Terri Schiavo's supposed "spiritual adviser" suspended by Bishop for "mismanagement" of million$

[Bluebear]

Pavone

If you know the name Father Frank Pavone, it's probably from when he infested our television screens every night as the "spiritual adviser" and "Godly spokesman" for the comatose Terry Shiavo. Following that bit of limelight hogging, Pavone recast himself as the nation's most virulent Catholic in the battle against abortion rights, often appearing shoulder-to-shoulder with the murderous loons of Operation Rescue. (Pavone is "credited" by some for the idea of waving placards featuring bloody dismembered fetuses.)

Pavone is now the national director for Priests For Life, an anti-abortion group with a reported annual donation base in excess of ten million dollars. And whoopsie, his bishop just suspended him for (among other things) suspected financial "mismanagement" of those millions.

Via Catholic News Service:

Father Frank Pavone, one of the country's most visible and vocal opponents of abortion, has been suspended from active ministry outside the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, over financial questions about his operation of Priests for Life. The suspension was made public in a Sept. 9 letter from Amarillo Bishop Patrick J. Zurek to his fellow bishops across the country, but Father Pavone told Catholic News Service that he was returning to Amarillo and planned to continue functioning as a priest there. "My decision is the result of deep concerns regarding his stewardship of the finances of the Priests for Life (PFL) organization," Bishop Zurek wrote. "The PFL has become a business that is quite lucrative which provides Father Pavone with financial independence from all legitimate ecclesiastical oversight." Bishop Zurek said "persistent questions and concerns" from clergy and laity about how the "millions of dollars in donations" the organization has received are being spent led to the action.

http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/

Schiavo circus photos:

[chollybocker]

1. Tax-free grifting!

Another IRS-exempt religious PAC gets thieved, with no official documentation...

"Million$," according to the insurance forms.

[Ilsa]

2. Interesting. The PFL provided him "independence" from

"Legitimate ecclesiastical oversight.". In other words, having an excessive amount of money to play with was fun and his religious bosses couldn't control him or take the money.

When will people ever learn about human nature?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Republicon Family Values - clergy style

Screwing the American peeps, larding their own fat butts -- as always...

[malaise]

4. Duh! It never fails

How typical! Never will I forget that circus

[gordianot]

5. "Jesus on a trailer hitch" in my opinion as classic as "Morans".

I wonder where that prop went? A treasure in someones garage.

However in retrospect I am not sure what is more disgusting; sanctamonious right to lifers (with crooked clergy), or the "let him die" capital punishment lynch- no Government support mob of 2011. What is truly frightening they may be the same gang of nutcases.

[Bluebear]

12. Cut from the same cloth

[Ian David]

6. ...

[Bake]

7. So he was advising a vegetable?

I bet that was easy. Left him plenty of time to steal the money, huh.

Bake

[Javaman]

8. is that nun on the ground...

having a bowel movement?

that's the same face my niece makes when she has to go.

[Bluebear]

9. !

[defendandprotect]

10. K/R --- hmmm ... no end to that farce -- !! Pushed by our Goebbels' style corporate--press ... !!!

[Bluebear]

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