Pittsburgh diocese sued after suicide of priest abuse accuser

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Pittsburgh diocese sued after suicide of priest abuse accuser
Posted 4m ago

By Joe Mandak, The Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — The estate of a man allegedly abused by a priest in the 1980s is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, alleging he committed suicide this year after the diocese stopped paying for his mental health treatments following two other suicide attempts.
Michael Unglo, 39, formerly of suburban Pittsburgh, committed suicide in May at a center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Associated Press.

He alleged he was molested in the early 1980s while an altar boy, by a priest who was convicted of molesting another boy and later resigned.

The diocese decided to stop paying for Unglo's treatment even though the diocese continued to pay for the priest's health insurance and paid the priest an unspecified monthly stipend, Alan Perer, attorney for Unglo's estate, said Thursday at a news conference.



Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-07-30-priest-abuse-suicide_N.htm

[SILVER__FOX52]

1. The catholic church is..........

AN ABOMINATION !!!

[AlbertCat]

3. The catholic church is..........

ancient Roman government. They just changed the names of the positions. It's time to negate their authority over anything.

[Plucketeer]

2. I simply CAN NOT

understand the delusions of folks who STILL cling to these fantasy worships when the evidence is SO FUCKING CLEAR that no "God" is associated with them! That is unless their god finds good in subjecting youngsters to sexual exploitation! The complicity goes ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP, no less!

But the Right has NO PROBLEM balancing their selfish agenda on the deluded who still cling to the idea of some sorta supreme being bullshit.

I have a cousin who's taught in Catholic schools for nearly 30 years. She just got shafted outta her job so the school principal could hand her position to someone HE favored. Then the party of NO tried their damdest to refuse her unemployment compensation two weeks ago. In spite of this, she's still quoting the bible and clinging to it's false hopes that God will intervene on her behalf. I love her, but she's nuts!

[MadMaddie]

8. I believe people like your cousin are so blinded by their

faith that when God (or the opportunity) appears with the needed help the individuals simply let it pass by. Why? Because they have made up their minds in which form the answer or help will come.
They have been brainwashed into believing that it has to happen a certain way before they can accept it. They also believe that there is no effort on their part to make it happen. It's going to be a miracle.

It really is sad to watch.

[Iowa]

4. Just curious... is anyone on DU still supporting the Catholic Church with donations?

If yes, how do you justify it?

[rug]

7. I'm torn between donating to the Church or to the DNC.

[Divernan]

5. Popes/Cardinals routinely had mistresses, children, grandchildren, etc.

I was educated all-Catholic through undergraduate years (Jesuit University) which included 8 credits in European history. Never heard one negative thing about the Catholic Church, including the Popes.

In the past couple of years I've taken art history classes (at the University of Pittsburgh) and learned that the 15th and 16th century popes and cardinals routinely had mistresses and children and granted the office of cardinals to their own children, grandchildren and/or relatives of their mistresses.

The one exception was the Dutch Pope, Hadrian VI, who, as my professor put it, quoting historian Will Durant,had the unique belief that he could be Pope and a Christian at the same time. The Romans (church heirarchy) loathed him, calling him a barbarian. His reign lasted only 18 months (he died suddenly, under unexplained circumstances) and the Romans rejoiced, saying someone should erect a statue to his doctor.


CARDINAL Ranuccio Farnese From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A portrait of a 12-year-old Ranuccio Farnese by Titian.

Ranuccio Farnese (August 11, 1530 – October 29, 1565) was an Italian prelate, who was Cardinal of Santa Lucia in Messina, Sicily from 1545 (AT AGE FIFTEEN! ! !) to his death in 1565.

Ranuccio Farnese was born in Valentano. As a 12-year-old, he was made prior of the Knights of Malta's important property San Giovanni dei Forlani in Venice. Son of Pier Luigi Farnese, the ILLEGITIMATE SON of Pope Paul III, Farnese was created Cardinal at the age of 15 by his GRANDFATHER THE POPE: he was nicknamed the cardinalino ("small cardinal") for his young age.

He was also administrator of the archdiocese of Naples, and was granted several bishoprics.
Farnese's brother, Ottavio Farnese, was Duke of Parma. He is entombed in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome.

POPE PAUL III
Early life and career
Alessandro Farnese as a cardinal, by Raphael, 1509-1511 (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples).

Born in Canino, Latium (then part of the Papal States), Alessandro Farnese was the oldest son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Signore di Montalto (1435–1487) and his wife Giovanna Caetani, a member of the Caetani family which had also produced Pope Boniface VIII. The Farnese family had prospered over the centuries but it was Alessandro’s ascendency to the papacy and his dedication to furthering family interests which saw the vastly significant increase in the family’s wealth and power.

In 1493 Pope Alexander VI appointed him Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano. Pope Alexander's MISTRESS, Giulia, was Farnese's sister; and he was sometimes mockingly referred to as the "Borgia brother-in-law." Under Pope Clement VII (1523–34) he became Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and dean of the College of Cardinals, and on the death of Clement VII in 1534, was elected as Pope Paul III.
* Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503) had a notably long affair with Vannozza dei Cattanei before his papacy, by whom he had his famous illegitimate children Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. A later mistress, Giulia Farnese, was the sister of Alessandro Farnese, who later became Pope Paul III. Alexander fathered a total of at least seven, and possibly as many as ten illegitimate children.<40> (

Suspected to have had male lovers during pontificate

* Pope Paul II (1464–1471) was alleged to have died of a heart attack while in a sexual act with a page.
* Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484) was alleged to have awarded gifts and benefices to court favorites in return for sexual favors. Giovanni Sclafenato was created a cardinal by Sixtus IV for "ingenuousness, loyalty,...and his other gifts of soul and body",<42> according to the papal epitaph on his tomb. Such claims were recorded by Stefano Infessura, in his Diarium urbis Romae.
* Pope Leo X (1513–1521) was alleged to have had a particular infatuation for Marc-Antonio Flaminio.
* Pope Julius III (1550–1555) was alleged to have had a long affair with Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte. The Venetian ambassador at that time reported that Innocenzo shared the pope's bedroom and bed. According to The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, he was "naturally indolent, he devoted himself to pleasurable pursuits with occasional bouts of more serious activity".

[No Elephants]

6. No conscience, except on behalf of the molester.