40 Facts About Frank Pavone

Frank Anthony Pavone was born on February 4,1959 and is an American anti-abortion activist and a laicised former Roman Catholic priest.

Frank Pavone is the national director of Priests for Life and the chairman and pastoral director of its Rachel's Vineyard project.

Frank Pavone is the president of the National Pro-Life Religious Council, an umbrella group of various anti-abortion Christian denominations, and the pastoral director of the Silent No More campaign.

Frank Pavone was born in 1959 in Port Chester, New York, to Marion and Joseph Frank Pavone.

Frank Pavone attended the 1976 March for Life, where he became an anti-abortion activist.

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 St Charles Church in Staten Island.

In 2001, Frank Pavone announced a $12 million advertising campaign designed to welcome women who had had abortions back into the church and worked to combine this work with existing efforts underway through the healing outreach of the National Council of Catholic Bishops.

Frank Pavone was honored at the annual "Proudly Pro-Life" award dinner which was organized by the National Right to Life Committee and hosted at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York.

Frank Pavone informed Egan that he wanted to continue to pursue anti-abortion work on a full-time basis and that Bishop John Yanta of Amarillo, Texas, had agreed to support this.

In March 2005, the Diocese of Amarillo announced that Frank 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.

Frank Pavone indicated that the priestly formation activities of the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life were interfering with his anti-abortion advocacy efforts.

In 2022, Frank Pavone was working with a team of canon lawyers on various issues, and seeking incardination in a new, unspecified diocese.

Frank Pavone was dismissed from the clerical state by decree of the Dicastery for the Clergy for "blasphemous communications on social media" and "persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop".

When contacted by the Catholic News Agency on December 17, Frank Pavone told the reporter that it was the first he had heard of the decision, although by mid-January 2023, Frank Pavone stated that it was possible he had been sent a notice before the November 9 communication and he "simply did not see it".

Frank Pavone provided much commentary during the Terri Schiavo controversy, having been on the limited visitors' list and at her bedside many times, including during her final hours.

Frank Pavone delivered the homily at Schiavo's funeral Mass at the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in Gulfport, Florida, on April 5,2005.

Frank Pavone was a member of James Dobson's Focus on the Family Institute.

Frank Pavone was threatened with death by Theodore Shulman, an abortion rights advocate.

Shulman indicated that Frank Pavone would be killed if Scott Roeder, the murderer of George Tiller, was acquitted.

Frank Pavone was both friend and spiritual mentor to McCorvey in the later years of her life, as she came to regret her involvement in the abortion rights issue in the early 1970s.

In 1999, Frank Pavone was placed on the short, court-ordered "approved visitor" list by Schiavo's parents and provided both moral and spiritual support to Schiavo and her parents right up until the time of her death.

Frank Pavone's said that during his bedside time with Schiavo that she would respond when he would pray with her, opening her eyes and looking at him, and closing her eyes during the prayer, opening them again upon completion.

Frank Pavone was, as you would expect, very drawn in her appearance as opposed to when I had seen her before.

Frank Pavone's eyes were open but they were moving from one side to the next, constantly darting back and forth.

In 2011, Frank Pavone was involved in assisting the family of Moe Maraachli, a Canadian man who, with his wife, sought a medical procedure for their dying son, who came to be known as "Baby Joseph", but were refused the treatment in Canada.

In 2013, Frank Pavone presided over a service to give names to the 45 human fetuses found in Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia abortion clinic.

Frank Pavone contacted the Philadelphia Medical Examiner to request permission to bury the "Gosnell babies".

In September 2004, Frank Pavone addressed a group of delegates to the Republican National Convention in New York.

Frank Pavone has made statements comparing supporting the legality of abortion to supporting terrorism.

When 2008 presidential candidate John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, Frank Pavone said he believed that Palin was a better Catholic than Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden due to her opposition to abortion, even though Palin is a Protestant.

In January 2010, Frank Pavone commented on the special election victory of Republican Scott Brown to fill the late Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy's US Senate seat.

Frank Pavone served in leadership positions in former President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign.

Frank Pavone served on the Catholic Advisory Board, and was named national co-chair of Pro-Life Voices For Trump.

On September 6,2011, Frank Pavone was ordered back to his diocese by his bishop, Patrick Zurek of the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas.

Frank Pavone remained a priest in good standing, and the bishop did not allege fiscal impropriety.

The analysis found that Frank Pavone did not draw any salary from the organization.

In September 2011, Frank Pavone appealed to the Holy See to review Bishop Zurek's decision that suspended Frank Pavone's ministry outside the Diocese of Amarillo.

Frank Pavone was to continue as chaplain to the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ religious order, as assigned by the bishop.

Frank Pavone subsequently complied with demands to straighten out the group's finances and returned to New York to become accountable to his home diocese.

Frank Pavone preached for about 45 minutes on the subject of abortion and urged his supporters to vote for Trump.