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A-8 Pittsburgh F'ust-Gacttc: Monday, March 22, 1993 'locese Shape Up For Summer! restores Oct status in via I ico before going to India, he said. "If Wuerl is going to continue an arbitrary position unfounded either in fact or canon law. then we may have to accept other invitations for father to fulfill his profession, including one from Mother Teresa," Conte said. Asked whether Mother Teresa, who is based in Calcutta, India, was aware of Cipolla and the dispute surrounding him, Conte replied, "Yes, she is aware. "The sentiments expressed by the Signatura are the sentiments that Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity feel about him.

They recognize his calling and the fact that it has been a burden for him to live under the bishop's injudicious edict." A call to the Missionaries of Charity U.S. headquarters in New York City was answered by a sister who would not give her name or refer the call. "I don't know anything about it," she said of Cipolla's case. "We don't give out information to newspapers as a rule and we certainly don't give it out about other people." The diocese says it knows nothing of Cipolla's plans, and that the religious order would have to contact Wuerl before Cipolla could transfer his allegiance. "We have no knowledge of such an invitation and, as we previously indicated, we feel that we are obligated to make sure that they are aware of the present allegations that have been made against Father Cipolla," Lengwin said.

believe that Father Cipolla's faculties may be withdrawn again if and while the Signatura agrees to hear his case." Lengwin stressed that Wuerl had not "rejected" the Signature's decision, but was rightfully pressing the Vatican's Supreme Court to reopen the case. "We are petitioning the court to rehear this case based on what we believe were factual errors, Lengwin said. "I cannot indicate what we believe those inaccuracies were because I would be violating the Signature's rules to comment publicly on any particular aspect of its definitive judgment" Wuerl has not spoken to Cipolla, who now lives in Ohio, since the Vatican gave its verdict, Lengwin said. Conte, Cipolla's attorney, called Lengwin's latest statement "great news," but said Wuerl still fell short of what the Signature's decision required, namely a position at a parish or some other diocesan facility. "All the privileges that Father Cipolla had initially should be restored.

The Signatura makes it plain," Conte said. "We intend to press this until there is fully faithful compliance by the bishop." As it stands, Cipolla may go to work with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in India, Conte said. Cipolla, who is fluent in Spanish, would probably receive training through the order's mission in Mex PRIEST FROM PAGE A-1 "A clear understanding of this decision as it relates to canon law reveals that Father Cipolla's faculties should be restored. However, he will not be given a diocesan assignment until the issues surrounding the civil litigation are resolved. This action is in accord with our established policies and Cipolla has always been best known in the diocese for his independent work with a prayer group devoted to the late Italian mystic, Padre Pio.

Asked if Cipolla is now allowed to say Mass for that group in the Pittsburgh Diocese, Lengwin said diocesan officials were still working out the details of Cipolla's status. "I don't have the answer to that question yet," Lengwin said. Furthermore, Cipolla's restoration may only be temporary, Lengwin said. "I am not a canon lawyer, but I Mt -t 1 i 1 Mw AM if lllrn, I SgM- i I MXmmw March. The month when you've had it with winter and think summer will never arrive.

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He was in Pittsburgh for about six months, having left here about a year ago for Washington state, his mother said. Seth Floyd left Los Angeles in 1989 and originally came to Pittsburgh about two years ago. His mother denied that he was a member of the Los Angeles gang, the Crips, as reported by police. His mother said she blamed county jail officials for her son's death because he was in their custody when he died. "I'm not going to say he lived a perfect life, but if you're going to hold these men and take their lives into your custody, then you're going to have to be responsible for what happens to them." Bomb lolls Hindu near mosque site NEW DELHI, India (AP) A bomb exploded in a holy town where a disputed mosque is situated and killed a Hindu fundamentalist, a news agency reported yesterday.

Three persons were injured in the blast but they fled, Press Trust of India said. that they were arresting inmates Melvin Goodwine, 26, and Shawn Burton, 25, in Seth Floyd's death, Perper said. But Wecht said the case was listed as a suicide when the body was released to a local funeral home before being shipped to the funeral home in South Bend, where Floyd's grandmother and other family members live. Wecht said he contacted Rozin, chief forensic pathologist at the coroner's office, after he performed the second autopsy and told him to contact homicide detectives. Leatrice Floyd said she was not told there was anything suspicious about her son's death until Perper indicated that it might be investigated as a homicide when she came to Pittsburgh from South Bend for Wecht's autopsy.

Beside her suspicions because of the shoelaces and her son's weight, Floyd said she was skeptical because she had talked with her son two days before he died and he did not seem depressed or suicidal. That skepticism was further fueled when Floyd learned that her son had spoken with his girlfriend, Monica Ross, within an hour of his body being found. Seth Floyd had been in the county jail since early February, when he from jail officials in the week after her son's death. Floyd said she was first told by jail Warden Charles Kozakiewicz on March 9, the day of her son's an autopsy was "conclusive" that Seth had died "from his own hand." She said that no one in the county coroner's office would speak with her about the death. "I had to be a mother on her knees fighting back," she said in a telephone interview from her Los Angeles home.

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