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  • [Catholic Caucus] Fr. Pavone’s laicization came from Pope Francis himself: canon lawyer

    12/20/2025 2:19:53 PM PST · by ebb tide · 23 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | December 20, 2025 | Raymond Wolfe
    [Catholic Caucus] Fr. Pavone’s laicization came from Pope Francis himself: canon lawyer The shocking decision to laicize pro-life priest Father Frank Pavone without appeal could only have come from Pope Francis himself, according to a prominent canon lawyer.In an interview Sunday with Catholic News Agency (CNA), canonist Father Gerald Murray, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York and a regular contributor to EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo,” noted that the Pope alone can issue a decision “against which there is no possible appeal.”“Only the Pope, who enjoys ‘full and supreme power in the Church’ (canon 332, 1),...