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Diocese cuts off Fr. Rodis pensions

October 23, 2007

Fr. Rodney RodisRICHMOND, Virginia The Catholic Diocese of Richmond has cut off the retirement and health-care benefits of Fr. Rodney Rodis who is accused of stealing of $515,431 from his parish in Virginia, according to Stephen S. Neill, spokesman for the diocese.

The diocese said Rodiss name no longer appears on the list of active and retired priests on the diocesan Web site. Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo, head of the Richmond Diocese, also prohibited Rodis from saying Mass or performing any other sacraments of the church.
It was learned that Rodis now stands accused of embezzling less than the $600,000 or up to one million dollars that was initially reported, according to the prosecution. But the federal charges against him highlight the continuing need for many diocese where priests can open checking accounts in a parishs name using only his own signature, prosecutors said.
The Diocese of Richmonds new draft document on parish finance councils can be found in its website.

As predicted, Virginia authorities have dropped their embezzlement charges against Fr. Rodis to make way for the feds, who arraigned Rodis recently of new charges of stealing half a million dollars from his two parishes, mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.

According to prosecutors, Fr. Rodis used his position as a priest to shuttle parishioner donations to the Philippinesand of course to his home, where he lived with a wife and children.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch said federal prosecutors are taking over the Rodis case in part because the federal court is better equipped to recover stolen money from other nations, authorities said.
Judge Richard L. Williams has signed a restraining order stopping Rodis and any entity holding assets for him from transferring any of Rodis money or property.

Rodis is ordered also to return to this country any of his assets located outside the United States, including the Republic of the Philippines. If he can show that the order restrains more of his assets than $515,231, the court will consider modifying the restraining order.

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3 Responses to “Diocese cuts off Fr. Rodis pensions”

  1. mars on October 26th, 2007 1:31 pm

    Kaya naman pala maraming cars and take note ha!!! may Beach Resort pa sa Cagayan. Yun pala! came from their brother Rodney Rodis na pari.

  2. jazz on October 26th, 2007 1:32 pm

    Kaya naman pala ung mga relatives nya here in the Philipines. Sky is the limit pag gumastos

  3. Maru C. Arellano on October 31st, 2007 2:09 am

    On Fr. Rodis: The love of money is the root of all evil. Very biblical but it is true. Mahiya naman siya sa Diyos, fisher of men pa naman. Nobody is too good or too bad to be a candidate for salvation. Very frustrating, who is better, an ordinary person doing good deeds or a Church administrator?

    Entering a church will not make a person a true Christian, like entering a garage will not make a person a car. Amen!!!

    Las Pinas, Philippines

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