A Catholic priest put an aborted fetus on the altar in an appeal for Donald Trump

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/07/a-catholic-priest-put-an-aborted-fetus-on-the-altar-in-an-appeal-for-donald-trump/

Ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election, the Rev. Frank Pavone took an aborted fetus, laid it upon an altar Sunday and posted a live video on Facebook. Pavone, a Catholic priest who heads New York-based Priests for Life, said the fetus was entrusted to him by a pathologist for burial.

During an already heated and divisive campaign season, Pavone’s video has raised questions for some about what is appropriate antiabortion and political activism in the church. As of Monday afternoon, the video, which is 44 minutes long, had had 236,000 views. In it, he holds up a poster of graphics of abortion procedures.

In Pavone’s Facebook appeal, he wrote, “we have to decide if we will allow this child killing to continue in America or not. Hillary Clinton and the Democratic platform says yes, let the child-killing continue (and you pay for it); Donald Trump and the Republican platform says no, the child should be protected.”

A recent quote from the pope.
"No tyranny finds support without tapping into our fears," Francis said. "This is key. Hence, all tyranny is terrorist. And when this terror -- which was sown in the peripheries, with the massacres, looting, oppression and injustice -- explodes in centers with different forms of violence, even hateful and cowardly attacks, citizens who still retain some rights are tempted to the false security of physical or social walls.
"Walls that enclose some and banish others. Walled citizens, terrified on one side, excluded, exiled, and still more terrified on the other. Is that the life that our Father God wants for their children?
"Dear brothers and sisters -- all walls fall. All of them. Do not be fooled."

[vlyons]

1. and where exactly did he find a fetus?

[Wounded Bear]

2. So, if they think that a fetus is a human life, isn't that desecration?

[redwitch]

4. What he did is considered sacrilege by the Church.

The man has a screw loose. I will be interested to see what is done about this action.

[SamKnause]

3. Your link has nothing to do with your post.

Do you have a link that pertains to your post ???

[still_one]

6. obviously acceptance of someone who rapes an minor is no problem with this "priest"

[IamTheNoodle]

7. Donny Trump wanted Marla Maples to abort Tiffany

Why do these religious folks buy so easily into what the huckster is selling?

[spiderpig]

9. We're getting into American Horror Story territory here

Next week: Rick Santorum

[TrekLuver]

10. OMG..WHAT A SICKO ...and posting it to FB!! I'd really like to know how many children he has

adopted or how many children he's help his flock adopt. JUST SICK. Is there anything we can do about this guy? I'd love to see him BE TAKEN DOWN.

[Island Blue]

13. Tax dollars collected from the Catholic Church

sure would come in handy.

[KK9]

14. Come on...seriously

That is NOT a human fetus. Totally fake.

[anneboleyn]

15. Link to Patheos article. Pavone is a rogue priest who was kicked off on EWTN (the super conservative

Catholic television network). Pavone is notorious for pulling all sorts of insane stunts to bring attention to the issue that he thinks is more important than anything else, like feeding and caring for the poor, etc. He is a total nutcase.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scottericalt/after-sick-political-stunt-fr-pavones-faculties-should-be-suspended/

[anneboleyn]

16. Also, he should be suspended for desecrating the altar (the altar is serious business in Catholic

theology). Pavone's action desecrates the scared space of the altar, and the Patheos article (Patheos is a site dedicated to religious points of view written by academics and others) argues that he should be permanent suspended for staging a grotesque stunt, abusing a Catholic sacred space in the process. Some priest.