Crystal Cathedral Member Wants $30 Billion from Catholic Church

MSNBC ^ | 6/1/12 | Roxana Kopetman

[marshmallow]

GARDEN GROVE -- A long-time member of the Crystal Cathedral, whose wife is buried at the church's cemetery, has filed a claim seeking $50,000 for two cemetery sites, $5.6 million from founding pastor Robert H. Schuller and $30 billion from the Catholic Church.

David E. Phillippe, of Victorville, argued that Schuller and the Cathedral's board of directors, "that acted at Schuller's bidding," mismanaged the ministry's money and caused the bankruptcy.

The sale of the bankrupt Cathedral to the Catholic Diocese of Orange has "permanently desecrated" the campus, Phillippe wrote in his claim, filed April 2 in federal bankruptcy court.

The transfer in February to the Catholic Church also "defamed, polluted, cursed with moral, ethical cultural, criminal, spiritual and religious indignity" the glass-towered church, its buildings and "the consecrated grounds" of the cemetery, which hold the ashes of his wife, DoraDene Phillippe, he wrote in the claim.

Phillippe is seeking to re-open the bankruptcy plan to allow an amended claim as a creditor.

The plan was confirmed last December and is "now a final, non-appealable order," Nanette Sanders, an attorney for dozens of creditors, wrote in a response filed this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

[Shimmer1]

I just bet that’s what he wants. It’s good to want, mister!

[john drake]

Mighty Christian of him. I guess he saved the big grab for last, $30 billion from the Catholic Church. Good luck, doofus.

[muir_redwoods]

What part of his education as a Christian taught him anything of this world is forever? Where in the temporal world is permanence to be found?

Welcome to Realville.

[Mr. Lucky]

Shortly, the Bankruptcy Court will want the claimant to become more familiar with the provisions of Bankruptcy Rule 9011.

My guess is that the Court will find an objective way to express its want.

[Kirkwood]

You can find Mr. Phillippe standing at the corner of Bigotry and Greed.

[samtheman]

People in hell want ice water.

[Brilliant]

Yeah. I would say that some judge will drop kick this case.

[Popman]

The transfer in February to the Catholic Church also "defamed, polluted, cursed with moral, ethical cultural, criminal, spiritual and religious indignity" the glass-towered church, its buildings and "the consecrated grounds" of the cemetery, which hold the ashes of his wife, DoraDene Phillippe, he wrote in the claim.

Dude, pick up your wife ashes up put them in a flower pot and place her on your mantle at home...

What an asshat...

[Venturer]

He should want in one hand and crap in the other and see which gets filled up.

[onedoug]

With what the courts in this country have become, he stands a fair chance of getting most of what he seeks.

[montag813]

It doesn’t cost $30 billion to move his wife’s grave, if he is so convinced that Catholics will “desecrate” it.

[Salvation]

I was thinking about the greed when I saw the headline.

If he is concerned about his wife’s remains, I believe I have heard about the moving of such. Hope I’m right here.

[JudgemAll]

Is Obama up to this? I smell a rat.

[JudgemAll]

So this guy says the Catholics could not retake the Church because it would be over someone else’s grave of another religion sitting there?

This sounds like some kind of Islamic excuse.

[markomalley]

Gotta give him an A+ for novelty, if nothing else. I think this is the first time I’ve ever heard of somebody using this method to attempt to extort money from the Church.

[HarleyD]

Phillippe argued in his claim that the Catholic Church is "a known and admitted perpetrator of criminal acts in Orange County and globally." He attached news accounts of sex abuse cases by suspected pedophile priests and documents ordering secrecy in molestation cases.

People who attend glass Cathedrals (at least use to) shouldn't throw stones.

I told my wife to just dump my ashes in the Magic Kingdom when no one is looking.

[CdMGuy]

The Federal Bankruptcy court is completely separate from the rest of the Federal court system. It has very specific rules of operation. He missed the deadline in making his claim which the bankruptcy court judge likely would have thrown out anyway.

The other creditors will want no part of his claim anyway as that simply would cut into their settlement amount. As to the Catholic Church, they simply are the purchaser awarded the property by the judge based upon having the highest offer. They had no part in the original sales claims made by Crystal Cathedral Ministries. I suspect the Diocese of Orange would willingly return his wife’s ashes at no charge.

[cloudmountain]

Crystal Cathedral Member Wants $30 Billion from Catholic Church

Thus we see a demonstration of why the crystal cathedral failed: unmitigated greed--one of the seven deadly ones from one of its more greedy members.

[Natural Law]

"David E. Phillippe, of Victorville,.....transfer in February to the Catholic Church also "defamed, polluted, cursed with moral, ethical cultural, criminal, spiritual and religious indignity" the glass-towered church, its buildings and "the consecrated grounds" of the cemetery, which hold the ashes of his wife, DoraDene Phillippe."

I wonder what his FReeper name is.