[NYer]

Biography || Curriculum Vitae

Father is a perpetually professed priest member of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity.

The pillars of father's preaching are basically three:

• Love for and a relationship with the Blessed Virgin Mary which leads us into a vibrant and loving relationship with Jesus Christ.
   
• Great love and reverence for the Most Holy Eucharist--from Holy Mass to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
   
• An uncompromising love for and obedience to the Holy Father and the teaching of the Magisterium of the Church.
   

Father Corapi's audio and video series on the Catechism of the Catholic Church entitled The Teaching of Jesus Christ has been widely acclaimed and is used throughout the world as a course in religious education and catechesis.

The essence of Father's message is the essential message of Jesus Christ. It is Good News: a message of truth and goodness, love and mercy. It is above all else a message of hope. Father is available to preach retreats, missions, and conferences:

Rev. John Corapi, SOLT
P.O. Box 9440
Kalispell, MT 59901

Telephone: (406) 751-1900
Fax: (406) 751-1912

[NYer]

Fr. Corapi's Conversion Story - Condensed Version on YouTube

[VOA]

He quite seriously said death would be better than having to
endure the next likely president for four years..

Nothing like being able to have a laugh in dark times!

I do occassionally catch his presentations on EWTN and will be
hoping for his recovery.

[ladtx]

I had not heard about him being ill. I will pray for him. I know what he is going through having in the last 2-3 years had 2 skin cancers, a merkel cell carcinoma, diagnosed with non-alcoholic cirrohsis, hypertension and diabetes. It has only made my faith stronger. My wife and I really enjoy watching him on EWTN. His explanations of the catechism made it much easier to understand. God be with him.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I’m not Catholic, but I’ve always enjoyed and benefited from listening to Fr. Corapi. I didn’t know he was ill. Prayers for his recovery.

[fatima]

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.

Amen.

[VOA]

Added note: Corapi does seem to have the “luck” to become involved in
some complicated medical stories.

I don’t recall all the details, but IIRC, he was a patient that helped
expose a group of surgeons that were doing unnecessary heart surgeries
in California.

Wikipedia doesn’t go into detail, but does seem to confirm my vague
recollection:
“
According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, Fr. Corapi was
instrumental in exposing an alleged scam in which patients were advised
to have unneeded heart-bypass surgery [2]. The coalition described him
as a “priest-turned-whistleblower” and a “a key figure in a probe over
whether heart surgeons had performed hundreds of worthless heart operations”.
“
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr._John_Corapi

[arfan]

15 years ago, I was attending a Catholic evangelization school in Florida, which was interesting because I was not Catholic.

One of the priests that was to attend, and give a series of talks broke his nose just before coming down to Florida. So he brought this young, fresh out of seminary priest, Father John Corapi.

Father John was instrumental in my conversion in a major way.

I came home from Florida, and gave some tapes to my girlfriend. I said “You gotta check out this priest. He’s like no one else I’ve ever heard”.

Later, after I had come into the Church, and my girlfriend and I had married, we had our first daughter. There were some complications, and the baby was confined to the incubator, and my wife to her room.

I heard that Father John was in town giving a retreat, so I called the rectory of the Church, and left a message for him to pray for my wife and daughter.

A few hours later, my wife hears a knock on her hospital room door, and a familiar nasally Hudson New York accent saying “Can I come in – it’s Father John”.

He actually got to hold my daughter and bless her, before my wife ever got to hold her.

We used to call him up when we had theological questions we could not answer. We called it “dial-a-theologian”.

Then Father John started to be used by God in a big way, and we lost touch with him.

Be assured of our families prayers for him.

[laweeks]

I just love to listen to him. I’m almost as spell-bound as when Bishop Sheen used to give his lectures. What a legacy and what a man!

May God protect him so we can enjoy him for many more years.

[Patriotic1]

Prayers up...

[bboop]

Fr. Corapi is one of the bright lights on a channel FULL of bright lights. I’ll add him to my prayers. thanks for the post.

[Salvation]

Thanks for all this info.

[Barnacle]

He’s quite a guy.

[onedoug]

Prayers for Fr Corapi.

[Petronski]

I’ll pray that heavenly voice of his is spared!

[AlaninSA]

Absolutely amazing preacher...best around today...period.

God, please comfort Father Corapi and aid him in fulfilling Your plan.

[topher]

He may actually be in Saint Mary's Hospital, which is run by doctors in the Mayo Clinic.

ex-President Ronald Reagan, when he fell off his horse circa 1989, went to the Mayo Clinic, but actually stayed at Saint Mary's Hospital.

The story behind the Mayo Brothers' Clinic and Saint Mary's Hospital is that there was a devastating tornado. The Mayo brothers' offered to be doctor's at the hospital, but asked the nuns to start the hospital. Hence you have both.

I imagine Father Corapi might need only stay at the Clinic and may not need the Hospital -- both have extensive facilities.

He is quite the spiritual warrior...

God bless...

[topher]

He may actually be in Saint Mary's Hospital, which is run by doctors in the Mayo Clinic.

ex-President Ronald Reagan, when he fell off his horse circa 1989, went to the Mayo Clinic, but actually stayed at Saint Mary's Hospital.

The story behind the Mayo Brothers' Clinic and Saint Mary's Hospital is that there was a devastating tornado. The Mayo brothers' offered to be doctor's at the hospital, but asked the nuns to start the hospital. Hence you have both.

I imagine Father Corapi might need only stay at the Clinic and may not need the Hospital -- both have extensive facilities.

He is quite the spiritual warrior...

God bless...

[therut]

I love this guy. And I am not Catholic. He is a great teacher and man of God. Wish there were more like him.

[LadyDoc]

Parathyroid tumors are not that rare, but very hard for docs to diagnose, since their findings are subtle.

A lot of these people are sick and you are stuck trying to figure out why. The treatment is to remove the thyroid and hope the parathyroid causing the trouble is in the part you take out.

In Mayo clinic, they probably have the more sophisticated scans to identify where the actual tumor is located.

Personally, I don’t like Coriapi: He talks wonderful but seems to smirk too much and reminds me of a demagogue.

But I will remember him in my prayers.

[GeorgiaGuy]

Prayers for Fr. Corapi, of course. Now, a question. He lives in Kalispell? How did he manage that? It’s a really beautiful part of the world!