After the Vatican dismissed pro-life leader Fr. Frank Pavone from the priesthood with “no possibility of appeal,” canon lawyer Fr. Gerald E. Murray pointed out that the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law “does not state that the possible penalties” for the offenses the Vatican accused Pavone of committing “include dismissal from the clerical state.” “Only the Pope, who enjoys ‘full and supreme power in the Church’ (canon 332, 1), can issue such a decision against which there is no possible appeal,” Murray added. READ
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