Anthony Padovano, a laicized Priest who founded CORPUS (clickHERE for further information), had been invited to speak, on two successive evenings in late November, 2000, at Saint Matthew's Catholic Church in San Antonio, as part of its Advent Mission. Much to his credit Msr. Mike Yarbrough, Pastor at St. Matthew's, disinvited Padovano once he became aware of his heterodox track record, given that Padavano has a world-wide reputation for promoting dissent with Church teachings on abortion, contraception, women priests and married priests, disunity in general and ideas that come perilously close to heresy (click HERE for information). There is a pretty good chance that his talks in San Antonio will likewise involve some heterodox ideas.

Although many of the individuals such as Padovano, predominantly creatures of the l960's and l970's, who were laicized because they got married are now of a "mature" age, they certainly are not of a proven life. In promoting their cause, they have repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to align themselves with other groups that promote dissent with Magisterial teachings and directives, primarily those concerning the ordination of women, and abortion, contraception, and sexual matters in general. In addition, Padovano has advocated an "impeachment process" for the Pope (1)

Anthony Padovano (CORPUS) and Frances Kissling ("Catholics" For A Free Choice) attacking the Church and the Pope at The Hague in 1999 Taken from the March, 1999, issue of Inside The Vatican (click HERE for subscription and other information). The caption under the picture reads as follows: "Some at the UN meeting claimed to represent the Church though dissenting from Church teaching on abortion. Frances Kissling (above), President of Catholics for a Free Choice, which supports abortion, was among these. Here she is shown with American professor Anthony Padovano, a former priest, at a workshop."

As you can see, there is no level to which he won’t stoop. In fact, at a conference at Emory University held July 28-August 1, 1999 Padovano said, "If there were a readmission of noncanonical priests and nothing else was changed, why would I go back (3) if I would have to be silenced on every other issue of reform?"; He furthermore said that, "a truncated ministry like that would be unbearably oppressive." He furthermore indicated that there is "virtual unanimity" among the members of CORPUS on that point (4). Those "other" issues of reform, of course, include changing Church teachings on abortion, contraception, women’s ordination, homosexuality, and the role and authority of the Papacy, to name only a few.

The "virtual unanimity" described above thus explains why Padovano signed, along with Theresa Lackamp, an Open Letter to Pope John Paul II placed in the September 6, 1994, edition of the New York Times and sponsored by Catholics Speak Out (CSO) and other groups promoting disunity (5) within the Church just before the opening of the UN Cairo Conference on Population and Development. A few days earlier, on September 2, 1994, CORPUS (of which Padovano was then still President) was a co-signer, along with other "Catholic" organizations that promote disunity (6), of an Open Letter in the New York Times to President Clinton, which supported the Administration’s endorsement of the originally-proposed Cairo Plan and openly ridiculed the Magisterium and the Pope, essentially portraying them as obstructionist.

More recently, CORPUS has been one of the groups that has endorsed the See Change campaign (click HERE for further information), sponsored by primarily anti-life groups, that was begun after the 1999 Cairo+5 Conference to try to revoke the Vatican’s official observer status at the UN. Given the Church’s role as an "expert in humanity" on many other pro-life (ie, peace and justice) issues besides just abortion and contraception, there may be some question as to who the obstructionists actually are. The "Catholic" obstructionists like Padovano, CORPUS, Call To Action and Catholics For a Free Choice that promote disunity within the Church are overly obsessed with sex, when there are other matters to tend to (and marital relationships, in fact, involve non-sexual matters and activities 99% of the time).