It is highly doubtful Father Corapi will ever be able to return to his former faculties as a priest-teacher of the laity at least in any media-driven forum.
He is deeply wounded by his past, his addictions, and recovery itself can be its own private hell. These life experiences of his can not be instantly healed, as if this were all simply a matter of dealing with an uncooperative, rebellious adolescent.
Certainly he is not capable of racing to a microphone to explain himself and allay everyone’s morbid curiosity about his degree of contrition and the intimate details of the Hell he has experienced, laying out his sufferings for us to peruse and examine, as if shopping cantaloupes.
It should be his spiritual, physical and mental health we should be concerned for, rather than hoping for a press conference to please ourselves. He is after all very ill and wounded.
It is highly doubtful Father Corapi will ever be able to return to his former faculties as a priest-teacher of the laity at least in any media-driven forum.
It is highly doubtful because.....
from the beginning of his priesthood he was embellishing and lying about his background and experiences and that was the root of his problems which led back to his addictions.
No, he will never be back as a public presenter. Too many lies and embellishments.
Morbid curiosity and intimate details? No, I don’t think so. Many know more than they ever wished they knew to begin with. Just an honest apology would be welcomed. Considering the height of his popularity, it should be expected.
I’ve always been concerned for his well being.
That being said, he made a very public spectacle of himself and was publically and openly defiant towards the Church and insinuated that the Church was after him and was after him because he was the lone orthodox voice in the wilderness! Bull crap!
His very public downfall caused a lot of strife within the members of the Church. He was happy to allow people to fight with each other over him. I was publically calumniated on the internet for having the audacity to disagree with his actions! If he has indeed come back into the fold, he should try to at least fix the damage that he has done to the Church by making some kind of public statement. I don’t need to see a press conference nor do I really want to.