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Above: The priest between Anthony Cipolla & John Paul II was Catholic Catechism author, Fr. John Hardon. He was a vehement supporter of and defender of Anthony Cipolla. And yes, he was very much aware of the accusations against Cipolla. The DEFAMATORY ASININITY OF THE 2018 PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE, in claiming that Cipolla was hiding behind religion to molest kids. The first asininity exists in the fact that Cipolla was never arrested anywhere for molestation. The second asininity existed in the fact that Diane Thompson and Tim Bendig were proven liars ... especially when it came to that 1965 special forces near-death training "wreck & explosion" that Thompson claims to have occurred at the Spartanburg military base which closed-down, eighteen years prior, in 1947. The presence of THE AUTHOR John Hardon in Anthony Cipolla's life is evidence that Cipolla was NOT hiding behind religion. Religion, for Cipolla, was the centerpiece of his life. And I can doubly assure you that John Hardon was not a molester operating a child molestation ring. When Cipolla was a child in Beaver County PA, he used to conduct pretend masses, AND some of the neighborhood kids would actually show up for the pretend masses. In fact, an adult neighbor literally built for Anthony a pretend altar. Thus, this Anthony Cipolla was someone who did NOT hide behind religion, as was claimed in a 2018 defamatory publication issued by the newspaper which spending 15 years telling Pittsburgh that Donald Wuerl was the bishop of Zero Tolerance that he was not ... that he was not, according to a 2018 PA Grand Jury Report. And of course, it's NOT A COINCIDENCE that the Pittsburgh Post Gazette defamed Cipolla in the same year when Wuerl was revealed to be nothing but a liar and a cover-up artist. Cipolla was used in 2018 as a diversionary tactic to cover the fact that the Post Gazette lied about Donald Wuerl, for the benefit of Donald Wuerl, for years. Cipolla did NOT conceal knowledge of Bendig's existence, as a molester would, when trying to cover-up a long-term molestation Also remember that, when an admissions priest called Cipolla in 1987 and asked him IF Bendig should be accepted into the Pgh Diocesan Seminary, Cipolla literally said, "It wouldn't hurt." Now, if Cippola were molesting Bendig for five years at St Canice Parish in Knoxville ... while Cipolla was stationed 25 miles away, in New Brighton ... then Cipolla would have gone out of his way to make sure that Bendig would NOT be accepted by the local seminary. Cipolla would have gone out of his way to make Bendig as hidden and as invisible as possible. Cipolla would have made Bendig into a ghost. All in all, when you are having pretend masses as a child, followed by you attending seminary for a pontifical missionary religious order, and then you operate a prayer group dedicated to one of the most miraculous saints in modern church history ... then you are NOT hiding behind religion. Rather, you are placing religion front & center. In as much, in the relatively near future ... and not immediate future ... if you defamatory media entities out there insist on calling Cipolla a man who hid behind religion, in order to molest youth, then you will end up hiding behind defense attorneys ... for starters. As an added note, if you insist on trashing the Anthony Cipolla who was NEVER indicted, NEVER arrested, NEVER tried, and therefore NEVER convicted in any court of law of any kind of molestation charge, then you are going to have to also trash and defame Father John Hardon. I would call John Hardon the one who was Cipolla's greatest defender. End of Intro ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ A claim was made online, in 2021 or 2022 ... by you know whom ... that people in Ohio were now coming forth, accusing Anthony Cipolla of having molested them. She even mentioned that people in Ohio were filing lawsuits. Needless to say, that was yet another blatant lie of the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson. Now, she may have a different name than the one she had in 1978, but it's the same old Diane Thompson. In Ohio, Cipolla was in pain from neuropathy. He was a multiple heart surgery patient and had diabetes. He had reached his seventies. A person in that kind of medial condition is in no condition to molest anyone. Well, it has been four or five years since Diane Thompson's predictable & sophomoric accusation. In as much, no newspaper, no magazine, and no "priest watchdog website" ever reported any Ohio accusation against Cipolla. Not even the Pittsburgh Post Gazette did so. As of 2016, there has been NO MENTION of any Ohio accusation, in any court docket anywhere. This is just another instance which shows that Diane Thompson is nothing but a wall-to-wall liar.  And remember, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's subscriber numbers went down so significantly that it planned to close all publishing in May of 2026. It was then purchased by a certain charity organization. So, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette was no longer seen as the mentor of the Southwestern Pennsylvanian people.  Where the asininity of Randy Engel enters: Shortly before the defamatory 2018 article, there was Randy Engel's 2016 article. In it, Engel claimed that Cipolla had to have at least bordered on schizophrenia or severe psychosis. Well, in the process of her defamation, she de facto claimed that catechism author Fr. John Hardon was an equal low-life, also approaching psychosis or schizophrenia. This is due to his association with ... and his complete trust in ... Anthony Cipolla. In sequence, you must then condemn all of the Catholic Church teachings stated in John Hardon's book as psychotic and schizophrenic trash. Then, you must state that Catholicism, per se, is schizophrenic and psychotic trash. Unlike the condemners of Cipolla on the Internet, John Hardon had a relationship with Cipolla. He actually knew Cipolla's personality. In as much, Anthony Cipolla was in close contact with the higher echelon of society, and none of the people in that echelon ever told me that Cipolla acted like a schizophrenic or a psychotic. In fact, concerning Anthony Cipolla's character, I have heard, spoken in my presence, amidst eye contact directed straight at me that, "He was such a wonderful man." Nobody ever "personally" wrote to me or vocally said to me that Diane Thompson was such a wonderful woman. Plus, a son stating in a 2021 or 2022 open letter, "my sainted mom," does NOT count as an assessment of her, because [1] it's a prejudicial conflict of interest, [2] the writer didn't state any good works to cite that which would signify a sainted mother. And doxing me, while lying about me, is NOT sainted work. All that I know is that this Diane Thompson mocked me, defamed me, and doxed me, as well as having claimed that I was Anthony Cipolla in disguise operating a child's molestation ring. She was a malicious piece of vile trash who has no regard for any human life other than her children ... or step children, depending on the newspaper article you read. For the record, I actually am in construction, and I've worked on projects managed by entities ranging from the Army Corps of Engineers to a Sonic fast food establishment to various schools to the Dept of Energy to the City of Pittsburgh Engineers to HUD to the URA to neighborhood homes throughout the Chicago and Pittsburgh areas. I work for a company that was incorporated in 1969. So, if you elect to defame me, then you are defaming the company for whom I work, and the company, alone, will seek millions from you. I'll seek my own millions, at the same time. Of course, the asininity of Diane Thompson's 2015 accusation is that this site EXPOSES AND CONDEMNS CHILD MOLESTERS ... as well as the molesters of teenagers, and even those priests who sexually imposed themselves upon adults with the minds of children. Plus, there is nowhere on this site where you can order anything. This means that you sure as Hell can't order a child at this site. So, how in the Hell is this site a child sex ring operation? In as much, liars like Diane Thompson are NOT sainted mothers. All in all, Diane Thompson has been nothing but a liar, as is illustrated in numerous posts here. And Tim Bendig lied to me four times in a row. In fact, Anthony Cipolla's description of Tim Bendig was this: "He was a Huck Finn." Concerning that literary character, Huck Finn, was regarded as "an unreliable narrator" ... a person who presents things in a false light. And of course, if you state what Diane Thompson stated, and if you have money, then you and I are going to court, and I will NOT settle out of court. It will not be a mere matter of money. Court injunctions will be involved. In review of Cipolla Authors did not go out of their way to go to Rome with Diane Thompson. They did, with Anthony Cipolla. No Italian count ever represented Diane Thompson in any kind of court of law anywhere. A count helped Cipolla. And of course, no Chicago journalist told me that Diane Thompson was probably correct. Rather, a Chicago journalist said about Cipolla, "He's probably innocent" ... because no one molests in a vacuum, and Cipolla didn't have a long list of accusers. Even at that, his two accuser parties both asked the Diocese of Pittsburgh for money, followed by them receiving zero dollars from the diocese. Then came the accusations against Cipolla, during stages of financial desperation. The 2018 PA Grand Jury Inquest proved that Cipolla didn't have a long list of "covered-up molestation accusations," as Randy Engel FALSELY conjectured twelve years prior, in 2016. This is why Diane Thompson started a new lie, in claiming that all of Cipolla's molestations occurred in Ohio, outside of the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury jurisdiction. There basically was no one accusing of Cipolla in Pennsylvania, despite his eight parish assignments, except for two known liars whose lies are detailed here, at this site ... at this site which is NOT being operated by the dead Anthony Cipolla. Ironically so Ironically, the 2018 PA Grand Jury Inquest exonerated Cipolla, especially when Warren "Bud" Broz said that he only believed the damning accusations of Frank Labiaux, because Broz believed that no twelve year child would ever law to a police officer. And of course, this belief is NOT a legal standard that warrants an indictment. None the less, the bottom line is that Bud Broz did NOT mention that he had any evidence or any corroborating witnesses to prove Cipolla guilty, "beyond a reasonable doubt."  Moreover, the error in thinking that the Thompson clan sealed the coffin on Cipolla in 2018 is that grand jury testimony is NEVER cross-examined. There are no defense attorneys in grand jury inquests, thus there is no opportunity to impeach an accuser's testimony. And when you only judge a case one-sided testimony that has not been cross-examined, you have a Kangaroo Court. Now, the accusations on the part of Tucker Thompson are attached to blatant lies, especially concerning the allegation of a DNA test result that never was ... due to the fact that DNA testing took at an average of 52 days to produce in 1978, while the entire 1978 Cipolla case only lasted 34 days. However, the Frank Labiaux accusations are still a collective open-ended question which needs cross-examined. Yes, Frank Labiaux needs to be cross-examined. Until that happens, you have no seal on Cipolla's coffin. Rather, you have lie after lie after lie after lie told by Diane Thompson ... and one pivotal lie told by Frank Labiaux. That easily provable lie ... about the African Methodist Church vandalisms ... heavily degraded Labiaux's credibility. But, he still needs cross-examined as to his accusations of 1977 and/or 1978 against Cipolla. But, how is Labiaux going to consent to a cross-examination in the Court of Public Opinion? And who will do the cross-examining? None the less, famed author, John Hardon, thoroughly believed in Cipolla having had the character to not molest anyone. Hardon believed in Cipolla's innocence. In fact, Hardon wrote ... |
Perhaps that aging defamatory woman ... if she's still alive ... will claim that she misread an article which she thought mentioned Cipolla, furthermore claiming that she relayed the news mistakenly. Okay, fine. Whatever. None the less, in order to clear the record in the Court of Public Opinion:
The bottom line is that only two households accused Cipolla of molestation, and both households didn't accuse Cipolla until shortly after each one individually asked for financial assistance from Diocese of Pittsburgh affiliates, followed by both of them receiving Zero dollars and Zero cents from those Diocese of Pittsburgh affiliates.
1978
In 1978, a 32 year old Diane Thompson called the police on July 25th, in order to accuse Cipolla of molesting a son of hers. Of course, she did not see any molestation take place. More importantly, the July 25th O/I Report showed that there was no visible signs of molestation or even simple assault on Tucker Thompson.
None the less, July 25, 1978 was ever-so-coincidentally a time close to a rent payment due date. And I emphasize "ever-so-coincidentally," as well as allegedly.
None the less, on July 25th, she claimed that only Tucker was molested. Allegations from Frank Labiaux ... either a step son or a DNA-related son of hers ... came a few days later.
After this, ten years passed with no one accusing Cipolla of any sexual molestation. In fact, five years prior was a time when no one accused Cipolla of molestation, either. So, from May 1972 to July 1978, no accusations.
Then, from August 1978 to 1987 or 1988, no accusations. This is the case, after a hefty dose of grand jury inquisitioning transpired in the State of Pennsylvania, in 2018.
Now think:
The 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Inquest made it available for anyone who was molested by Anthony Cipolla to come forth and go on record. The Welcome Mat was out in full display. No one NEW came forth to accuse Cipolla of any wrongdoing.
Plus, the way in which Cipolla was accused of molesting that nine year old was not usually done by child molesters.
More importantly, secret archive records on Cipolla could have been produced by a Pennsylvania constable, via court order, which would have enumerated a number of sexual abuse accusations, if and only if the hush-hush records of molested children actually existed.
But, no list of hidden accusers was ever presented to the Grand Jury, making Randy Engel look like even more of a jackass, in her claim that Cipolla's parish assignment record is the record of a serial molester.
So, where are the records of these hushed children, and in which secret archive were they found, Randy? What specific subpoenas were presented by state constables, thereby ordering the surrender of secret Cipolla files, for the 2018 PA Grand Jury Inquest?
What court orders were presented, to grab hold of these archives which would have enumerated all of those sex abuse victims of Cipolla, IF he were a serial molester, as Randy Engel asserted?
Where did all of these molested children go, Randy? Perhaps they were invisible or living in a parallel universe ... or maybe they were living in the lair of witches that the McMartin school children claimed to have seen flying over the McMartin campus.
Or is it that Randy Engel was nothing more than a non-factual, gossipy hag who became a danger to society every time she sat in front of a keyboard? Well, her keyboard activity killed off Anthony Cipolla. So, you better keep your distance from her, if you know what's good for you.
1987
Then came Tim Bendig in 1987 and again in 1988. He had literally been expelled from the Pittsburgh diocese's seminary after only one semester of attendance. He then asked the Diocese of Pittsburgh for charity dollars and received zero.
Then, during a Padre Pio Prayer Group reception, Anthony Cipolla got everyone's attention and told the people there to stop sending Tim Bendig money ... to the seminary ... being that he didn't live there anymore.
Tim Bendig then asked a close follower of Cipolla via telephone, if "Father Cipolla" told the prayer group to stop sending him money. The nice lady whom I personally met said, "Yes, he did."
Tim instantly responded by saying, "He shouldn't have done that." Shortly thereafter came Bendig's accusation against Cipolla and nine other priests, as well as approximately a dozen seminarians. Wuerl dismissed the multiple accusations as not credible and closed the books on Bendig.
Those multiple accusations was the first instance of proving Bendig to have been nothing but a liar, being that Bendig made it sound as if he personally witnessed it. Concerning them, during Bendig's deposition, he was asked by my former neighbor John Conte, how did he come to be so sure of the homosexuality Bendig claimed to have existed in the Pittsburgh Seminary.
Bendig was asked if he personally witnessed any of it. Bendig's answer was that he heard all of it in the rumor mill ... from rumors ... from hearsay ... from gossip. Yet, when he spoke to a certain newspaper, Bendig acted as if he were there watching it happen. He was not and did not.
Quite frankly, my private citizen's personal opinion of public figure Tim Bendig ... which is protected under NY Times v Sullivan, 376 USC 254 (1964) ... is that Bendig LIED. He didn't hear all of those stories in any rumor mill. He made them up.
At the time, there was a grand total of one seminarian who kept going around the dorm rooms, looking for sex .... ALLEGEDLY. He was summarily dismissed, allegedly.
It then turned out that mention of 9 predator priests in Bendig's lawsuit referred to those who already were indicted or sued or at least suspended from ministry. That would have referred to 1] Wolk, 2] Zula, 3] Pucci, 4] Zirwas, 5] Hoehl, 6] Leo Burchianti, 7] maybe Bernard Costello in Charleroi, 8] maybe John Bauer, 9] maybe Fr Joseph Mueller.
February and then October 1988
As a reminder, Wuerl was in Seattle, as an auxiliary bishop, until February 1988. He started there in May of 1987. Bendig's accusations were still lingering after he was expelled from the Pittsburgh seminary. Then, after Wuerl settled-in, in 1988, the proverbial book was closed on Bendig.
Next came the Wolk, Zula, and Pucci arrests in October of 1988. Bendig saw that this was a great opportunity to publicize his accusations, and maybe score on some lawsuit money. Then, on the 25th anniversary of the JFK assassination, a newspaper reported on Bendig's accusations against Cipolla.
More importantly, no one in Ohio ... and no one who used to live in Ohio ... ever accused Cipolla of molestation. In fact, after 1988, no one from anywhere accused Cipolla of any kind of sexual abuse.
Between 1978 and 1988, no one accused Cipolla of molestation, either. From 1972 to 1978, no one accused Cipolla of any wrongdoing, as well. And of course, from 1989 to 2026, no one ever accused Cipolla of any type of sexual abuse.
There were neither past molestation accusations nor present ones against Cipolla, concerning the entire state of Ohio. Diane Thompson is merely a malicious liar, thinking that you are stupid enough to believe whatever she writes and then posts.
I've a question about the Bendig Lawsuit Deposition of Frank Labiaux, if it does exist:
Now, concerning Frank Labiaux and an alleged deposition taken a couple weeks after Attorney Douglas Yauger received communications from Diane Thompson's clan, does anyone out there have a copy of an alleged cross-examination of Frank Labiaux? ... if such a thing actually exists?
You are more than welcomed to act like a lady or a gentleman and send me a text or an email or even give me a phone call. In fact, you can find my cell phone number in each of the three posts about the renovation of the St. Wenceslaus Church structure, located around the early August 2026 posts.
I need to see that cross-examination or I need to see someone out there versed in trial law to give a cross-examination to Frank Labiaux.
And concerning you arrogantly assured ones out there, there is one huge difference between me and you. I talked to Cipolla time after time after time, and I even saw him in person a couple of times.
In fact, even before Tim Bendig accused Cipolla, I was in a car with Cipolla, one night ... alone ... and he didn't try a damn thing on me. I was also alone with Cipolla, in daylight hours, at his McGuire Home room/office, and he didn't try to do a damned thing to me.
Zero physical contact. Zero seductive talk. No talk about sex. No talk about girls. No talk about "trying new experiences." Etc. It was all "church talk."
Moreover, I even offered to be a character witness for Cipolla in the Tim Bendig lawsuit. But, there were more than enough character witnesses lined-up already.
Plus, I held and viewed the documentation. You did not. All in all, I'm an American construction worker who has no investment in any Padre Pio Prayer Group enterprise ... or in any Cipolla-related project ... or in any project of any person once involved with Cipolla.
That white Mercedes I often drive came solely from construction profit. That tan Ford 250 that I also drive also came from construction profits.
I did NOT get paid as much as a dollar to write what I did on any subject, including the Cipolla Subject. In all that time, I received a grand total one $100 donation in 2014, from someone grateful that I revealed Wuerl as the evil entity he is, instead of claiming him to be the saint he as sure as Hell is not. So, I have no conflict of interest in the Cipolla Case.
Diane Thompson and her sons definitely had a conflict of interest. In fact, they had 250,000 conflicts of interest. Bendig had nearly the same amount of conflicts of interest, too. But, he quickly squandered his conflicts of interest to the Levitske Bros, for the Two Step Lounge.
And and and the Levitske Bros committed no tort offense or criminal offense in selling Bendig property that came from the money given to Bendig by Wuerl. As soon as the settlement was signed and transacted, that money became Bendig's unshared financial holdings.
The Levitske Bros were not aware of any fraud in Bendig acquiring the money, and Bendig was NOT under a contractual obligation to spend the money on high-tech psychiatric treatment as he told the media he was going to do.
The point in mentioning the Two Step Lounge was to show that Bendig was a liar. Very simply, being that Bendig lied about using the settlement money on psychiatric treatment, it's reasonable to assume that Bendig lied about everything else.
So, let's do a quick review for those who deny reality
Two parties received a $200,000+ settlement after damning Cipolla with storylines already proven to have been false. Cipolla was never put on trial, and he was never in handcuffs ... and there was no DNA evidence at all, in his 1978 case.
Most importantly, Detective Broz failed to produce any physical evidence or corroborating witnesses to make his intended ... yet unrealized ... prosecution of Cipolla convincing to a jury, "beyond a reasonable doubt." And he did NOT reach the legal standard to warrant the indictment of Cipolla.
Quite frankly, he failed. So, he blamed his failure on "the suits." The "suits" were four men in the hallway at the cancelled August 28th, 1978 Probable Cause Hearing. Broz said that he saw them, he knew that "the fix was in." HOWEVER, fix refers to dishonest rigging, and Broz FAILED to produce any physical evidence or corroborating witnesses that justified a judge "to issue process" on Cipolla, and put him in handcuffs.
As my private citizen's personal opinion of public figure Warren Broz, as is protected under NY Times v Sullivan (1964), I think that Broz was going through burn-out and didn't want to play sleuth anymore.
He was drained of energy or drained of inspiration. After all, he became a member of an organization which reaches out to those "first responders" who are either going through burn-out or mental trauma from experiences seen on-the-job.
And and and, he did NOT report on any attempt to confirm or refute a Cipolla assertion which could have been answered by the people at the Michigan province of the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions. All that Broz had to do was ask the friars at that province if it were true or false that Cipolla occasionally collected medical supplies for the missions and brought some supplies with him, in his yearly trips.
Then again, maybe Broz did ask and didn't get the answer he wanted, resulting in him remaining silent about it, so as to not make Cipolla look good in the eyes of the public.
At this point, the bottom line is that the PA Grand Jury discovered that there wasn't any archive file which mentioned any mass sex abuse accusations against Cipolla, and and and there was no one in the history of Ohio who ever accused Cipolla of molestation.
The stupidest thing a financially strapped Cipolla ever did
Now, Cipolla did do something really stupid after Wuerl defrocked him and refused to give him the financial assistance which Wuerl gave to Frs. Wolk, Zula, Pucci, Burchianti, Zirwas, etc, etc, etc. Cipolla tried to get a job in New Jersey from some type of home schooling organization as some kind of teacher.
His life experience was limited to youth groups and prayer groups. And he knew that he couldn't survive the cost of living on a minimum waged, no-experience-necessary job.
He never tried to do this kind of thing again. If he kept trying to get a job around youth, then you could sound the alarm and have accused him of being a pedophile on the hunt, even to the point of reporting him to the police. In fact, if Cipolla would have kept going around, looking for jobs that would have him in close contact with youth, then I would have reported him to the police. But, Cipolla did NOT do so.
I never mentioned what he did in the last years of his life, for financial supplementation
Cipolla did get a monthly social security check. But, that wasn't enough. So, Cipolla starting living off of the CASH VALUE OF HIS LIFE INSURANCE POLICY.
In addition, Cipolla got an affluent woman who believed in him to pay his monthly rent for him. And concerning those people who really believed in Cipolla, they were actually believing in the miraculous Padre Pio whom Cipolla represented and even spiritually manifested in a real though invisible way.
They saw Cipolla as the conduit ... the relay system ... the representative of Padre Pio. Admiration of Cipolla was all based on appreciation of Padre Pio.
