Fr. Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life has been cancelled, removed from the priesthood. Via Lifesite News:
Given all the rhetoric we have heard during the first year of the so-called Synod on Synodality, it is clear that the “listening Church” is making a mockery of justice.
Here’s what we know so far: Catholic News Agency reports that a December 13 letter to all bishops in America, sent from the Pope’s representative in America – the Papal Nuncio Fr. Christophe Pierre – says that Fr. Pavone was laicized for “blasphemous communications on social media” and “persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop.”
Faithful Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas has a response to that:
“The blasphemy is that this holy priest is canceled while an evil president promotes the denial of truth & the murder of the unborn at every turn, Vatican officials promote immorality & denial of the deposit of faith & priests promote gender confusion devastating lives…evil,” he said on Twitter.
In a separate statement, the papal nuncio wrote that the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy – the head of the Vatican’s department dealing with priests – said that there was “no possibility of appeal” of the decision.
This, during a week in which Pope Francis is receiving criticism for his lenient behavior towards Slovenian priest-artist—and alleged sexual abuser—Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik. This, in the midst of never-ending scandals–financial, moral, and theological–involving Vatican-based prelates like suspected embezzler Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu and the egregious president of the once great Pontifical Academy for Life, Cardinal Vincenzo Paglia. This, while clerical heretics attempt to destroy the Catholic faith in Germany from within.
This, this is beyond belief.
So let's get this straight. You can be a German bishop promoting same-sex marriage, peddle for Grindr sex in the Vatican Gardens, contradict every aspect of the Church's teaching, be an episcopal member of the atheist Chinese Communist Party and get a pass. But dare to speak truth to power and champion the sanctity of life? Sorry, fella, services no longer required, SNLR.
I say the whole thinks reeks of wickedness and corruption and you might agree. But hold on, just what exactly were these "blasphemous communications on social media"? Serious question. In the meanwhile, I'm aghast if not surprised.
Out demons out,
LSP
25 comments:
I had read that it was disobedience but who really knows.
I really value people who have faith in a particular religion. Not something I have anymore. Hmm was going to say envy but that is a sin, darn. I grew up in a Catholic household and went to Catholic grade school and high school and none of the changes the Church has gone through in the past 60 years have been for the better. I still deeply believe in a Supreme Being but as far as the Catholic Church is concerned; to paraphrase President Reagan, I did not leave the Catholic Church, it left me.
Bravo, Ed. I'm another who was raised Catholic, but these days I'm best described as a "Roamin' Catholic", who humbly uses the term "Christian".
@LSP - The rot surely runs deep these days. Satan has infiltrated the Holy Church, and his minions are calling the shots now.
Are the lunatics running the asylum?
Spot on Ed. Brought up Catholic (you were identified as part of this or that parish)...but grew up in a Christian focused home. Only later, after turning 19 and having explored The Faith on my own, usually on a weekend backcountry backpack, did I realize the truth of man-made Doctrine versus Biblical tenet contained within Scripture. I am NO biblical scholar, but I know what it says; The Faith - ours individually - is about spirituality first, church" second, the latter being supportive of the first. Imago Dei...we are His handiwork. Our connection to Him comes first.
Here's my paraphrase: Satan Rules when good men do nothing, often shading The Truth to fit their internal secular wolf.
I left the RC after a priest came on to me in confession as a teenage altar boy.
Tried to return in Basic Training. Priest ridiculed me for forgetting my lines in the confessional.
Then I became a Christian a few years later.
My guess is his disobedience was to a Pope in name only, who seems to cheer every sin now days.
Fr. Pavlone is obedient to Christ and that is what he was fired for. Many chapters in the New Testament proclaim this sort of persecution.
You all be safe, stay warm and God bless.
Once again, my church left me, I didn't leave the church. And this is why.
In my eyes, he's still very much a priest. Most of the cardinals and bishops, and, of course, the Pope himself, are not priests.
If justice is served, when the CommiePope meets his leader (the horned one, not God his maker) the College of Cardinals would elect Father Pavlone as the next pope. One can dream, no?
Bureaucracy = The Beast. Compare and discuss.
Christ's Great Commission was "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations" and not "go to Rome and establish a bureaucracy" but I'm not a Bible scholar so maybe I missed that part.
Sadly I am not surprised. Pope Francis might go down in history as the the Pope that broke The Church.
And we who are attached to the Latin mass are the bad guys?
Way to go Cardinals for electing this guy.
His name is Fr Pavone, not Pavlone. Was there a joke intended? not like you to get a name wrong.
Just a typo, Julie. Sorry about that, corrected.
Bad me. I changed my spelling thinking I had it wrong..
One wonders if he's hitting too close to the truth for the Vatican...
Don't forget Pachamama as well LSP. Talk about stones and glass houses.
But President Xiden will show up a weekly Holy Mass and receive communion...no problem there!
Come Lord Jesus.
a good commentary here
https://www.crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-sad-case-of-frank-pavone
Ed, we must be faithful to the Mystical Body of Christ. I know it's not easy.
He sure has, drjim, go to Mass! Not kidding.
It's worse than that, WSF.
*Satan Rules when good men do nothing, often shading The Truth to fit their internal secular wolf.
Right on, Paul. This must change.
Ed, your story's representative. And congrats on your conversion.
We work it out, with the Apostle, in fear and trembling. I won't bang on.
Linda, your guess is a good one. And yes, it is written down.
Bless you.
Well that's exactly it, NFO.
Good call, DOS, I was going to mention the infernal Pachamama.
Didn't someone throw that idol in the Tiber?
Yes, but they (the 'Pope') got someone to fish it out!
That they/he did, Anon.
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