A Well Reasoned and Balanced Appraisal of the Father John Corapi Case (Catholic Caucus)

A good Catholic (respected!) writer friend of ours (on the Net) said in regard to calumnies and fraudulent priests, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Read what Fr. Jenkins has to say in this regard. Corapi was not forced away from SOLT. He has been disobedient to them and has so far refused to go back.

If you don't want to believe Fr. Joe (he lists SOLT's statement points as well), that's your own business of course. Anyway, here's the link: http://bloggerpriest.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/solt-press-release-on-father-corapi/

Corapi was not forced away from SOLT

His choices were as he himself described them: to be put indefinitely on ice or to leave SOLT and fight in civil courts. He chose the latter. With that his debt of obedience to SOLT ceased. Of course SOLT did not force him out, they decided to put him out of circulation. When he instead resigned, they slandered him.

Observe too that the hounding of Fr. Corapi that is taking place on the Net is never about disobedience to SOLT. It is rather to spread innuendos about his character - sex, drugs and darkly hinted at "liturgical practices" -- which innuendos SOLT provided. It is when a slanderer is confronted directly on his slander that he or she pulls out the vaguely defined "disobedience". But there is no disobedience. Disobedience would be to stay in the order and not do what the superior tells him. There is a fight for the truth in the course of which Fr. Corapi left the order that betrayed him.

Which part of Fr. Jenkin's blog do you ask me to comment on?

I've already covered all this, annalex, and left you with a great link in Fr. Joe Jenkins.

Bottom line, sometimes people need to hear the truth (in this case from "the dog" himself) before they'll believe what's going on. So listen up to his messages via his website, is all that I can suggest.

the truth

Exactly. Rather than calumnies and innuendos.

If SOLT had been in the spirit of Our Blessed Lady as they are supposed to, they would have given Fr Corapi a dispensation to defend himself in court, instead of slandering his name.

If SOLT had been in the spirit of Our Blessed Lady ...
Why are you aSOLTing and inSOLTing this Order? You got a problem with warnings in general? Do you rip down RR gates too? A train is a comin' and it ain't gonna stop for you, so look to your left and to your right, listen up (wake up!) and be careful ... Corapi ain't listenin' to no one anymore ... most especially Our Blessed Lady ...

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