Father Frank hoped to be a saint but Mr Pavone won't be a priest. If, like Shenoute, your credo is N THE GAR ETE MN MNT-LESTES SHOÖP N NETE OU-NTAU IESOUS HN OUME; you have asserted yourself a λῃστής. You might take a cross, but not the Cross.
It is one of those Hobbesian rules that if you serve in a hierarchy, where you have problems with the hierarchy, your avenues for forcing changes in that hierarchy must start with speaking to those within the hierarchy. The Catholic communion, to which Frank still belongs (defrocked but not excommunicated), already does activism. "40 Days Of Life". But more the Church (here including all the orthodox, not just in Latin) does aid; crisis pregnancy, relevant here.
In all P. Frank's theatre, how many lives did he save? I'll concede: some. There are bishops as sympathise with this totalism.
But Frank's bishops had to ask: how many souls did he lose? How many outsiders did he provoke - how many innocents did he expose? Our appeal is becoming more selective! - said the Essenes.
"Lapsed Catholics" (and lapsed Christians) will produce more abortion-attempts, and - above all - more general apathy toward this world as it is. Life has not been served, by Frank Pavone.
Frank Pavone should look into his own soul and consider how he might best serve the cause. Bishop Joseph Strickland may have to do the same.
CALLED IT 11/11/23: Sigh. Pray for the Bishop; I understand he retains episcopal charism(?), if that be the term, but he has no see.
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