Posted on 06/19/2011 7:39:09 PM PDT by annalex
Please post you prayers for the success of Fr. John Corapi in his new apostolate.
This man is involved in a difficult transition and needs our prayers.
May the Lord be with his spirit, now and forever.
Amen brother!
“That is not how this works. You accused someone of falsehood and hypocrisy, so kindly cite Fr. Corapi and point out what is false teaching and hypocrisy, on this thread, or refrain from your slanders.”
Well said annalex.
I’ll put him on my prayer list, right after Christopher Hitchens.
Get lost, please.
That is odd. What does Fr. Corapi and a militant atheist without a brain have in common, precisely?
They’re Catholic. Most of them don’t have a clue about their revered religious organizations but they have strong opinions about them anyway. Thus you get this stupid stuff.
PS, I’m catholic too, but a convert and one who has seen a few of these organizations up close because I get around.
SOLT isn’t a religious order. It’s not that big and old. There are a number of steps an organization of the faithful have to go through to reach “religious order.” And the rules have changed since Vatican II also. Most of the newer and smaller organizations are NOT religious orders. Many of them will never be.
PS. Most parish priests don’t belong to a religious order but are ordained for the diocese in which they work (or the one from which they’ve been traded-sort of like baseball players). They do NOT take vows of poverty. Thus most of the clergy most catholics have ever met are under poverty vows. Indeed, some priests are quite wealthy and some of them live rather well, with extravagant vacations being the rule not the exception.
That is one factor: Fr. Corapi's evident financial success. Another is his fighting personality, that once you slip begins to come across as arrogance. Third is the attitude of obedience, ingrained in the cradle Catholics of older generation, -- the same kind that accepted Vatican II withoput a peepsqueak.
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