The Vatican has stripped high-profile Catholic leader and antiabortion activist Frank Pavone of the priesthood, spurring further discord within the antiabortion movement in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Pavone’s dismissal from the priesthood has added to the frustrations felt by many of the most fervent antiabortion advocates, with some questioning why church leadership would choose to punish someone so fiercely committed to what they see as a core Catholic value.“Father Frank Pavone has been nothing but honest, courageous and faithful to the ProLife cause from my perspective,” the NACL’s president, Jason Rapert, wrote in a message to The Post.
“To see the Vatican take this extreme step while there are priests who are in open defiance with the Church’s teachings breaks my heart,” she said, adding that “it sounds like a few leaders within the church have an ax to grind.” “Instead of supporting and encouraging the pro-life work of the Church, some of these men try to obstruct and hinder it, and abuse their authority to try to intimidate priests and laity who make ending abortion the top priority of our lives,” Pavone writes. “... Cancel culture is alive and well in the Catholic Church.”
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