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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to the Bucks Exton Show. We have Frank

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Speaker 2: Pavone with us now. He is the founder of Priests

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Speaker 2: for Life, which do incredibly important work defending unborn or

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Speaker 2: preborn babies. Frank, I met you a new us father, Pavone,

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Speaker 2: So I wanted to start with this because now you

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Speaker 2: are Frank. I guess you were always Frank. But we

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Speaker 2: leave off the Roman collar and tell everybody what happened.

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Speaker 2: I've never, honestly, I've never even heard of this happening before.

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Speaker 1: Well, Buck, you know, usually it happens when priests do

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Speaker 1: something very very wrong. But yeah, I've served as a

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Speaker 1: Catholic priest for thirty five years, and for thirty of

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Speaker 1: those years, the last thirty years, I've been leading this

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Speaker 1: Priest for Life ministry full time work to work to

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Speaker 1: end abortion. And in doing that, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've got to be real about how we end abortion.

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Speaker 1: That includes getting involved in the political realm, and so

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Speaker 1: I've been very outspoken against the Democrat Party. Some church

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Speaker 1: leaders are really in tight with the Democrats, and they

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Speaker 1: just didn't want a priest saying the kind of things

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Speaker 1: I've been saying over the years. They've actually been trying

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Speaker 1: to limit my work for the last twenty years, and

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Speaker 1: it's been one excuse after another. You know, you try

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Speaker 1: to you try to follow what they're asking you to do,

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Speaker 1: and then they're always changing the goalposts. Basically. Then in

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Speaker 1: the end of it, at the end of last year,

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Speaker 1: some of these church leaders that oppose our were convinced

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Speaker 1: Poke Francis. They actually dismissed me from the priesthood, and

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Speaker 1: many even cardinals within the church are like outrage at this.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, you know, we do this for priests that

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Speaker 1: have committed terrible crimes, not for somebody who you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't like his message, and nothing in the message

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Speaker 1: was contrary to Catholic faith. They just don't like the politics.

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Speaker 2: But that's what I was gonna say, is that's what

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Speaker 2: I've heard of priests being kicked out for terrible things.

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Speaker 2: You said. I've never heard of a priest who was

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Speaker 2: was was anything you know, kicked out for effectively politics,

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Speaker 2: like partisan politics, was anything that you were espousing publicly

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Speaker 2: against church doctrine.

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Speaker 1: No, no, not at all. In fact, I repeatedly have

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Speaker 1: told them over all these years, if I've said a

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Speaker 1: single thing that's contrary to Church teaching, let me know

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Speaker 1: and I'll correct it. You know, I'm a believing Catholic.

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Speaker 1: I adhere to everything that the Church teaches, and so

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Speaker 1: but you know, they used the usual lines of attack. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we got to investigate your finance as well, whether it

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Speaker 1: was the audits that we get every year from independent

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Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is that, you know, for

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Speaker 1: the longest time the bishop I was under said that

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Speaker 1: So I had work that I was doing, but he said, oh,

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, the bishop is not telling you anything

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Speaker 1: But the good news is I'm able to continue this

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you about the pro life work

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Speaker 2: I just need to understand what is it that you

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Speaker 2: didn't do anything. What is it that you were saying

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Speaker 2: What were the issues that were making them angry?

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Speaker 1: Well, one of the things, for example, was President Trump's campaign,

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Speaker 1: want to be a faithful priest. I can't have an

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Speaker 1: But then they were mad at me again a few

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Speaker 1: I said to them, a why can't you be honest

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Speaker 2: Is that I'm going to need you explain something to me.

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Speaker 2: And now, since you know you're not in the priest

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Speaker 2: the see about this. But I really, you know, I

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Speaker 2: But put that aside for a second, doesn't matter for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that is really the big question because the

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Speaker 1: And you know, aside from that, I mean, I I

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Speaker 1: religious freedom, human sexuality, the family. I mean, these teachings

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Speaker 2: All of the all of the deeply anti Christian animus

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Speaker 2: Democrat Party in the left.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: And yet yep, and yet Catholics, by large measure will

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Speaker 2: I'm like, right, I'm like, what are you guys doing?

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Speaker 1: Noah, that's exactly right. And this is one of the

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Speaker 1: And yet their voter guides leave the voters with the

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Speaker 1: how many issues this this candidate lines up with about

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Speaker 1: not arithmetic, it's geometric. In other words, the right to

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Speaker 1: life is the foundation of every issue. Why is an

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Speaker 1: they have a right to life. Unemployment is important issue

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Speaker 1: because because there's a right to life. Stopping terrorism is important.

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Speaker 1: Economic issues are important why because they impact human life,

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Speaker 1: so that life is the foundation. You get that wrong

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Speaker 1: and the whole structure will collapse.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you about the life issue and

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Speaker 2: what your group priests for life. All right, let's just

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Speaker 2: for a moment here, take a breather. The Biden administration

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Speaker 2: is hell bent on spending money. They don't have you

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Speaker 2: pay off college loans without congressional approval. What are the

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Speaker 2: unintended consequences of spending like this? The most likely is

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Speaker 2: continued inflation and a dollar that's substantially less in our

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Speaker 2: near future. For some people, it's time to really think

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Speaker 2: about this one. Purchasing and owning gold. It's a currency

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Speaker 2: It's solid, it's a rare commodity, it has long term value.

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Speaker 2: When you purchase gold with some of the money you've

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Speaker 2: better financial shape over the long run. It's that simple.

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Speaker 2: Diversify today, call the Oxford Gold Group. That's who I

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Speaker 1: Now, there's a there's a massive disconnect here. A lot

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're the one that they have a problem

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Speaker 2: All right, Frank, telling me what is Priest for Life

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Speaker 1: You know, we played a big role with the Dobbs decision,

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Speaker 1: not just Catholics, anyone across America that wants to protect

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Speaker 1: these children and stop this crazy unlimited abortion can connect

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Speaker 1: with us. We'll keep them informed, will mobilize them, will

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Speaker 1: give them the information they need depending on where they live,

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Speaker 1: will inform them about the battles that are taking place

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Speaker 1: in their particular state. And we have a whole team

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Speaker 1: of people who travel and speak and train these activists

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Speaker 1: both on the ground and online. We help the churches,

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Speaker 1: will help families, will help pro life groups network with

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Speaker 1: each other. Those are some of the things buck that

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Speaker 1: we're doing at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Where's the website where shoud people go?

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Speaker 1: It's End Abortion dot Us dabortion dot Us, and folks

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Speaker 1: will find a lot of different branches of our ministry

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Speaker 1: what I mentioned, and also a lot of healing after abortion.

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Speaker 1: That's a whole other topic, but they'll find find help

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Speaker 1: there for people that are experiencing its pain. Dabortion dot Us.

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Speaker 2: Frank Pavone, appreciate you, appreciate your work, Thanks for being here.

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Speaker 1: God bless you back. Thank you