Posted on 03/24/2011 8:57:20 AM PDT by Salvation
Wonderful. Thanks for those details. I remember the names but not all the details.
The man who killed St. Peter of Verona, OP,later became a cooperator brother (lay member of the first order) and is venerated for his holiness after his repentance and holiness of life.
St.Paul persecuted the nascent Church.
This is not about Fr. Corapi himself. I think he would agree you deserve better than a guy like him.
But what God does with those he saves - - - we don’t deserve something that good.
AMEN!! Praise Jesus And Hail Mary!
Free Republic need a ‘like’ button like Facebook.
I would rephrase what you said to mean that God uses many people as tools of His work. Clearly, Father Corapi has valuable tools to bring to the service of God, but not like the Holiness of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta or the great spiritual works of Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen van Thuan. Father Corapi's tools are more of this world...
I would differ with you that we deserve someone better than Father Corapi. It is more because of the overachiever aspect of Father Corapi's resume. I would consider that Father Corapi does have the sin of pride.
He basically has always achieved his goals. His goals may not have been very good, but he achieved them.
Even when he was on drugs and homeless, he still prayed the devotion of Three Hail Marys to the Blessed Virgin daily -- at least as best he could.
When he graduated from High School, he decided he wanted to be in Special Forces in the Army. So he spent 6 months training for that before joining the army. He achieved that goal, though in retrospect, he might reget it.
When he left the army, he decided to become a CPA. He was so successful at that that his Tax Person said he should buy a Ferrarri just for tax purposes.
Then he was so wealthy and successful, he started to mingle with the Hollywood crowd. A young, beautiful star took aside and introduced him to her friend (cocaine).
Eventually, he was ordained by Pope John Paul, but the Vatican may have had to get involved in certain aspects of approving of his ordination. There are certain things that precludes a person from becoming a priest.
Then there is the story of how he exposed insurance fraud in California that was bilking the Government of California as well as the Federal Government of millions if not billions of dollars.
He has been very successful in his vocation to teach people the catechism and to teach people the power of the rosary as a spiritual weapon. He uses his own US Army background to try to motivate people.
Few people have achieved as much as Father Corapi has in his life, but Father Corapi might have wished he had started early in his life as a servant of God. But God had a special roadmap for the life of Father Corapi, and how he is doing on that journey is more a question between God and Father Corapi.
He is an unusual priest, but the type of priest that allows other people to say: If Father Corapi, after being homeless and on drugs, can become a priest and do God's work, then perhaps I can become a priest despite my failings.
And, of course, anything that appears on the Internet, is considered to be authenic. Just as the letter that Dan Rather had about George W. Bush.
He normally receives thousands upon thousands of requests.
His Facebook page has about 170,000 likes at this point.
There is one problem with what you state: It will show unclassified information about Father Corapi, not the classified.
I have a former boss who was a Delta Forces Squadron Commander. Now, will I see if he was in Iran at certain critical times, or other very classified missions.
No, even if 50 years has lapses, I might not see what I might want to find to prove he was in Iran at a certain point in American History.
In my own life, I was a critical path for AN/SQQ-89 (submarine combat system for Aegis Cruisers, Aegis Destroyers and frigates). There are things I might like to know about my Security Clearance when I worked for GE, but I am not be allowed to view such information as it would be classified.
FOIA has its limits.
But if Father Corapi has claimed something he has no right to claim, I would back him clearing the air. Maybe now is a good time for him to do that.
Hopefully, it might somehow get through to him.
If he is wrong, he should offer an apology.
Having been involved in come classified things, I was once asked to participate in a non-event.
Is it possible that Father Corapi might have referred in some way to some non-event that he was ordered not to disclose operational information about? Possible.
There could have been some operation regarding the Vietnam War in this regard.
For example, people who might have been involved in the failed rescue of POW's in North Vietnam might not have served in Vietnam except for that operation. Yet they could claim some sort of service in Vietnam -- especially landing in North Vietnam in the dead of night to free American hostages.
Things that are classified will not be released unless they have been de-classified. The fact that Father Corapi has friends in the Pentagon might mean he has done some classified work of some sort at one time.
It is speculated in The Miracle of Hiroshima that the eight Jesuits helped to provide information about Japanese operations in Hiroshima. And after the war, when they were exposed to lethal doses of radiation, and nothing happened to them, they may have been told by the US Government not to comment on that...
That would be an example of German citizens who are Catholic priests being asked to do something classified (not say anything) for the sake of the security of the United States...
Bttt
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