Father Pavone's Priests for Life approved.Amarillo, TX -- Father Frank Pavone is national director of the Priests for Life Priests for Life (PFL) is a Roman Catholic pro-life organization based in New York. It functions as a network to promote and coordinate pro-life activism with the primary strategic goal of ending abortion and euthanasia and to spread the Gospel of Life according to the encyclical movement. On December 12, 2005, his dream "to form a community that can accept seminarians ... to devote their entire ministry to the defense of the unborn," came true. On that date, Bishop John Yanta of Amarillo, Texas, officially approved the new society of apostolic life A Society of Apostolic Life is a kind of religious order within the Roman Catholic Church, whose members do not make religious vows, unlike members of an Institute of Consecrated Life. This type of orgainisation is defined in the Code of Canon Law under canons 731-755. as the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life The Missionaries of the Gospel of Life are a Catholic religious order that was founded by Fr. Frank Pavone. On December 12, 2005 Bishop John Yanta of the Diocese of Amarillo, in Texas, United States, signed the constitution of the Missionaries of the Gospel of life, thereby . Fr. Pavone attributes the inspiration for the Society to the example and writings of Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła . It will include priests, deacons and lay missionaries. Those interested in joining can contact the Priests for Life at vocations@priestsforlife.org. |
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