True, very Clintonesque i’m sorry to say.
For instance, SOLT said in their statement that “a woman, well known to Fr. John Corapi, mailed SOLT a signed letter detailing allegations of Fr. Corapi’s sexual activity with adult women, abuse of alcohol and drugs, improper sacramental practices, violation of his promise of poverty, and other wrongdoing.”
Corapi responds by saying he didn’t have an inappropriate sexual relations with her, with the accuser.....which at a glance seems to be a strong, unequivocal response until you look carefully again at the SOLT statement. The accuser alleged “sexual activity with adult women” which does not mean that she was one of the women. So his response does indeed seem nothing more than a clever skirting of the issue. Nor does he address the allegations of cohabiting with a prostitute or of abusing drugs.
And as to finances, it is one thing to be financially independent and quite another to have “legal title to over $1 million in real estate, numerous luxury vehicles, motorcycles, an ATV, a boat dock, and several motor boats” as the SOLT statement claims.
I remember going to his website a while back and seeing that he was charging something like $9.95 a month to be a subscriber so that you could hear a weekly sermon by him. In addition he was selling his tapes and books and other merchandise. Nothing particularly wrong with that except i looked around the site and never saw anything about how the money (at least some of it) was going towards charity or missionary work or something of that sort.
That and other tidbits i read about him at the time, such as perhaps exaggerating his military service, gave off warning signals to me about him. Then with the drastic change in appearance (coloring his beard and even his eyebrows) and a somewhat strange interview he gave on EWTN with Fr. Pacwa (sp?) a year or so ago — saying that he had spent a year as a patient in a mental ward when he was younger, and how he is now laying awake at nights bathed in sweat worrying about people trying to harm him, etc. — i can’t really say this has come as a great shock to me. Still it is sad especially since so many people (like my mother, for instance) looked up to him and received much spiritual nourishment from his preaching.
he’s a saavy businessman don’t you know!!
what a sleazeball.
“True, very Clintonesque i’m sorry to say.”
Carefully parsed and weak, to say the least. He seems to be trying to manipulate the situation, but he has no cards left to play. Sadly, it’s impossible to continue to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Sorry, Father, but it’s time for you to retire.