Catholic Pro Life Leaders - Msgr Philip Riley and Father Frank Pavone

I understand that you are hurt by what I say.

But there was a serious problem on Freerepublic when a poster pretended to be conservative, and got the aide of the Governor of Maryland (Republican) to say things that got conservatives in trouble.

Freerepublic Mail was used by the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post to print information that should have been private.

My real problem is your handle Chipendale - a male strip club.

My question to you: Would you be comfortable with someone whose handle was I Love Linda Lovelace? Linda Lovelace was an actress in the hard core pornography movie Deep Throat. [Linda Lovelace literally had a gun put to her head to that hard core pornography film -- by her husband].

Finally, what you are asking about doesn't help me and does not help God.

I am hoping that being somewhat critical of Father Frank Pavone will make him focus more on this Spiritual Life and help the Spiritual Lives of his employees.

Humility is good for us all -- including Father Frank Pavone.

But with what you asked and what you posted before, I had to draw the line. Period.

Rumor and gossip that becomes slander is a very serious sin (lying).

To ask my opinion of people is a form of spreading gossip and rumor.

In the case of Father Frank Pavone, he is very public, and he is under spiritual attack.

It is my opinion that he needs to make sure that he focuses on spiritually, when is easy NOT to do when one is juggling as many balls as he does with being head of a number of organizations and trying to directly manage 30-40 people.

Freerepublic is about my many way to try to get him to understand how important spirituality is. And he may now...

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