It took a long while, considering the stature of the man involved and the controversy surrounding him, to pass this small ordinance of great significance.
Forty-six years after Father Gerald Robinson stabbed Sister Margaret Ann Pahl 31 times with a letter opener, leaving wounds that prosecutors said formed an inverted cross, Toledo City Council voted 8-2 Tuesday to remove a street sign honoring the priest many say helped cover up what was once called Toledo’s most notorious murder.
For Lee Pahl, Sister Pahl’s nephew, the vote offered a measure of relief decades in the making…