Frank Pavone once chaired Catholics for Trump. Then he was defrocked by the Vatican. Now, women are coming forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct.
Pavone, 64, is the director of, a non-profit that funnels millions of dollars a year into the anti-abortion movement.
Rev. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, leads a prayer during the March for Life anti-abortion rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, January 22, 2009.One is Father Stephen Imbarrato, who served as pastoral team member at Priests for Life from 2015 to 2019.
“Priests for Life had an excellent sexual harassment policy on the books. But they had no human resource department and their sexual-harassment committee reported to, and was headed by, Frank Pavone. So it was neither safe nor independent,” Imbarrato says. “I went directly to the board and demanded a safe and confidential, independent sexual harassment committee that reported to the board directly.
“Sadly, this former member was unhappy with his assigned duties during the few years he spent with us, and he has been very vocal about his disdain for our national director. His accusations are deliberately spiteful,” a spokesperson for Priests for Life told The Daily Beast. “He was this pro-life superstar. He was this celebrity, this amazing figure who wanted to give me all these opportunities… and I look back on it now, and it was all manipulation. It was creating a little paramour,” the woman told the outlet. “I think that he planned to have his way with me.”
After making her report to the archdiocese, the woman told the outlet she was never made aware of any details of an investigation. She had only one 20-minute call with Pavone’s bishop, Patrick Zurek. “I did not have the same experience as the other young woman as far as severity,” Morson told The Daily Beast. “But there were definitely red flags, and boundary-crossing.”
Morson, who has herself reported extensively on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, says it took years for her to realize that she too had been groomed by Pavone. Morson says Pavone told her that he and Greg Cunnginham, an anti-abortion activist and executive director of the Center for BioEthical Reform, had come into possession of explicit footage of illegal abortion procedures filmed in the developing world, in countries where the treatment was illegal.
Cunningham told The Daily Beast that his organization obtains footage of abortions from “whistleblowers” whose identities are protected by non-disclosure agreements. Worthington says she then confided in her father, who called Angelo DeStefano, Priests for Life’s executive director, to complain. In the early 2000s, Pavone became involved in the Terri Schiavo case, delivering the homily at her funeral mass. He was also close to Norma McCorvey, the real name of “Jane Roe,” the lead plaintiff in the original Roe v. Wade Supreme Court that legalized abortion.
“I am showing him to you because in this election we have to decide if we will allow this child killing to continue in America or not,” Pavone said in the video according to The following year, Bishop Zurek wrote a letter to Pavone recommending that Pavone be defrocked and removed as a priest “because of your scandalous behavior, your involvement in partisan politics, your persistent disobedience, your lack of respect for legitimate ecclesiastical authority.
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