prosecutor- priest's murder of nun classic textbook satanic cult killing

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Satanic aspects left out of trial; prosecutor says priest's murder of nun had cult hallmarks

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By DAVID YONKE
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR

The slaying of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was "a classic textbook satanic cult killing," according to Lucas County Assistant Prosecutor Dean Mandros, but he thought it would not be a wise strategy to pursue in the murder trial of Toledo priest Gerald Robinson.

In an interview in his office yesterday, the day after Robinson was convicted of murdering Sister Margaret Ann on Holy Saturday 26 years ago, Mr. Mandros said he "did not want to go in that direction" of trying to prove that the crime was a satanic slaying.

"There was a tremendous amount of evidence that would have allowed you to make that argument," he said. "We had professionals with expertise in the occult say, 'Yes, this is a classic textbook satanic cult killing' - more than any case they'd ever seen."

But prosecutors felt it was better to try the 68-year-old priest on a straight murder charge. That legal strategy proved successful for prosecutors Thursday morning when a Lucas County Common Pleas Court jury convicted Robinson of murder. Judge Thomas Osowik immediately sentenced the retired priest to 15 years to life in prison, with eligibility for parole in 10 1/2 years...



Diocese got inside data on slaying probe
Letter reported police kept quiet about priest

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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
James Ewinger
Plain Dealer Reporter

Toledo - Testimony in a priest's murder trial showed how the Toledo Catholic Diocese got inside information from police about their investigation and worked behind the scenes on the priest's behalf.

A senior detective testified Monday that a deputy police chief interceded in a way that made him livid, and that he found to be inappropriate.

A 1980 letter introduced by prosecutors contains references to the diocese seeking a lawyer for the priest. The Rev. Gerald Robinson is on trial now for murder in the 1980 stabbing death of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, a nun in the hospital chapel where both worked. He was not charged then but was the prime suspect.

Robinson was only indicted in 2004, after a second investigation and the discovery of new evidence. This unfolded against the backdrop of revelations that the Toledo diocese had tried to handle complaints of sexual abuse by priests outside legal channels, with help from Toledo police officers...



View of priests has changed since nun's murder in 1980

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5/13/2006, 8:26 a.m. ET
By JOHN SEEWER
The Associated Press

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Few people dared to say anything bad about priests in 1980 when Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was found stabbed to death in a hospital chapel. Even when the hospital's chaplain emerged as the only suspect, witnesses were reluctant to implicate the priest.

But the sex abuse scandal that has since swept through the Roman Catholic Church has changed the way people view clergy.

"Times are very different in many ways," Lucas County Prosecutor Julia Bates said after the Rev. Gerald Robinson was convicted last week of murdering the nun 26 years after her death.

Prosecutors reminded jurors of that in their final arguments, telling them it would have been difficult to convince a jury right after Sister Pahl's death that a priest was capable of murder...



Some urge prosecutor to dig deeper into case
Diocese faces claims of impeding Robinson investigation

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By ERICA BLAKE
BLADE STAFF WRITER

Lucas County Prosecutor Julia Bates declined to say yesterday whether the conviction of Gerald Robinson could lead to obstruction charges against other members of the Toledo Catholic Diocese in the slaying of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl.

Cold-case investigators probing the 26-year-old homicide have said they believe some local Catholic officials misled them in 2004 during their reopened investigation into the 71-year-old nun's death on April 5, 1980.

While the prosecutor would not discuss the matter, some in the community are calling on her office to delve deeper into the case.

"It would be a serious abrogation of Julia Bates' responsibility to turn away," said the Rev. Stephen Stanbery, a pastor at two Henry County parishes and a vocal critic of the diocese's handling of sex-abuse cases. "There is an impression that will turn the other way for fear of Catholic anger. That simply isn't right," he said...


Feds investigating Catholic Diocese financial officers

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Article Published Apr 12, 2006

When Richard Lennon was named the new bishop of Cleveland's Catholic Diocese last week, a Plain Dealer headline noted that "Lennon has always said yes when asked to do tough jobs." His new job may be his toughest yet.

Though Lennon, a Boston auxiliary bishop, was in the midst of that diocese's massive pedophile scandal, he'll face a new round of problems in Cleveland: the impending indictments of church financial officials.

The U.S. Attorney's Office is reportedly in the midst of an investigation that may involve significant improprieties. Church officials have been accused of creating off-the-book accounts -- some as large as $400,000 -- for their personal use. They also allegedly asked outside contractors to overbill the diocese, then redirect the excess payments to church officials and their designates.

Finally, there is speculation that certain contracts may have benefited the relatives of church leaders, and that "lady friends" of priests were supported by church money, though this could not be confirmed...

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1. Satanism is a Christian heresy,

and the classical variety requires an apostate priest. Are there more detail on this anywhere?

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Expert: Ritual took place in nun's slaying

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Tuesday, May 02, 2006
James Ewinger
Plain Dealer Reporter

Toledo -- A priest schooled in the occult testified that the 1980 slaying of a nun was filled with dark symbolism and signs that a ritual transpired.

And only "a nun, a priest or possibly a seminarian" would have the full knowledge of what all the signs meant...

The Rev. Jeffrey Grob was the prose cution's first witness Monday morning and the 23rd since the trial began last week. He has studied and written about exorcism, the occult and religious rituals.

Prosecutors have claimed that some sort of ritual occurred when the nun was slain 26 years ago, and reports of satanic cults have circulated through northwest Ohio, both in relationship to the case and independently of it...


Symbolism and ritual

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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

The Rev. Jeffrey Grob of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago testified Monday about symbolism, imagery and apparent ritual in the 1980 slaying of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. He advanced these observations during the trial of a priest, the Rev. Gerald Robinson:

An altar cloth was placed over the nun before she was stabbed nine times, the wounds forming an inverted cross.

A cross displayed upside down was the way the Romans executed St. Peter, but the image has been usurped by satanists. Grob called the image "an effrontery to God."

An altar cloth is blessed, either formally or by use in sacred rituals...