Deep Thoughts: Rev. Mark Gruber sues for defamation

Saturday, September 04, 2010

Rev. Mark Gruber sues for defamation

I am frequently reminded about pastors who are falsely accused of sexual crimes. I know it happens, but to be honest, it does not happen very often. I try to be fair. When I learn of a false accusation, I report it. I also offer a chance for any pastor falsely accused to write a guest post on the subject of his (or her) choosing. So far there are no takers.

Rev. Mark Gruber was falsely accused of viewing homosexual pornography,I am not sure if he was arrested.

Even so, Father Gruber said in his complaint, school officials have never retracted their statements. He claims they gave him no due process. Instead, he said, they led the Diocese of Greensburg to revoke his right to function as a priest even after the state police cleared him of child pornography suspicions and reported that other people had access to his computer.

The school found him guilty of immoral conduct unbecoming a priest and forwarded his case to the Vatican. In addition, Saint Vincent administrators ordered him to submit to an involuntary admission to St. Luke Institute, a facility in Silver Spring, Md., "infamous for treating pedophile priests."

Read more: St. Vincent College priest-professor says school defamed him

I did not post on Rev. Mark Gruber, but my offer still stands. If he wants a guest post, he can have a guest post.

Fr. Mark Gruber has a website.

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Jerome · 767 weeks ago

Due to the complicated nature of such a case, it probably wouldn't make much sense for Fr. Gruber to comment publicly due to civil and ecclesiastical legalities. Not to mention, Fr. Gruber wouldn't even know how to use a computer enough to even find this blog.

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Mojoey 107p · 767 weeks ago

That's kind of funny. We tend to think of everybody as wired these days.

My offer is not so much to talk about his experience, but to talk about his passions or anything else for that matter. If you know him, please pass the offer on.

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Charis · 767 weeks ago

Yes, that is one of the many ironies of this affair. Father Mark would not only not know how to find this blog, but he would not even know how to find pornography on the internet, even if he would want to! And he definitely would not want to! He is a good and holy priest and this past year has been a suffering beyond anything he could have imagined for himself. Yet he has been very patient and has given his adversaries every opportunity to retract. He only sues out of a desperate need to restore his reputation and to stop these people from doing similar injustice to others in the future.

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DrMyEye · 767 weeks ago

I have known Mark Gruber for nearly 40 years, and when we were high school students he knew he was destined to be a priest and an educator.
Today I flew 500 miles and drove a rental car to see him at St. Vincent's College. He is an honorable man who was "sucker punched" by Touhy and his cabal of Evangelicals that were taking over that traditional Catholic institution. The students rose up to defend Father Mark. They blogged, they posted, and they questioned the authority of his detractors. I hope this lawsuit gains his reinstatement as well as a change in the policies of the college.

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