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To: fatima
Your comment:

You recommend a disgraced priest who was never an exorcist and felt up women.

My comment just before recommending the book (not the priest):

(Yes, I know. That doesn't change the fact that this is a really good book on the subject)

You will note that I endorse the book. I did not endorse the individual. Do you have specific issues with the book?


Do you remember Fr Benedict Groeschel, CFR?

You may recall he had any number of programs on EWTN, was a prolific writer that was published by OSV.

Then he had his gaffe in 2012.

If you go to the EWTN libraries...you will see NOTHING from Groeschel. If you go to the OSV publishing site...same thing.

Yes, he made a gaffe. An unacceptable gaffe.

But did that one gaffe make it necessary to turn him into an "un-person"?

Same thing with Fr. Corapi. Yes, he completely freaked out in the end. Does that mean that all of his work should be utterly scrubbed from the universe? Should he, including his early work, be vanished? Should he be an "un-person"?

Imagine if the early Church had turned Tertullian (who embraced Montanism later in life) or Origen (who embraced apokatastasis as he developed his theology)? What kind of a loss would that be?


I am not defending what Euteneur did. But if the book is solid, then it's solid. We can reject what the person did wrong without doing the 1984 trick of making them an "unperson", completely erasing them from history.

So if you have issues with the content of the book, please let me know what they are...

17 posted on 10/02/2014 6:34:06 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley

Father can answer for himself.He was never an exorcist.You want to throw everybody in-I’ll answer later.


18 posted on 10/02/2014 6:53:58 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: markomalley
Knock Knock He was never an exorcist.He made it up.He made up the book.You are promoting a book by a priest in hiding who has admitted to doing inappropriate things with women while he was an exorcist..
21 posted on 10/02/2014 9:52:30 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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