{"id":1400,"date":"2016-10-12T23:32:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T03:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2016-10-18T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T10:48:22","slug":"father-frank-pavone-responds-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/2016\/10\/father-frank-pavone-responds-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Frank Pavone Responds (Sort Of) (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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So, I shared my testimony<\/a> of being raped, and how it felt to have rape publicly minimized by \u201cpro-life\u201d people when I myself am also a devout Catholic against abortion and want it to stop, on Father Frank Pavone\u2019s public wall. It was, as anyone who read it can see, not a post about rape in the context of abortion but about how rape victims feel when someone who brags about \u201cgrabbing pussy\u201d is defended because abortion is thought to be \u201cworse\u201d than rape. I asked him to respond to rape victims to whose pain he was being so callous, adamantly supporting Trump.<\/p>\n

And, shockingly, he actually responded. Sort of.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cRape survivors\u2026 As if abortion helps them. Talk to those I\u201dve counseled who suffer more from the abortion than from the rape.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s it. That\u2019s all he said.<\/p>\n

And his followers presumed I was pro-abortion and had had an abortion and trolled me a bit, because they also didn\u2019t read what I\u2019d posted.<\/p>\n

And when I asked him to actually read the article I wrote, there was no response. And when my friends asked him to read my response, there was nothing. Crickets. He does not care to understand.<\/p>\n

This man claims to counsel rape victims, but he has demonstrated that he absolutely refuses to hear what they had to say. He has one narrative he plays over and over in his head, and that\u2019s the only narrative he\u2019s willing to hear. I wouldn\u2019t wish his counseling on any of my fellow rape victims, not for anything. What we need is for someone to hear and understand, and he\u2019s incapable of reading a testimony of less than a thousand words before presuming he knows what someone is talking about.<\/p>\n

I used to have respect for Father Pavone, as I mentioned at the beginning of this week. I admired him for some of his past work.<\/p>\n

I now\u00a0realize I was wrong.<\/p>\n

You can see the conversation here.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0And here are screen shots:<\/p>\n

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Update:\u00a0\u00a0Father Pavone has given a response of sorts, to which Michael responded here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Father Pavone then got online at night, having seemingly not noticed our\u00a0response and calling the original article \u201cinaccurate,\u201d to which Michael has responded here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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