that whatever you're
willing to do for one person you're willing
to do for everyone else.  Wuerl's actions
during the same time span prove that he's
more than willing to put one in your head,
if he can gain an advantage in doing so.
After all, whatever you're willing to let
happen to someone under your watch,
you're willing let happen to everyone
else you can't use for selfish gain..

What he let happened to Torquato's accuser, to the uncle of the accuser, and
to me is what Wuerl is more than willing to let happen to you.   If it ever
comes to be your turn for it to happen,  you'll understand instantly.

Keep in mind that Donald Wuerl was elevated to the college of cardinals by
the crafty one   ---   the one who institutionalized cover-ups from a perch in
the Vatican, inconsiderate to the pain of others.   Concerning this, remember
that popes come and go.   Some were heart-touching, while others ones were
stately.   Some were diligent,  while others were negligent.   Some took up
arms,  while some embraced the way of St. Francis of Assisi.  Others brought
grief to the Catholic world.

Today, we have a emeritus (retired) successor of Peter who brought multiple
grief to others long before taking the Chair of Peter.  He elevated Wuerl, caus-
ing added grief to others in the church.

Those in contempt of the church's moral theological teachings are now called
the stewards of church teaching.  The malicious ones are regarded as the holy
ones.   It has become an Orwellian Church.

The great irony is that players at the Vatican claimed that the Collegial Conse-
cration of  Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was finally done in 1984.
The proper consecration, if ever done, would guarantee world peace.   No such
world peace has ensued at any time since 1984.  Therefore, the collegial conse-
cration, as requested by the Virgin Mary, was obviously never made.   In this
instance, Vatican prelates called war peace, in claiming that the state of the
world in the 21st Century is the final product of the consecration which it
claims to have made.  It is an Orwellian Church that we have today.

Today, we haves an Orwellian World in many facets.  The unnatural is now
called a natural civil right.  The campaign to make the greedy more wealthy
is said to be done for the sake of the poor.  A type of nuclear warhead, dur-
ing the Reagan Years, was called the Peace Maker.  Constricted free travel
in America, during the Cheney Hype Years, was said to be done, in order to
conserve the liberties which Americans lost during those years.    The list of
contradictions are not limited to these things.

Sincerely, 

Patrick Pontillo

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/08/wuerl-ratified-retaliations.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

http://www.donaldwuerl.com/2014/01/the-apartment-bldg-intrusion.html

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