Imean, really, dear reader, maybe I am a fool, but didn’t we have a clarification already from Cardinal Schonborn? I reported on this all the way back on May 1. If my math is correct, that was two hundred days ago. Have people not been reading this blog? Listening to Schonborn? Back in April, the wery month the pope released Amoris Laetitia, Cardinal Schonborn addressed “the question of this little footnote.” (That’s footnote 351, if I may refresh your memory,... Read more
This is not another post about Fr. Pavone. Saints forbid. But it was during a discussion of that topic on Facebook that someone made the claim that Catholics are “not allowed” to criticize priests. I am going to limit myself, therefore, to that specific claim. I do not, here, address the topic of whether criticism of priests is imprudent. Nor do I discuss the extent to which we must do so in charity, or privately, with respect for the office,... Read more
Fr. Frank Pavone can’t seem to keep his story straight. Here—and I have removed from it the image of the aborted baby—is the original post at Priests for Life’s Facebook page. (PFL has since removed said post, but I and others wisely retained a screenshot of it.) “Entrusted to us by a pathologist for burial” the post says. So let me understand. A pathologist gave Priests for Life the body of an aborted child, in the belief that Fr. Pavone... Read more
Mary Pezzulo posts the following observation from a reader. This is in reference to Fr. Frank Pavone’s pro-Trump video. (You know the one I mean, in which Fr. placed an aborted fetus on the altar of sacrifice and spoke on a political cause dear to his heart. Yes, that one.) A dead baby VERY SIMILAR to this one was put on public display in Charlotte before the 2012 Democratic National Convention. When asked what happened to the baby’s remains after... Read more
In a poorly-veiled swipe at this blog, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life (video here) angrily stated that he would “not take instruction” from those who say (which I did) that his cute little stunt of turning a fetus into a political prop for Donald Trump was a “sacrilege.” We laity need to learn our place. However, Fr. Pavone’s bishop, the Most Rev. Patrick Zurek, has issued a statement of his own on this matter, and I wonder whether... Read more
Our unity as Catholics is Christ alone. Read more
Abortion is an evil. Period. Abortionists murder. Society must outlaw it. End stop. But Fr. Frank Pavone does not get to use that fact in order to justify his own wrong actions. Let us review. Over the weekend, Fr. Pavone filmed a video in which speaks in front of the body of aborted child. He had put the child upon the altar of sacrifice—naked, unwrapped, burned. Then Fr. Pavone posted the video on his several Facebook pages as a political... Read more
As you might have read from Mary Pezzulo, Mark Shea, or Matthew Tyson, Fr. Frank Pavone put the remains of an aborted child on an altar, filmed a video, and posted a still shot at Priests for Life for the purpose, so he said, of defeating Hillary Clinton and electing Donald Trump. I am not going to link to the Facebook post; you can go find it if you are so inclined (graphic image warning). But that is what he... Read more
But Alt!” a reader asks. “Isn’t the just wage a private contract between employer and employee? Does the Church really say that it is the State’s job?” Well, you asked. Now, if a man does not pay his hire a just wage, he commits a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance. The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are “sins that cry to heaven”: the blood of Abel; the sin of the Sodomites; the cry of the people oppressed... Read more
It’s true. There are more than the mere five one again and again hears proclaimed from the rooftops: abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and same-sex marriage. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith lists more. I bet you did not know that. Let us read all that it says. When political activity comes up against moral principles that do not admit of exception, compromise or derogation [Those are strong words.] the Catholic commitment becomes more evident and... Read more
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