Posted on 12/18/2022 10:47:29 AM PST by Morgana
Father Frank Pavone, a well-known pro-life activist and national director of the organization Priests for Life, has been dismissed from the clerical state for “blasphemous communications on social media” and “persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop,” CNA has learned.
In a Dec. 13 letter to U.S. bishops obtained by CNA and confirmed by multiple sources as authentic, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, wrote that the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy issued the decision on Nov. 9, adding that there was “no possibility of appeal.”
“Father Pavone was given ample opportunity to defend himself in the canonical proceedings, and he was also given multiple opportunities to submit himself to the authority of his diocesan bishop,” explains a separate statement attached to Archbishop Pierre’s letter. “It was determined that Father Pavone had no reasonable justification for his actions.”
Pavone, however, told CNA Saturday that he had not been notified about the Vatican's judgment.
The communication from Archbishop Pierre does not specify the actions that led to Pavone’s dismissal or name the bishop he disobeyed.
The statement refers to Pavone as “Mr. Pavone” and calls him “a lay person,” underscoring the dramatic and immediate nature of the Vatican’s action.
“Since Priests for Life, Inc. is not a Catholic organization, Mr. Pavone's continuing role in it as a lay person would be entirely up to the leadership of that organization,” the statement says.
Pavone is still saying Masses, including one streamed online Saturday. The Priests for Life website states that Pavone “is a Catholic priest in good standing, and exercises his ministry in full communion with the Catholic Church.”
In an email to CNA on Saturday, Pavone said that he was not aware of the Vatican’s action.
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The American Catholic Church (sic) is now officially “pro-choice”.
i see a schism in the future of the church...
Sounds like Pelosi and Biden are more Catholic than Father Pavone.
not Catholic, no sure how it works, but the good Cahotlics needs to completely remove the faggots, communists and atheists from the leadership.
If only Father Frank Pavone would change his name to Father Martin Luther, he might get these notifications that he doesn’t receive. Just an idea.
Yet,the criminal lawbreaking illegals are helped by the Catholic Church who gets paid millions of dollars by the dem party to “help settle” the lawbreakers......
I remember when the Catholic Church was actually pro-life. THOSE DAYS ARE APPARENTLY RAPIDLY GOING.
This is beyond disgusting. Father Pavone is an amazing priest and pro-life spokesman. I’m so disgusted.
bfl....
It’s what the actual Communists have been doing since Gramerci and others, is to infiltrate the Church and corrupt it from within. Only the good Drag Queens For Kiddies will be lifted up and canonized and allowed to be Parrish Priests.
all we can do is NOT go to their churches and NOT donate money.....
nice system for them....
“Communists...infiltrate the Church and corrupt it from within”
And the media, education, entertainment, congress, banking, etc., etc....
And they are doing a bang-up job.
He shall carry this decision as a badge of honor upon his chest.
The Catholic Church is complicit in the horrors occurring.
Not one penny to the parish/diocese structure. Not one penny to "Catholic Charities". There is no shortage of ways to support actually Catholic charitable work, that the corrupt bishops can't touch.
“all we can do is NOT go to their churches and NOT donate money.....”
Been urging boycotting the collection plate for years, but sheep are sheep. They’ve be having orgies on the altar instead of Masses at this rate.
The man who pretends to be Pope is not. Ignore him.
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