Catholic ping!
No, no, what was I thinking.........it must be a horrible, horrible conspiracy..... < /s>
I’m sick over all of this. And it keeps getting stranger & stranger.
I read earlier today that the accuser is trying to hawk Fr’s rosary to support her new online ministry, and what’s even more deceptive is that if one types .com instead of .us when seeking Corapi’s new website, it takes you to hers instead of his. Bizarre.
His audio statement from today pains me to listen to.
So, Fr Corapi leaves even before there's been a finding that the charges are credible complaining that he doesn't have recourse to the very things he would have recourse to if and when the charges were classified as credible? This is making no sense at all to me now.
If they find it's a credible accusation, a whole process kicks in which sounds like solid due process but for some reason Corapi, in spite of his own admission that he had plenty of legal advice, didn't know this? Very strange to me because he directly stated he wouldn't have those rights that this piece enumerates as being a part of the process if a charge is actually brought. Right?
Someone please explain for me why Fr Corapi was feeling shafted because in light of this it seems like he just didn't want the hassle of dealing with the situation.
let me offer this analogy for all the ever dwindling defenders of this man. suppose someone accuses me of cheating on my wife. now i think my wife will believe this person and not give me a fair hearing. i know i didn’t do anything wrong, but my wife just will not listen to my side of the story, she will jump the gun. what can i do in this case? well, it’s clear, the only option i have is to divorce my wife. yes, because i can’t get a fair hearing, i must divorce her. oh, i also must give myself a goofy nickname, write a book and get a website!
Okay, I’m getting tired of this but here goes, again.
The problem is not necessarily with Father Corapi but rather with the USCCB and their progressive/liberal ALINSKY tactics in order to protect their agenda. I hear nothing about the PRO-ABORT-CATHOLICS in Congress [http://www.canon915.org/list_people.php?figure_ind=P] because they, too, are ‘progressive/liberal’ .... I see what’s happening to Father Corapi as “Rule 13” in Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. And it takes the focus off of the USCCB’s failures to uphold the Church’s Pro-Life teaching and their refusal to own up to their own guilt and complicity in failing to promote and uphold the Teachings of the Magisterium.
They’ve had THREE months to discern what’s going on. Father Corapi has been placed in the position of having to do something because he cannot be waiting around for years for a resolution while the USCCB dawdles over his situation. Putting him “in community” while they continue to pussyfoot around is not going to solve the issue. But rather, it’s a way to shut him up! His ‘sin’ is exposing bishopric sins!
The USCCB fails to take today’s Gospel to heart. They’re too busy allowing sin to run rampant in their diocese and across this nation.
PS this is not an indictment against every member of the USCCB. There are some truly godly men doing their best against the tide of those ‘progressive/liberals’ who would silence them.
God have mercy on The Catholic Church in America.
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Stop judging, that you may not be judged.
For as you judge, so will you be judged,
and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye,
but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?
How can you say to your brother,
‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’
while the wooden beam is in your eye?
You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first;
then you will see clearly
to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”
This whole thing is really just dreadful.
Corapi never should have been ordained a priest, if his background is as depraved as he seems to delight in describing. He was rejected by several orders before this SOLT (not exactly the Dominicans) finally took him in desperation. Certainly, a man can have a past, sins, faults, and then convert. But there is a level of promiscuity and wildness that shows inherent bad judgment and a weak character. Corapi never was worthy of the priesthood he now carelessly abandons.
I know a couple and a priest who all know Corapi from years back. He was always in this to make money. All the insiders know that! He belongs to a religious order, yet he is not in community with them. He lives in his own luxury house. He is a multi-millionaire. His books and tapes and all this is a corporation. He is not a priest so much as a businessman using the priesthood as his vehicle.
He has a very cleverly cultivated a style like an motivational speaker, which now, no doubt with the help of advertising executives and image consultants, he has transformed into the “black sheep dog”! No man with a calling to the priesthood would make this act of defiance. His arrogance is very similar to Fr. Phleger, another “star” priest with his own unique following.
I give Corapi credit for one thing, he always preached the truth. And I believe it’s because he knows there’s a “market” for it among ill-educated Catholics starved for good doctrine. I never heard any talk of his above a sixth-grade level, but apparently there are thousands of people who benefit from that.
He is an embarrassment to the Faith and the priesthood and I’m glad he made a clean break and bailed out on his own, of his own free choosing, running with his tail between his legs, but head held high, apparently like so many previous incidents in his life.