By Eric Sammons - While Pavone’s laicization understandably raises many emotions among pro-life Catholics, it’s not as simple as “ Vatican bad, canceled priest good.”
an effort to silence me, but to so many of us .people a people are losing their jobs, td as you know, because they stand for their conservative values. alues.they stand up for their conscience. and that s what they re tryingth to do. the same within the churche sam to priests like me.. it s not going to work. the social media is just an ve i excuse they ve given me.ve twenty one years of excuses. als it s always shifting sands. it s always changing goalposts. cas you can well appreciate. > let l me ask one question, father pavone. i knowne your work and you ve wene such amazing work over the years. but were you asked a were ast ot to become a parish priest ded you declined and did that actually occur? oh, absolutely.ed. did ?that s what how this starts reason i say twenty one years is that in twenty one , cardinal egan, after i had led priests for life for four,pt eight years and also served at the vatican for two of thosefori years in the pro-life office under john paul,aid the sec