Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Did Francis remove Father Frank Pavone from the priesthood for blasphemy or because he took a firm stand against the Culture of Death?


The story is told of an atheist who came to the monastery where Father Solanus Casey served as the holy porter. Father Casey looked him in the eye and told him, "You are a damned fool."

The definition of "goddamned" from Merriam Webster here.

So what to make of Father Frank Pavone's usage of "goddamned" when referring to those who promote the murder of innocent children in the womb?  Does it merit his removal from the priesthood?  See here.


In his work Liberalism is a Sin, Father Felix Sarda y Salvany explains that:

"Liberalism never gives battle on solid ground; it knows too well that in a discussion of principles it must meet with irretrievable defeat. It prefers tactics of recrimination, and under the sting of a just flagellation whiningly accuses Catholics of  lack of charity in their polemics. This is also the ground which certain Catholics, tainted with Liberalism, are in the habit of taking.

Let us see what is to be said on this score. We Catholics, on this point as on all others, have reason on our side, whilst Liberals have only its shadow. In the first place a Catholic can handle his Liberal adversary openly, if such he be in truth; no one can doubt this. If an author or a journalist makes open profession of Liberalism and does not conceal his Liberal predilections what injury can be done him in calling him a Liberal? Si palman res est, repetitio injuria non est: "to say what everybody knows is no injury." With much stronger reason to say of our neighbor what he every instant says of himself cannot justly offend. And yet how many Liberals, especially those of the easygoing and moderate type, regard the expressions "Liberal" and "friend of Liberals," which Catholic adversaries apply to them as offensive and uncharitable!


Granting that Liberalism is a bad thing, to call the public defenders and professors of Liberalism bad is no want of charity.


The law of justice, potent in all ages, can be applied in this case. The Catholics of today are no innovators in this respect.  We are simply holding to the constant practice of antiquity. The propagators and abettors of heresy have at all times been called heretics as well as its authors. As the Church has always considered heresy a very grave evil, so has she always called its adherents bad and pervert..."

See here.

5 comments:

Ted Loiseau said...

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/11/06/pope-francis-praises-pro-abortion-economist-on-papal-commission-in-remarks-about-women/

Ted Loiseau said...

Francis has also criticized the church for being “obsessed” with issues like abortion and homosexuality. No doubt he views the pro-life Father Frank Pavone as a "fanatic" for his witness to the sanctity of human life.

Paul Anthony Melanson said...

https://www.lifenews.com/2022/12/18/catholic-bishop-condemns-vatican-dismissing-pavone-the-blasphemy-is-this-holy-priest-is-canceled/

Paul Anthony Melanson said...

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/indefensible-pro-lifers-conservatives-voice-support-for-fr-pavone-following-vatican-laicization/

Anonymous said...

https://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2022/12/who-is-real-blasphemer.html?m=1

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