After a year of exile, anti-abortion priest Frank Pavone is back
Anti-abortion priest back with eyes set on Obama, bishops
The longtime head of the anti-abortion group Priests for Life, Pavone had been confined to the Diocese of Amarillo by his bishop, Patrick J. Zurek, who sent a letter to every other U.S. bishop declaring that he had so many concerns about the group’s $10 million budget that Pavone shouldn’t be trusted with donors’ money.
Today, however, everything has changed. Pavone is a free man, thoroughly enjoying a measure of redemption, and then some.
(Pavone has no formal attachment to the Archdiocese of New York other than being allowed to work in Staten Island, but he recently criticized New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan for inviting Obama to the upcoming Al Smith Dinner for charity, calling it a “scandal.”)
Pavone is unapologetic.
“Some people have called me too aggressive. Well, too bad.” The fight against abortion is too important to worry about ruffling feathers, he said, and the reality is that church efforts to combat abortion are too tame — the hierarchy’s deeds don’t match their words. And that sends the wrong message.
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