No one questions whether Bishop Patrick Zurek had the authority to place Father Frank Pavone on forced hiatus. Good people do question whether the bishop’s decision was warranted. That dispute aside, the bishop certainly must have realized that to abruptly and without warning bar Father Pavone from fulfilling his pro-life speaking obligations for an undefined […]

As a Michigan state senator, Gary Peters was so pro-abortion he voted against the partial birth abortion ban. His pro-death obsession extended to the other end of life. “He was probably the senate’s most strident advocate of legalizing assisted suicide during his tenure,” Ed Rivet,  Michigan Right to Life’s Legislative Director, told me, adding that […]

The Washington Post is reporting this morning about a “contentious battle” emerging between Catholic groups and the Obama administration over a multitude of issues ranging from Obamacare, abortion, contraception, to even human trafficking. What brought the fracas tumbling out into the street was apparently a decision by the Department of Health and Human Services three […]

Read backstory here. This fiasco left off with Bishop Patrick Zurek (pictured right) publicly announcing on October 6 a private meeting he had invited Father Frank Pavone to attend on October 13. When that meeting did not happen, Bishop Zurek appears to have misrepresented why it did not happen, quoting Amarillo Globe-News on October 14… […]

It was four weeks ago today that someone with malicious intent leaked a scathing letter to the press written by Amarillo Bishop Patrick Zurek to all U.S. bishops announcing he had “decided to suspend” Priests for Life’s Fr. Frank Pavone “from public ministry outside of the Diocese.”

The Lord, the Word Incarnate, took on human flesh and became man.  He didn’t descend from heaven a full-grown man, but began His human journey at conception in Mary’s blessed womb.  He redeemed every single second of our human existence and showed quite clearly that every single second of it is blessed, good and precious […]

After a summer hiatus, Todd Bullis and his group of Christian pro-life activists resumed what they call the “Church Project,” an effort to awaken Ventura, CA, church congregants to the reality of abortion through graphic displays on Sunday mornings. Todd’s effort has been educational for me. He chooses churches with no demonstrable evidence that they […]

7:34p: Priests for Life has issued a statement entitled, “Diocese of Amarillo Issues Clarification Affirming Fr. Frank Pavone’s Good Standing and Character,” in conjunction with the letter below. 7:15p: A friend told me I’d soon eat the “I’ve got to move on” words in my previous post, because the Father Pavone issue is exploding. But […]