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Since then Timothy Cardinal Dolan has reported that Fr. Pavone, after an apostolic visitation by the Congregation of the Clergy led to a request that he “assist Father Pavone with several necessary reforms”, had failed to cooperate with the reforms.

Fr. Pavone has a career-long history of failing to cooperate with his bishops, which Bishop Zurek characterized as a “defiance of my legitimate authority”. The National Catholic Reporter has regularly reported negatively about Fr. Pavone.

Were Fr. Pavone advocating for women’s ordination, or freedom of “choice” on abortion, it is likely the reporting would not be as negative. Fr. Pavone might be characterized as resisting "Vatican encroachment" and "episcopal tyranny".

Since Fr. Pavone does not direct Rachel’s Vineyard, which is run by Theresa Karminski and Kevin Burke who founded it, this is all an irrelevant sidebar.