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| Rome Denies Fr. Pavone’s Request to Say Funeral Mass for His Mother |
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Posted by: Stone - 1 hour ago - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Rome Denies Fr. Pavone’s Request to Say Funeral Mass for His Mother
The hierarchy can ration tradition, platform revolutionaries, and smile through public disorder — but a pro-life priest’s grief must be managed.
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Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile [slightly adapted] | Dec 19, 2025
The Letter
Fr. Frank Pavone posts a note on nuncio letterhead. Dated December 18, 2025. Signed by Cardinal Christophe Pierre. The request is simple, human, and so normal it should not need a file number: permission to celebrate his mother’s funeral Mass.
The reply is the kind of bureaucratic cruelty the modern chancery class mistakes for “pastoral balance.” Condolences up front, a hard stop in the middle, and a pious seasonal flourish at the end. The core sentence is the only honest line in the whole genre: “the limitations imposed by your canonical status, compounded by the complexity of your public profile, make it impossible for the request to be considered.”
Impossible. That one word is the catechism of the new order. Not “this is painful,” not “this is delicate,” not even “we fear confusion.” Just impossible, as though a son’s grief were a missing form, as though the altar were a government counter.
And yes, the date is perfect. The same day the USCCB announced Dolan’s resignation and the appointment of Ronald Hicks as Archbishop of New York, an announcement publicized by Pierre himself.
One hand signs episcopal press releases. The other hand tells a priest he cannot bury his mother at the altar. This is what managerial Catholicism looks like when it stops pretending.
The Calling
The strongest defense of Fr. Pavone is that the Church herself put him on this battlefield and then punished him for fighting like it mattered.
Fr. Pavone became a national pro-life figure because the Church treated the pro-life crisis as an apostolate worthy of national-scale priestly energy. Cardinal John O’Connor brought him into Priests for Life in the early 1990s, and for years he functioned publicly as a priest whose primary “assignment” was trench warfare against the legal killing of children.
That’s what makes the “public profile” sneer so telling. In the old Catholic imagination, public priestly work wasn’t a problem when it defended the innocent and proclaimed the moral law. In the new imagination, “public profile” is code for “you made the wrong people uncomfortable.”
The Transfer
Then came the shift that always shows you where the fault line really is. Not whether Pavone was “pro life.” Everyone says they’re pro life. The fight was whether he could keep doing it full throttle without being domesticated by chancery culture.
After O’Connor’s era, the relationship with New York tightened into restrictions. Under Cardinal Edward Egan, Pavone’s situation became increasingly constrained, and the public record ties the eventual solution to exactly that friction. He needed a canonical home that would let Priests for Life function as his full time apostolate instead of a tolerated side gig under constant leash.
So in 2005 he transferred his incardination to Amarillo, Texas. Not because he wanted to become a West Texas parish priest. Because that move gave his national apostolate a stable diocesan anchor while the work continued largely based out of New York.
That’s the key. Amarillo wasn’t a “relocation.” It was a canonical shelter.
The Amarillo Turn
And for a time, it worked, because the bishop who received him treated the pro life mission the way a Catholic bishop is supposed to treat it: as something to defend, not something to manage.
Bishop John Yanta brought Pavone in and gave him room. He functioned like the safe harbor bishop, the one willing to let a national pro life priest be a national pro life priest, even if the work wasn’t tidy, even if it was loud, even if it annoyed the right people.
Then Yanta retired. And this is where the story stops being mysterious and starts being familiar.
Bishop Patrick Zurek takes over Amarillo, and suddenly the screws turn. In 2011 comes the order to report back to the diocese for “prayer and reflection,” the episcopal phrase that always sounds spiritual and almost always means administrative containment. Come home. Get quiet. Submit. Let your apostolate be resized to fit diocesan control.
Zurek even said the quiet part out loud at the time. The pro life mission itself was “not in question.” That line is the modern episcopal two step. Praise the cause in principle, then punish the man who refuses to practice the cause in a way that is polite, controllable, and politically harmless.
So yes, the mission didn’t change. The bishop did. And when the bishop changes, the entire machine changes, because the bishop holds the canonical hook, and Rome holds the hammer.
The Clampdown
The whiplash came when episcopal control became the point.
Rome’s 2022 notice to the U.S. bishops said Pavone was dismissed from the clerical state for “blasphemous communications on social media” and “persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop,” and that the decision allowed “no possibility of appeal.”
Whatever you think of his rhetoric, that combination should bother any Catholic who still believes penalties exist for the salvation of souls rather than the satisfaction of a bureaucracy. Maximum finality, minimum specificity, and a demand that the faithful treat the destruction of a public priesthood as an administrative memo.
The same coverage also notes what everyone knows but few will say out loud: Pavone’s political entanglements became part of the conflict, including the demand that he stop certain partisan activity, with disobedience cited as a core charge.
In America, that is not a small detail. It’s the key. Because abortion is not an abstract “issue” here. It is a civil religion. A priest who refuses to pretend the parties are morally symmetrical on legalized child-killing will inevitably be called “partisan,” even when he is simply refusing to lie about reality.
The Real Offense
If you want to understand why Pavone became intolerable to the new regime, don’t start with his Twitter tone. Start with what he made unavoidable.
Pro-life work at Pavone’s intensity forces choices. It forces clarity. It forces confrontation with the political machine that protects abortion. It forces Catholics to stop hiding behind soft phrases like “both sides” and “prudence” when one side treats dismembered children as a sacrament of autonomy.
That kind of priest is a living rebuke to an episcopal culture that wants pro-life words without pro-life consequences. They will praise the cause in principle while disciplining the man who refuses to keep the cause quiet.
So yes, his support for Trump matters here, not because Trump is a saint, but because 2016 and 2020 were not morally complicated on the central question of the state’s right to kill children. Pavone refused to play dumb. That refusal is what the managerial class cannot forgive.
The Double Standard
Now watch the machine’s selective squeamishness about “politics.”
When priests and bishops posture against Trump on immigration, the language becomes urgent, public, and photogenic. Reuters reported U.S. bishops condemning immigration enforcement and opposing “indiscriminate mass deportation,” with the usual moral framing.
The hierarchy is not “above politics.” It simply prefers its own politics.
Chicago supplies a perfect exhibit. Clergy activism around immigration enforcement has included public demonstrations connected to bringing Holy Communion to detainees at the Broadview ICE facility, being denied, and then turning the denial into a sustained media cycle, lawsuits, and headline.
When the cameras are pointed at Trump, public clerical activism is “prophetic.” When the cameras are pointed at abortion and a pro-life priest refuses to moderate his fire, the Church suddenly discovers that “public profile” makes everything impossible.
Chicago’s notorious Fr. Pfleger belongs in this conversation, because he has spent decades being publicly political while remaining institutionally survivable. Chicago media and national Catholic outlets have repeatedly treated his activism as part of the landscape rather than as grounds for eradication, even when it includes direct public attacks on Trump and his policies.
The rule is not “no politics.” The rule is “no politics that embarrasses the conciliar establishment.”
New York’s Sponsored Scandal
Then you get the kind of story that would have triggered immediate correction in a Catholic world that still feared scandal as the faithful once understood it.
Gio Benitez was publicly confirmed at St. Paul the Apostle in Manhattan, with his “husband” serving as sponsor, and it was widely treated as a feel-good “inclusion” moment.
A Confirmation sponsor is a public ecclesial role held up to the faithful as exemplary Catholic life. A public same-sex civil “marriage” is not a private struggle. It is a public state. That is precisely why the Church traditionally treated such public contradictions as matters requiring correction, not applause.
So where is Pierre’s word “impossible” for that? Where is the letterhead clarity? Where is the hard stop?
It doesn’t exist. Because the postconciliar hierarchy’s idea of scandal has been inverted. Scandal is no longer what confuses souls about sin. Scandal is what embarrasses the managerial class.
The Nativity as Protest Sign
The same instinct shows up in smaller, uglier ways: sacred imagery converted into political signage, then defended as “prophetic,” and managed as optics.
The National Catholic Register documented the Boston-area parish standoff over an “anti-ICE” Nativity display, with the archdiocese calling it inappropriate and the pastor publicly resisting.
Notice the contrast with Pavone. There is “dialogue” and press conferences and public wrangling when the messaging aligns with the Church’s preferred political theater. But when a pro-life priest asks to bury his mother at the altar, the answer is not “let’s talk.” It’s impossible.
The Phrase That Gives It Away
Pierre’s letter did not merely cite canonical status. It added “the complexity of your public profile.”
That is the admission. This is not governance by the old Catholic categories of truth, repentance, reparation, scandal, and discipline ordered to salvation. It is governance by risk management. “Public profile” is the new crime. The unforgivable sin is to become a symbol the regime cannot control.
And that is why Pavone is still being punished even after the laicization. The system doesn’t merely want to discipline. It wants to domesticate memory. It wants priests to learn the lesson: if you choose the wrong enemies, Rome will remember your tone. If you choose the right enemies, Rome will remember your dignity.
A Word to Fr. Pavone
If Rome’s penalty is just, then it should be able to withstand sunlight. It should be able to explain itself with clarity, not slogans. It should be able to demonstrate proportionality, not merely power. And it should not need to add gratuitous cruelty by denying a son the ordinary consolation of the altar for his mother’s funeral.
But if the penalty is unjust, or weaponized, or infected with the regime’s obsession with optics and “public profile,” then it does not bind the conscience the way a truly lawful and truly ordered command binds.
Old Catholic moral theology never taught that “obedience” means moral suicide. Obedience is a virtue ordered to God, not a spell that turns injustice into justice because it came on letterhead. Commands that are contrary to the purpose of authority, or that are issued as petty punishment rather than the cure of souls, do not become holy merely by being issued. The Church’s law exists for salvation, not to satisfy the temperament of bureaucrats.
So here is the simplest way to say it, in a way Fr. Pavone can actually own without converting to anyone’s full ecclesiology overnight.
A son asking to offer the Holy Sacrifice for his mother is not asking for a political rally. He is asking for an act of religion. If those who wield power insist on turning that act of religion into a public humiliation, then their “authority” is functioning as a lash, not a staff.
And if they want to bare their teeth by escalating further, let them. Let them try to excommunicate a priest because he offered a funeral Mass for his mother. Let them force the mask fully off. Let them publish, in their own handwriting, the priority list they have tried to hide for sixty years.
Because the moment they do, the faithful will finally see the regime without incense and soft adjectives. Not a shepherd protecting souls, but a machine enforcing compliance. Not courage against the culture of death, but precision against the men who refuse to make peace with it.
Conclusion
Pierre’s letter says the request is “impossible.” Fine. Then the word becomes a mirror.
Impossible to let a pro-life priest mourn at the altar, yet somehow always possible to platform the clerics who soften sin into identity, possible to stage the sacraments as PR, possible to sermonize against Trump with cameras rolling, possible to treat political theater as pastoral courage.
This is why the faithful are angry, and why they are right to be. Not because discipline exists, but because discipline has become a class weapon.
If Fr. Pavone’s life has been a provocation, it is this: he treated abortion like the emergency it is. He refused to domesticate the horror. He refused to speak the dialect. He made the bishops’ cowardice visible simply by not sharing it.
And now the regime wants him to grieve quietly, offstage, out of sight, because even his mother’s funeral must be managed.
No.
If they are going to punish him, let them do it in the open. If they are going to show the faithful what kind of Church they have built, let them show it in full daylight. The altar does not belong to public relations men. The Mass is not a privilege dispensed to the compliant. And a son’s prayer for his mother is not “impossible” unless the men in charge have forgotten what the priesthood is for.
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| French Government Targets Catholic Schools - Illegitimate Inspections |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-18-2025, 10:59 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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French Government Targets Catholic Schools - Illegitimate Inspections
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gloria.tv | December 18, 2025
The French Ministry of Education started a series of controls in Catholic private schools, carried out mainly in late 2025.
The issue gained national attention following a parliamentary hearing of Guillaume Prévost, Secretary General of Catholic Education, held on December 2.
Prévost presented feedback collected from school heads and teachers.
On December 8, the Secretariat General of Catholic Education published a 14-page document summarizing incidents. They include:
Intrusive questioning
Inspectors asked young students and staff intrusive questions about their religious beliefs and practices, including about attendance at mass and private spiritual life.
Searches and documentation
Inspectors searched pupils’ belongings, such as schoolbags, and examined or photographed private materials, including spiritual journals or documents.
Questioning of very young pupils
Children were questioned without the presence of a neutral adult.
Undermining the Catholic identity
Certain inspection practices sought to neutralise the Catholic identity of schools. Inspectors expressed suspicion toward religious expression.
Furthermore, inspectors requested to remove religious signs.
The compiled testimonies described the inspections as arbitrary, anxiety-inducing, and overbearing. Catholic leaders said the methods had a deeply negative impact on school personnel and added stress.
The issue received wide coverage across French media outlets, including radio, national newspapers, religious publications, and press agencies.
In response, the Ministry of Education acknowledged the publication of the report. It "had taken note" of the allegations.
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| Charlotte Bishop Bans All Use of Kneelers for Communion |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-18-2025, 10:57 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Charlotte Bishop Bans All Use of Kneelers for Communion
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gloria.tv | December 18, 2025
Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina, has banned the public use of kneelers for receiving Communion with effect from 16 January 2026.
In a letter published on CharlotteDiocese.org on 17 December, he writes that using them is 'a visible contradiction to the normative posture of Holy Communion established by our episcopal conference'.
The text begins with pious or banal quotations.
He then admits that it is the right of the faithful to kneel when receiving Holy Communion. But: "The normative posture for all the faithful in the United States is standing."
"Faithful individuals who feel compelled to kneel to receive the Eucharist, as is their right, should prayerfully consider the communal blessing that is realised when we share a common posture."
Monsignor Martin refers to the norms of the US bishops' conference which "logically" do not envisage the use of kneelers or receiving communion.
The three main points of the letter are:
1. Clergy, catechists, ministers of Holy Communion, and teachers are to instruct communicants according to the normative posture in the United States. They are not to teach that some other manner is better, preferred, more efficacious, etc.
2. The use of kneelers are not to be utilized for the reception of Communion in public celebrations by January 16, 2026.
3. Temporary or movable fixtures used for kneeling for the reception of communion are to be removed by January 16, 2026.
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| Leo XIV Appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks as Archbishop of New York |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-18-2025, 10:53 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Leo XIV Appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks as Archbishop of New York
gloria.tv | December 18, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Ron Hicks, 58, of Joliet, Illinois, as the 11th Archbishop of New York.
Monsignor Hicks was ordained as a priest in 1994 by likely homosexual Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. He was ordained as an auxiliary bishop by pro-homosexual Cardinal Blase Cupich, whom he owes his entire carreer.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who has led the Archdiocese of New York since 2009, will be remembered for permitting a transvestite show funeral for homosexual activist Cecilia Gentili at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in February 2024.
In all likelihood, substantively, Bishop Hicks will not differ significantly from Cardinal Dolan.
First Generation-X Prelate at Major US Archdiocese
Bishop Hicks will be the first Generation-X prelate (born roughly between 1965 and 1980) to hold a major U.S. see. He comes from a very different era of seminary formation.
The Archbishop of New York is traditionally appointed a cardinal.
From 2005 to 2010, Bishop Hicks spent five years on missionary assignment in El Salvador.
The article's picture shows Rev Hicks bearing relics of Archbishop Óscar Romero at a 2015 beatification event in San Salvador. Romero was a left-wing political activist.
In 2010, Monsignor Hicks became Dean of Seminary Formation for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Cardinal Cupich's Ally
Cardinal Blase Cupich elevated him to the post of Vicar General in 2015.
In 2018, Hicks was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, and in 2020 he was named Bishop of Joliet, Illinois, a suburban Chicago diocese.
Monsignor Hicks is closely associated with the Cupich and Pope Francis ecclesial style. His public record includes high praise for both figures.
He is widely regarded as a disciplined administrator.
His record in the Diocese of Joliet suggests a restrained and even friendly approach to existing Traditional Latin Mass communities. However, as a loyalist, he may act differently under pressure from New York and the Vatican.
New York Archdiocese Faces Major Challenges
Cardinal Dolan’s final years have been marked by severe financial strain on the archdiocese.
The leadership transition comes as the Archdiocese of New York works to raise $300 million to settle roughly 1,300 sexual abuse claims. To meet that goal, the archdiocese has cut costs, reduced its operating budget by 10 percent, laid off staff, and sold major real-estate assets.
These include plans to sell the land beneath the Lotte New York Palace hotel for approximately $490 million—partly to repay loans taken out for earlier settlements—as well as an expected $100 million from the sale of the former archdiocesan headquarters on First Avenue.
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| Pope Leo to name Cupich ally to replace Cardinal Dolan as archbishop of New York: report |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-16-2025, 12:10 PM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Pope Leo to name Cupich ally to replace Cardinal Dolan as archbishop of New York: report
Bishop Ronald Hicks of the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, reported to be Cardinal Timothy Dolan's successor,
served under heterodox Cardinal Blase Cupich in the Archdiocese of Chicago.
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Archbishop of New York cardinal Timothy Dolan holds his homily during a Mass in his own titular Church 'Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario' at the northern outskirts of Rome on May 4, 2025 in Rome, Italy
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Dec 15, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — A Monday report suggested that Pope Leo XIV plans to appoint Bishop Ronald A. Hicks, a close ally of heterodox Cardinal Blase Cupich, as the next archbishop of New York, replacing Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
The rumor, first reported by leftist Spanish-language news outlet Religión Digital, suggests that Pope Leo is expected to officially name Hicks, the current bishop of Joliet, Illinois, as Cardinal Dolan’s successor as early as Tuesday, December 16. Hicks, 58, has deep ties to Cupich, having served under him for years in the Archdiocese of Chicago and even being consecrated a bishop by the cardinal, who has become notorious for contradicting Church teaching on same-sex “marriage” and gender ideology, downplaying abortion, and his staunch opposition to Catholic tradition.
Hicks was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1994 and has spent most of his priesthood in roles within the archdiocese. He was appointed as its vicar general by Cupich in 2015, serving in that role until he was consecrated an auxiliary bishop by the cardinal in 2018.
Hicks was named bishop of Joliet by Pope Francis in 2020 and, in 2024, became the chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life, and Vocations.
In 2021, Hicks, along with Cupich, was among the 68 bishops who signed a letter asking the USCCB to drop the issue of barring pro-abortion politicians from receiving the Eucharist. In 2024, he was among the Illinois bishops who forbade parishes within his diocese from promoting a petition for a state ballot advisory question aimed at legally requiring parental consent for medical interventions such as abortions and “sex changes” for minors.
READ: Illinois bishops forbid promotion of petition seeking parental consent for minors’ abortions, ‘sex changes’
Hicks was also notably silent when Cupich planned to honor radically pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin with a lifetime achievement earlier this year. The Joliet bishop, however, has spoken out on the issue of immigration. In November, after the USCCB issued its first “special message” in over a decade denouncing the Trump administration’s mass deportation of illegal immigrants, Hicks released a statement emphasizing that the “powerful and unified” message affirmed the bishop’s “solidarity with all our (immigrant) brothers and sisters.”
It’s worth noting that Cardinal Dolan just turned 75 in February, and while the Church requires bishops to submit their resignations at that age, it is customary to allow cardinals to continue in their role until they reach age 80. Pope Leo accepting Dolan’s resignation now would appear to indicate the Pontiff is unhappy with his leadership.
The archbishop of New York has been heavily criticized by American leftists for repeatedly expressing support for President Donald Trump and, in recent months, for referring to the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a “modern day St. Paul.”
On the other hand, Dolan has allowed several sacrilegious, pro-LGBT “pride Masses” to be celebrated in the archdiocese and infamously served as the grand marshal for the 2015 St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the first that allowed a homosexual activist group to participate.
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