LifeSite News reports:
Pope Leo’s Nuncio to the United States has refused the request of America’s best-known pro-life priest from offering a funeral Mass for his mother, who died at 91 on December 15.
Cardinal Christophe Pierre replied Thursday to a December 16 request for permission from Frank Pavone, saying “I believe that the limitations imposed by your canonical status, compounded by the complexity of your public profile, make it impossible for the request to be considered.”
Pavone, one of the most well-known pro-life priests around the world, was laicized by personal order of Pope Francis in 2022, in a move widely believed to be punishment for Pavone’s stance on abortion which was so opposite that of Francis, who welcomed abortionists and population controllers into the Vatican.
The previous Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, denounced Fr. Pavone’s laicization as “unjust and illegitimate punishment” and an attempt “to feed a climate of terror among the clergy so as to constrain them into servile and fearful obedience.”
Despite the startling charges of blasphemy and disobedience which the Vatican leveled against Pavone as the reason for the decision, Vatican Cardinal Gerhard Müller told LifeSiteNews at the time that it was “not justified” and “political.” The former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith added: “I think there was truly a lot of pressure [from] the Democratic Party.”
Meanwhile, we have this story about Fr. James Martin.
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