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Sin, Shame, and Secrets : The Murder of a Nun, the Conviction of a Priest, and Cover-up in the Catholic Church by David Yonke (2008, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-100826429203

ISBN-139780826429209

eBay Product ID (ePID)61482898

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Book TitleSin, Shame, and Secrets : The Murder of a Nun, the Conviction of a Priest, and Cover-up in the Catholic Church

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMurder / General, Clergy, Religion, Politics & State, Criminology

Publication Year2008

GenreReligion, True Crime, Social Science

AuthorDavid Yonke

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight11.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Yonke paints a chilling picture of a brutal crime - and the unholy alliance between the Toledo police department and Catholic church. It's disturbing enough that a priest would be accused of killing a nun. What's more troubling is that police authorities would abet the diocese in protecting the killer - and other priests accused of sexually abusing children. Yonke has done a remarkable job piecing together the details of the case. An explosive piece of investigative journalism." - Mitch Weiss, 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative journalism, "Yonke's detailed account is a chilling example of a religious man gone bad." Reviewed in Publishing News, 2007, "This is a murder case for the ages: the ritual slaying of a nun by a priest in a chapel. But beyond the crime, David Yonke deftly shows how an American Catholic diocese kept one of its own from being charged for more than a quarter century. This work is a primer on the power of the church in concealing its worst secrets." -- Michael Sallah, Investigations Editor, The Miami Herald, recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, "Very rarely does a single incident grip the public conscience. The brutal and sacrilegious murder of a true innocent, Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, does just that. Carefully detailing her murder, Yonke describes not only the search for a killer, but the struggle for all of us including both the Toledo police and the Catholic church, to accept that evil exists everywhere around us, even within the house of God." â€�Nancy Grace, Court TV and CNN Headline News Anchor and former prosecutor for the Atlanta-Fulton County District Attorney's Office

Dewey Decimal364.1523092

SynopsisDavid Yonke's new book Sin, Shame, & Secrets is the shocking but true story of the 1980s ritual murder of a Roman Catholic nun that went unsolved for more than two decades until cold case investigators arrested Father Gerald Robinson, a 66-year-old Roman Catholic priest, at his home next door to the Toledo police station on April 23, 2004. Just over two years later, on May 11, 2006, a jury convicted Father Robinson of murder and the priest was sentenced to life in prison, a term he is now serving at a maximum-security prison in southern Ohio. An award-winning journalist and the religion editor of The Toledo Blade, David Yonke covered the trial from gavel to gavel. Sin, Shame, & Secrets chronicles the unique and compelling case that involves startling evidence of a satanic murder, an examination of the cover-up by the Toledo Catholic Diocese, and an inside look at how cold-case investigators and the prosecutor's office put together an iron-clad case that resulted in a conviction after just 6 hours of jury deliberations. >, David Yonke, religion editor for The Toledo Blade, takes an examined look into instances of violent and sexual crime and cover-up in the Catholic Church, questions the Church's inside structure of law and order, reports on the apparent past lawlessness of many of its officials, and speculates on future trends of how the Church will deal with scandal and accountability.>

LC Classification NumberHV8079.H6