Randy Engel: Fr. Anthony Cipolla Part II -- Life and Death

The Sex Abuse Case Against Father Anthony J. Cipolla

Part II The Life and Death of a Pederast Priest

By Randy Engel

Introduction

Father Anthony Joseph Cipolla was born on August 29, 1943 in Rochester, PA, a borough of Beaver County.  He was the youngest of five children – Ann, Vincent, Genevra, Anita, his twin sister, and Anthony –  born to Ambrose and Albina (Natale) Cipolla.                                                           His first parish, where he received his First Holy Communion on June 17, 1954, was St. Titus Church in Aliquippa. It was a heavily mixed ethnic church with German-born, Italian- speaking Father Edward Zauner serving as its long-time pastor. Fr. Cipolla, a country boy, gave credit for his vocation to Fr.  Zauner and to his mother, who by every account was a devout Catholic and a kind, generous soul.

That same year, 1954, due to the expanding population in the area, Pittsburgh Bishop John Dearden established a new parish, Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, in nearby Aliquippa under Father Cornelius J. Finneran. A small chapel was built on the site in September 1954, but the church was not completed until 1987. It was here that the young Anthony Cipolla learned his catechism, went to confession and attended Mass. And it was here that the Mass of Christian Burial was said for the 73-year-old priest following a fatal auto accident on August 30, 2016.    

Gay Priest Exposes Himself on Florida Beach

Ah yes, the scandals are all behind us now that the bishops are fingerprinting lay volunteers and "empowering" children to fight off adult predators. But the gay problem in the church is obviously NOT over. Fr. Bernard Chojnacki, a parochial vicar from St. Charles Borromeo in Sarasota (Diocese of Venice, FL) was cruising the southern end of Caspersen Beach in Venice, a stretch well-known for gay hookups. Unfortunately for him, local police were carrying out a sting operation and when he grabbed a detective's genitals while exposing his own he was arrested for indecent exposure and battery. Read more here.

Now if you were a parent at St. Charles, which has a school, how would you feel? Would you want your sons anywhere near him? Not me! Homosexuals are attracted to young men manhood. Even if he restricts his perversion to "age appropriate" sodomy, he is a threat.

What's the diocese doing? Fr. Chojnacki has been put on "administrative leave" whatever that means and the diocesan spokesman calls the charges "unsettling." All I can say is, if he did it, and he certainly has a right to an unbiased investigation and trial, release him from the priesthood. "Gay" priest is an oxymoron. A man who is not wired like a man for whatever reason, cannot portray the manliest man in history. God created men and women. Jesus and Mary are the perfect role models for the meaning of male and female sexuality. Someone who is "gender confused" deserves our sympathy and respect as a child of God with a difficult cross, but he should NEVER, NEVER be a priest! And hiding in the rectory closet is not the answer.