Today's Homily By Father Frank Pavone

My family has just returned from Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville, Virginia, where we were treated to a wonderful surprise. Father Frank Pavone, founder of Priests For Life, was today's guest homilist. I got to speak to Father Pavone briefly after Mass to thank him for the work he does, and especially to thank him for the role he played in trying to save Terri Schiavo.

Father Pavone's homily was a straightforward sermon against the scourge of abortion - nothing fancy, just the facts. How nice to have the Church's pro-life message front and center like that, especially in a parish community of pseudo-intellectual university elitists where probably half the cars in the parking lot still have "Kerry-Edwards" stickers on them. How nice that the Dominican leadership at the parish invited Father Pavone without regard to the backlash they are likely to receive from the pro-abort "Catholics" in the parish.

In the past I've been critical of some aspects of this particular parish, but one thing I have never questioned is the orthodoxy of the Dominicans who lead the parish. Thank you, Father Brian Mulcahy et al for inviting Father Frank Pavone to speak the Church's pro-life "Truth" today at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish.