Catholic Caucus: Priests for Life Good News -- Father Frank Pavone traveling again

Apparently, he and Bishop Zurek has come to agreement about his upcoming travels.

He has three pages of travels now scheduled, including a trip to Rome, Stand-Up-For-Religious-Freedom in San Francisco, among other travels.

Good News for Priests for Life.

I saw of hint of change with Father Frank's strong posting on LifeSiteNews.com article:

Fr. Pavone opposes Obama appearance at NY Catholic Charities dinner

The old Father Frank Pavone is rising up in this article. So maybe some of the problems of the past are behind Father Frank.

I am not sure of the Financial situation of PFL and Rachel's Vineyard.

This is the first time since last September that Father Frank Pavone has resumed a more normal travel schedule.

He and Bishop Zurek said that Father Frank's travels would have to be approved by the Bishop.

So it may be more like back to business as usual for Father Frank.

You wrote:

Still don’t get the outcome of the financial allegations.

The whole brouhaha between Bishop Zurek and Father Frank may the abandonment of property donated by the Diocese of Amarillo (adjoining the Diocesan offices) and instead pumping millions of dollars into the Gospel of Life ministries. This is speculation on my part, but I am a former employee of Priests for Life.

Even though Priests for Life transferred $2 million to Gospel of Life, Gospel of Life Ministries is still in trouble with the IRS, as far as I can tell. There was no news release saying this was resolved, to my knowledge.

The financial situation may not be resolved. In the current schedule, Father Frank is not going to tape any shows for the Gospel of Life ministry. He is going to tape for EWTN (EWTN owns rights to those shows).

One of the things Priests for Life did that may have been questionable was the transfer of $2 million from Priests for Life to Gospel of Life. The ability to tape their own shows would be why Father Frank wanted to save Gospel of Life Ministries.

Though Father Frank is scheduled to tape TV shows (on his schedule), there is nothing on that schedule for him to tape for Gospel of Life

Bishop Zurek may have been very upset that the property donated by the Diocese of Amarillo was abandoned by Priests for Life.

I think Priests for Life had the choice of trying to save Gospel of Life versus the committment to build the pro-life center in Amarillo.

If Priests for Life did abandon the property donated by the Diocese of Amarillo, that may have been the source of the brouhaha.

Gospel of Life on their website has 2009 as the last date for TV shows.

If you go to the link:

Gospel of Life: TV Shows Webpage

There is a gap between 2009 and the present time. There is a two year gap (2009 to 2011) to when the brouhaha and IRS problems arose with Gospel of Life.

At this point, Priests for Life may need a White Knight to save them. They have donors with DEEP POCKETS that might help.

Will they go deep into their pockets to help Priests for Life/

Thank you for the link for Gospel of Life.

What do you think the connection is, between the two year gap and the brouhaha with the IRS? Funding? The details are still wrapped in gauze. No one has been cited for nefarious financials, but all at once the place is broke?

What happened to the money I wonder? Just bad planning maybe, that didn’t turn out to match the once significant income?

Thank you for helping me pick through the scant clarity.

Please disregard all my questions in prior immediate reply to you. I failed to scroll down and see that you clarified things for me in your previous post to me. The IRS investigation may be is continuing. I have not heard. You are likely on to something on the dedication of the land and the beautiful rendering for the PFL headquarters in Amarillo.

The former Bishop Yanta was gravely disappointed after all the hoopla and the publicity parade and significant personalities who appeared for the ribbon cutting ceremony and then as soon as the confetti hit the ground, metaphorically speaking, everything died on the vine and the silence was deafening.

Bishop Zurek was not a part of that kick-off but the crash of the great dreams was heard far and wide, and must have to be a grave embarrassment to those who believed in PFL’s ability to deliver on its part, for a future there in Amarillo. It was never a secret that the Amarillo Diocese certainly could never have supported such a grand scheme. So far as I know the Diocese never pretended ability to lend more than an extraordinarily dedicated Catholic populace for Pro Life issues to the PFL cause.

Certainly the benefactors would have been the wounded ones, on the Amarillo project. Information, however, has been mostly assumptions as mine are here, so the silence of details on all that and the lack of clarity on the rest has caused problems to our understanding, and continues to do so.

Bishop Zurek must have arrived armed for bear, following the Yanta retirement, as the only one with the authority to tackle the issue, since Fr. Pavone and PFL remained assigned to his Diocese. Pavone is a fighter by nature, but accepted the yoke with great grace and endured the mis-steps of Bishop Zurek projecting his authority as he stumbles to bring this to a conclusion.

Still waiting for the “conclusion”. :)

I hoped to work at the new Amarillo location when I was working at Priests for Life. Amarillo is not far from where I was born in Kansas, by Western distance terms. I was born in Western Kansas, so Amarillo was about as far as Denver was from there.

Father Frank pulled the rug from out from under me when he stated some things that were going to be the policy about Amarillo. Sounds like he has pulled the rug from under Bishop Yanta and Bishop Zurek, as well.

And the PRO-LIFE COMMUNITY expects these Bishops to put up with this nonsense from Priests for Life.

Sounds like Bishop Zurek may have given Father Frank some time to think about what he has done as the steward of finances for PFL in this past year...

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