Father Frank Pavone, leader of the pro-life organization Priests for Life, has been dismissed from the clergy with no possibility of appealing his case.
According to a Dec. 13 letter (pdf), Archbishop Christophe Pierre announced that Pavone had been “dismissed from the clerical state” on Nov. 9, with “no possibility of appeal.” According to an attached statement, Pavone was “found guilty in canonical proceedings of blasphemous communications on social media and of persistent disobedience of lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop.” Despite Pavone’s dismissal being in November, as announced in the Dec. 13 letter, news of his removal was not widely known until it was revealed in a Dec. 17 report by the Catholic News Agency….