'So in every profession, including the priesthood, if you defend the unborn, you will be treated like them!” Pavone wrote in a tweet Sunday.
Father Frank Pavone celebrates Mass for those attending the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference. Photo: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Imagesrights priest in the United States, of his priesthood.
"This action was taken after Father Pavone was found guilty in canonical proceedings," the letter from Vatican ambassador to the U.S. Archbishop Christophe Pierre states, per AP. Pavone was given a chance to defend himself during the canonical proceedings per the letter, but it was determined that he "had no reasonable justification for his actions."In 2016, Pavone placed an aborted fetus on an altar and then posted a video of it online, prompting the Texas diocese he was serving at the time to investigate him., which features a profile photo of him wearing a MAGA hat.
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