Cracks Appear in U.S. Pro-Life Movement Over Pavone’s Leadership, by Jonah McKeown, Shannon Mullen

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 25, 2023 / 05:30 am – Frank Pavone, the national director of the pro-life organization Priests for Life, has repeatedly framed his dismissal from the priesthood late last year as the culmination of a long-running campaign by some in the Catholic hierarchy to undermine his outspoken pro-life activism.

“This is not just an attack on me,” Pavone said in a Dec. 19, 2022, statement, “but an effort by forces both inside and outside the Church to intimidate every courageous pro-life priest and lay activist.” …