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babylonsister

(171,056 posts)
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 07:58 PM Nov 2016

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

So repellent... Tax their butts!


A Catholic priest put an aborted fetus on the altar in an appeal for Donald Trump
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey November 7 at 5:46 PM


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In this file photo, the Rev. Frank Pavone of the antiabortion group Priests for Life dedicates a basket of naming certificates for 47 babies who died in the Philadelphia clinic of Kermit Gosnell. (Andre Kim/Priests for Life via Religion News Service)



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 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.”

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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/?tid=sm_fb

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ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
1. Taxing them would help the poor far more than their
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 08:01 PM
Nov 2016

Anti-poverty stances.

Even tho Frank is a refreshing leader, these strum troopers in pockets throughout the US and A still have some pretty horrific ideas.

KK9

(81 posts)
2. That is FAKE!
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 08:03 PM
Nov 2016

I watched the video for a bit, whatever that is he's got on the alter it not a human fetus, at any state of gestation.


healthnut7

(249 posts)
3. Disgusting!!!
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 08:06 PM
Nov 2016

I would send any info people have of priests doing anything like this to the Pope. I don't know where and how you could send it but I'm sure that priest would get his walking papers. So much for this dude being a representative of God. I am a Catholic and can't even imagine anything like this happening.

niyad

(113,259 posts)
5. and exactly where did he get this fetus? assuming it was real, how many laws were violated?
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 08:58 PM
Nov 2016

what a sick little puke.

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
7. I'm not sure but I think that pretty much gets you into hell.
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 09:01 PM
Nov 2016

Sacrilege, desecration of both the altar and the corpse, pagan ritual, and yecccchhhhh.

 

TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
8. This is what he does when he is "entrusted" to bury this "fetus"??
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 09:07 PM
Nov 2016

This really really really pisses me off.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,174 posts)
10. Correct me if I'm wrong
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 09:20 PM
Nov 2016

but wouldn't be unusual for an aborted fetus to be intact? IF that is a human fetus, my guess is that it was micarried, not aborted.

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