A Horrific Final Insult to the family's of those who commit Suicide and are of the Catholic Faith a very Dark Matter

Yes a classmate  I went to  St Basils Grade School with a couple years ahead of me and a successful businessman committed suicide  for reasons unknown to myself and the community. But how did we know he committed suicide when it was not mentioned in his obituary?

Because instead of having his burial mass thru St Basils Parrish where he attended all those years he was buried thru St Paul's Monastery in Pittsburgh's South side which was mentioned in his obit.  Why? and what would this have to do with suicide .






 

 


When your catholic or orthodox and you commit suicide it is seen as a mortal sin you are not allowed a traditional catholic mass at church you attend and are not allowed to be buried in a catholic cemetery this was the rule up until late 80's until views started to change with an understanding of mental illness. . Yes horrific as this sounds I just went thru this with a customer and friend who was Orthodox Christian and committed suicide after suffering years of horrific pain and his family had to get a letter from his personal physician stating the fact he was in such physical and emotional pain so that he could be buried with his parents at the orthodox cemetery after the local bishop took the letter into consideration and allowed it.



However with this easing of restrictions  over time with suicide which allows burial in a cemetery and some times a mass in home church many funerals are still conducted at St Paul's Monastery. 

While the  Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches may see this as a sin and as a way to discourage  suicides just who are they to judge the person who commits suicide ?Its gods job to judge not the churches . Often like in my friends case they are in such horrifying pain and emotional distress they are out of their own control and relief from what they are suffering is all they crave . Yes its insensitive of them for what they put their family's and friends thru but until you have walked in there shoes there is no understanding.

This is just one of many case where the church hurts those it supposedly trys to help. My great Grandfather and Great Grandmother are buried in separate cemetery because he was not catholic
just one of the many insults to human dignity faith brings with it.  .

Unsolved Murder of a Boy Scout seeks new leads in 1970 Cold Case Near Phiily $25,000 reward

I was only 8 years old when it happened and in Cub Scouts but never heard of this case in all my years of scouting even into my adult hood  till it came up on a cold case website the killing of a young boy scout near philly in 1970 who was camping with his troop. in Chester county when 11 yr old Terry Bowers was stabbed multiple times .


 While staying overnight on the grounds  at St Basil The Great Church  in in East Pikeland Twp.
and it appears new leads may have come out of the perversion files released by boy scout national council
The state police are offering a $25,000.00 reward for information on this cold case 

Pittsburghs First Woman Coal Miner and Mine Owner who would go missing to this day

Coal mining was a mans job back in the Pick and shovel days but that did not stop one enterprising woman Ricka Ott from becoming not only a coal miner but mine owner .
She operated a small depression drift  mine in a hill side on here family's farm in the Mt Oliver area then known as St Clair Twp.
Each Morning she would rise put on her work clothes and go into her small one person mine and take out coal he would sell to locals and this may well have been what lead to her disappearance  one day never to be seen again from what research I can find on the matter
It may be she got tired and wanted to start a new life but what more than likely happened she was done in by some miners or mine owners who did not appreciate her digging into there profits selling coal below market price. Still happens to this day all over the business world she may well be buried in one of the numerous sealed off coal mines under the south hills .

I talked to a lot of old coal miners from carrick and Mt Oliver known ever mentioned Miss Ott. however if you venture thru local grave yards the Ott name can be found

I found out about this thru the face book group"  south side then and now " thank you for the lead.
I will try and find out more info on this story and pass it on if I do.