Frank Pavone DEFROCKED by the Vatican [View all]

Didn't see that coming. Though it is richly deserved, IMO...

https://apnews.com/article/religion-vatican-city-3f74a581ccce5830dca18d4f3fa95921

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion U.S. priest, Frank Pavone, for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media” as well as “persistent disobedience” of his bishop who repeatedly told him to stop his partisan activism for Donald Trump.

A letter to U.S. bishops from the Vatican ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Christophe Pierre, obtained Sunday, said that the decision against Pavone, who heads the anti-abortion group Priests for Life, had been taken Nov. 9, and that there was no chance for an appeal...