Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  Pavone was born in 1959 in Port Chester, New York to Marion and Joseph Pavone. His father was a hardware salesman. Pavone aspired to be an astronaut as a child but decided to become a priest after volunteering at his parish. He attended the 1976 March for Life, where he became an anti-abortion activist. After graduating as valedictorian of his high school class, he enrolled in the Don Bosco College, a Salesian Major Seminary in Newton, New Jersey, later leaving the Salesian Order and joining the Archdiocese of New York.
Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  Frank Anthony Pavone (born February 4, 1959) is an American Roman Catholic priest and a pro-life/anti-abortion activist. He is the National Director of Priests for Life (PFL) and serves as the Chairman and Pastoral Director of its project Rachel's Vineyard. He also is the President of the National Pro-Life Religious Council, an umbrella group of various anti-abortion Christian denominations, and serves as Pastoral Director of the Silent No More campaign.
Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  Father Frank Pavone was ordained to the priesthood on November 12, 1988 by Cardinal John O'Connor, then Archbishop of New York, and was assigned to teh parish of St. Charles on Staten Island, NY. During that time, in addition to parish duties, he bagan producing television broadcasts on local cable TV channels. In the late 1990s, Pavone served at the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, an office which coordinated pro-life activities for the Catholic church worldwide and his role included encouraging pro-life leaders to establish local projects. In 1993, he sought and obtained permission from the Cardinal to devote his ministry to protecting 
Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  In 2011, PFL came under scrutiny for failing to disclose financial details, reporting a $1.4 million deficit in 2010 despite collecting tens of millions of dollars in donations during recent years. On September 6, 2011, Pavone was ordered back to his diocese by his bishop, Patrick Zurek of the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas. Zurek limited Pavone to duties within the Diocese of Amarillo because of a protracted disagreement over financial transparency for Pavone's nonprofit Priests for Life and its affiliates – Rachel's Vineyard, which counsels people affected by abortion, and Gospel of Life Ministries, a lay association affiliated with Priests for Life. Pavone remained a priest in good standing, and the bishop did not allege fiscal impropriety. In addition to suspending Pavone 
Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  After disputes in New York with Cardinal Edward Egan, Pavone sought and received a transfer to the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas. In 2005 Pavone became a priest there, serving in anti-abortion ministry with his bishop's permission. Pavone formerly served as a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. In March 2005 the Catholic Diocese of Amarillo announced that Pavone would establish a religious community called Missionaries of the Gospel of Life, a collective of priests and seminarians exclusively dedicated to anti-abortion work. In 2007, Bishop John Yanta, with the approval of the Holy See, suppressed the community.
Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  Pavone provided much commentary during the Terri Schiavo controversy, having been on the limited visitors' list and having been at her bedside many times, including during her final hours. He delivered the homily at Schiavo's funeral Mass at the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in Gulfport, Florida on April 5, 2005. He serves as a member of Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family Institute. Pavone was threatened with death by Theodore Shulman, an abortion rights advocate. Shulman indicated that Pavone would be killed if Scott Roeder, the murderer of George Tiller (who had been an abortion provider from Wichita, Kansas), was acquitted. Commenting on the threat, Pavone said, "I have already publicly forgiven Mr. Shulman and pray for him every day."
Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  In September 2004, Pavone addressed a group of delegates to the Republican National Convention in New York, saying, "Isn't it great to be among Catholics who aren't afraid to be political? And isn't it great to find a few priests who aren't afraid to be political?" Pavone said that abortion was the "single issue" for him in the election of 2004, and indicated the politics of abortion was the reason he endorsed George W. Bush. Pavone has made statements comparing supporting the legality of abortion to supporting terrorism. Pavone said "abortion is no less violent than terrorism". When 2008 presidential candidate John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, Pavone said he believed that Palin was a better Catholic than Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, due to her opposition to abortion, despite Palin's having been raised a Protestant in the Assemblies of God church. In January 
Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  On November 7, 2016, Pavone, a member of Donald Trump's 33-member Catholic advisory council, presented a live video in which he appeared with what he claimed was the body of an unclothed aborted fetus and placed it on an altar. Pavone preached for about 45 minutes on the subject of abortion. Negative reactions were widespread. Ed Mechmann, director of public policy for the Archdiocese of New York, said that "A human being has been sacrificed and the altar of God has been desecrated, all for politics. Everyone who respects the dignity of every human person should reject and disavow this atrocity." Bishop 
Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  demands to straighten out the group's finances and returned to New York to become accountable to his home diocese. In November 2014, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, and former president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote to the bishops of the United States to advise them that the Congregation of the Clergy had conducted an apostolic visitation of PFL the previous year, and had subsequently requested that he "assist Father Pavone with several necessary reforms." Cardinal Dolan wrote to advise the bishops that Pavone had not cooperated with the reforms. As a result, the cardinal told the Holy See that "I am unable to fulfill their mandate, and want nothing further to do with the organization."
Title: Frank Pavone
Content:  a loss of the authority to perform religious ministry, was not supported by the Congregation of the Clergy, which at the same time affirmed a bishop's right to assign clerics incardinated in his diocese. The Holy See's decree allowed Pavone to minister outside the Diocese of Amarillo; however, he still must obtain specific permission to do so from Amarillo's bishop. Pavone was to continue as chaplain to the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ religious order, as assigned by the bishop. In November 2012, the Congregation decided that since the principal office of Priests for Life was in the archdiocese of New York, the archbishop of New York was the competent authority to exercise vigilance over the association. Pavone subsequently complied 

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