Posted on 04/29/2004 11:56:23 AM PDT by heyheyhey
Last Friday Rev. Gerald Robinson, a Catholic priest of Toledo, OH was put in a county jail on $200k bond charged with a murder of a 72-year-old nun 24 years ago.
He has been an exemplary priest for 40 years. There are a lot of lies and nonsense reported about this case in the national and local media.
The only piece of "evidence" against Fr. Robinson is a letter opener knife seized from Fr. Robinson's desk in his hospital office after the murder in 1980. The knife had no traces of blood, but a "new technology" is going to be used prove that the knife was indeed the murder weapon because the exact shape of it is believed by the prosecution to have left a bloody print.
The lies in the national media include suggestions that Fr. Robinson was also involved in a child rape and satanic occultist practices. (Isn't that what Catholics, and priests especially, do, according to American media?)
I am convinced, after reading almost every published report, that Fr. Robinson had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of his coworker, child molestation or satanism. He is a good, faithful and quiet priest, and will finally be acquitted.
His bishop, in the meantime, has suspended his priestly faculties and refused to bail him out or cover the legal costs (a good shepherd's gotta cover his own behind, I guess).
Please, keep Fr. Robinson in your prayers and may justice prevail by the intercessions of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl - the murdered nun.
I keep posting all updates in the following thread,
Allegations renew nun's death case
Interestingly, they never say why they suspect the Father of doing this.
Sorry about that. Here is a working link,
I don't know the priest personally, but all trustworthy witness accounts (parishioners) present him as a good and faithful priest.
The satanic part of the story and the accusation of child rape have been basically debunked, the murder charge doesn't hold water because Fr. Robinson had no motive. The letter opener from his desk being the murder weapon sounds like an utter nonsense.
The way the case was originally presented to the public smells sulfur and glows red. It is the work of the gates of hell.
You touched the heart of the matter. He was a suspect… please, pay attention… because his office was near the place where the Sister was killed. Go figure.
I think the media got most US bishops scared witless with the scandals stuff in the past two years. Now many of them act out of fear.
One thing that is sure is that parishioners don't always really know their priests. That he is a priest still means something to me, and I will assume his innocence till proven otherwise, but I don't believe most prosecutors are working from the gates of Hell. Well, if there is good evidence on both sides it will make for an interesting story to follow then.
It's not what I said.
The media reports are FULL OF LIES and manipulations in this case. It's very obvious, that this is played out against the Catholic Church.
The report of "her body, covered by an altar cloth and surrounded by burning candles, found in a hospital chapel" is a lie. There were no candles used whatsoever and the body was found in a sacristy where she was killed.
At this moment Google News has 644 different links to this story. It's nationwide and even international. However, the way it is presented it smears the good name of the Catholic Church.
I was just curious to know what personal tie was behind your interest in it.
I knew I couldn't hide for too long - I am a Roman Catholic.
All I can say is.... "of course it does". A priest getting arrested is more of a story than a "guy" getting arrested. No surprise there.
Please, pay attention. This arrest served the "fair and balanced" media smuggle to the world a whole story about a "ritualistic satanic killing" (which never took place), Catholic priests feeding little girl human eyeball in a coffin full of cockroaches, penetrating her with a snake, killing kids and mutilating dogs (that's what a "victim" in her 40's claimed).
Are you still member of that church?
This story is not just an arrest of a priest - it is a vehicle of the devil.
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