Update ping!
I just love Fr. Corapi’s sermons. He’s inspirational, and I often listen to him while mowing the lawn. I pray that he is found innocent and that they publicize that finding as widely as they publicized the accusation.
Thanks for the update. I have faith all this will dissolve into nothing. He’s just a high profile target. He needs to learn that he can never be alone with anyone. Somebody has to have his six.
After this was in place, a Hispanic priest from either South America or Central America wss accused of abuse.
The Hispanic people are very outgoing, so touching someone in a very innocent way is quite common.
What happened was that a 7th grade girl told her mother that the priest touched her.
What happened was that the priest put his arm on the girl's shoulder, and there were other girls who saw the incident and thought nothing of it.
But since the mother complained, the priest in question had to be moved to another parish.
It was the policy of the Archdiocese to relocate the priest regardless of whether there was any basis for sexual abuse.
The mother and the girl regreted their overreaction -- they were very sad at losing the priest.
That is the price the sexual abuse has cost the church. The fact the media has overblown this situation and they make mountains out of molehills just adds fuel to the fire.