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	Lunch with Joey and Linda Piscitelli and Lorraine Ferrick at Saul’s in Berkeley By Frank Douglas Voice from the Desert April 29, 2011 http://reform-network.net/?p=9954 On Wednesday (4.27.2011) Joey and Linda Piscitelli picked up Lorraine and me in front of our hotel in the People’s Republic of Berkeley and took us to lunch at Saul’s, a New York style Jewish deli. This was a natural choice because Joey is from Brooklyn, and I went to high school there. Joey is SNAP’s North California Director and a tireless truth-teller about the criminal pedophile priests and their corrupt bishop supervisors in the archdiocese of San Francisco and the diocese of Oakland. Joey’s name and extended quotes have appeared in numerous media reports of abuse of kids by priests. The most recent story is from the New York Times, is dated 4.23.2011, and was posted on this blog recently. For more than two hours, we talked about life in the Easy Bay Area, Joey’s rape at age 14 by Salesian Father Stephen Whalen, and Joey’s civil court victory over the archdiocese of San Francisco and the Salesian Order in his civil suit against these two criminal organizations. As a matter of policy they hide pedophile priests and a predator bishop, including Father Gregory Ingels, the canon lawyer for former San Francisco archbishop (now cardinal and the Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith William Levada) and retired San Francisco archbishop Quinn, from unsuspecting parents. (John Raphael Quinn served as the archbishop of San Francisco from 1977 to 1995. Archbishop Quinn also served as president of the United States Catholic Conference and National Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1977 to 1980.) We also talked about Joey’s severe PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) that was a result of the rape. On a lighter note we talked extensively about dogs including Ralphie, Joey and Linda’s silver toy poodle, and Pierre, Lorraine’s silver toy poodle. Joey ordered a turkey sandwich with no mayo, a potato knish, and a humus appetizer that we shared. Linda, a vegan, had a vegetarian dish. Lorraine and I both had an open face sardine sandwich on rye. I also had a potato knish and a celery soda. It was my first potato knish ever. That I, a native New Yorker, had never had a potato knish before amazed Joey. We talked about life in Martinez, California, the Catholic Church’s ongoing protection of predator priests and bishops, and dogs. At the end of the lunch Joey drove us back to our hotel and gave me a birthday present: a tee shirt that says on the front, “It’s a sin. Stop the Coverup,” and on the back “In memory of all the children who were abused by Catholic Clergy.” When Lorraine and I went out for a burger for dinner that evening, a Cal Berkeley student saw the shirt and said he liked it.
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