Has Father Pavone Kept Mummified Human Remains For More Than A Decade?

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:14 pm By Mary Pezzulo

Alert reader and commentator Patricia Larson Guilfoyle recently posted the following, on my post about Father Pavone’s desecration of an infant and an altar earlier today: 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 the “event,” which featured the baby in an open casket on the sidewalk outside a Catholic church (which was closed at the time), Father Pavone would... Read more

An Open Letter on The Ecclesiastical Treatment of Human Remains

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:19 pm By Guest Contributor

My Fellow Priest: If you recover the body of a murder victim, please proceed as all priests are taught and obligated to proceed: (1) the body when brought into the church for a Funeral Mass is to be covered with a pall and placed near or before the altar, not upon it, and not naked; (2) celebrate obediently the Funeral Mass according to the rubrics of the Church; (3) offer up obediently the prayers that are to follow the... Read more

The Implications of Fr. Pavone’s Mad Act

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:19 pm By Michael Pezzulo

Update: For continuing reporting on this incedent, and on Pavone and Priests for Life’s efforts to dig themselves deeper and deeper into their shame and counter-witness, I encourage you to consult the blog Proper Nomenclature by Keith Michael Estrada. Of particular interest is this post “Breaking: Fr. Frank Pavone defends sacrilege: “The issue is not how I’m treating a baby.” ” published sometime Monday after I originally completed the below. Keith is always a reliable and responsible source for reporting... Read more

Father Pavone Treats Naked Human Remains As Photo Prop

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:20 pm By Mary Pezzulo

I seriously, seriously did not want to write about this man again. Let me ask a hypothetical question. What if a priest tried to preach against rape, by parading a naked rape survivor into the church, still bleeding from her injury, and having her sit on the altar for a photo? Okay, what if a priest was preaching against nuclear war, so he found the corpse of a person who died from radiation poisoning and slung them naked onto the... Read more

It’s Just Clear Blood, I Promise

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:21 pm By Mary Pezzulo

There was no need for Father Vasyl to apologize, let alone apologize twice. The whole thing was entirely my fault. I usually go to the eleven AM Divine Liturgy at the Byzantine Catholic Church, and this time I was at the vigil. And he hadn’t seen me when he came into the church with the thurible– I’d arrived at church early, decided to go for a walk, taken too long and ended up running back in in the middle of the... Read more

One Last Election Update For My Readers

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:22 pm By Mary Pezzulo

I have one last message for my readers. It is after midnight. It is officially November seventh. You know what that means? That’s right. One day more. One more day until election day and then this rancid, festering gangrenous hangnail of an election season is over forever. We can do this. We can make it. In twenty-four hours the deed will be done, though we’ll probably still be hunched over our laptops gulping cheap wine from jumbo-sized mason jars and waiting for the... Read more

“I Just Wanted To Show A Sign”

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:22 pm By Mary Pezzulo

Take a look at this video, from the Guardian, interviewing Austin Crites. Austin Crites is the Republican who was peacefully holding an anti-Trump sign at a Trump rally last night when he brutally beaten; one of his assailants screamed “Gun,” which is why Donald Trump was rushed offstage and the news originally reported an assassination attempt at that rally. “There were people grabbing at my neck so hard, it could have strangled me to death. Other people were grabbing... Read more

Thanks, Obama

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:24 pm By Mary Pezzulo

No, seriously, thanks, Obama. Everyone ought to react to a heckler this way: No matter how much you disagree with someone, you ought to respect people and defend their rights, including their right to free speech. You ought to look for anything you can respect about them and do so. Thanks, Obama. Really, thanks. (image via Pixabay) Read more

Jerusalem to Jericho

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:25 pm By Mary Pezzulo

Last night at the anticipation Divine Liturgy, we heard the gospel of the Good Samaritan. A man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. We all do, at some point. Jerusalem is the City of God, the city with the Temple Mount, the city of compact unity set on the hill for all the world to see. All the tribes of Israel go up to Jerusalem. All the nations of the earth will make their pilgrimage there, and all will... Read more

Final Notes Before You Vote

Last updated on: November 11, 2016 at 8:25 pm By Mary Pezzulo

Please read this statement from the most reverend Bishop Robert McElroy: Catholic teaching points to the importance of several major issues in this presidential election year: abortion, poverty and economic justice, the environment, euthanasia, immigration, religious liberty, and solidarity within society. This final issue of solidarity has a particular importance at this moment because the very democratic impulse which is the foundation for our national unity is being eroded by partisan venom and personal attack. In this environment, it is... Read more