Father corapi update august 2012

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I remember watching Fr. Corapi when I just came back to the church in I was still at crossroads with church and Christ. I feel deeply in love with her.

I kept watching Corapi. I thought he was fun, bright and preached from his heart. He told it like it was. I could see that lots of people were putting him on this very high pedestal.

If Corapi was speaking truthful about his addiction problems then once again he has fallen into addiction. This time his addiction is to fame. Having this type of addiction brings all other kinds of addictions, as we can all see with certain actors, actress, along with the powerful and rich, but as a priest, especially Corapi, he knows better.

According to Corapi has been through these addictions before, therefore, he knows to turn his back on evil. If he finds it hard to resist he can easily reach out to his community. He is not the first priest to fall.

Many have fallen and many have gotten back up. Evil is everywhere…just take a look around you. We are all human, but when you decide to become a priest you take many oaths. I believe Corapi knew what he was doing was wrong, and made the decision to play both sides thinking he would not get caught.

It looks like Corapi chose greed as his Maser. But people still write me now and then wondering. You are disgusting for spreading this garbage! Do you know how dangerous it is to spread something you are not sure of? This is gossip!!!

Remove it!!! I just do not understand your anger and cursing. The author made it clear that this was 2nd hand information, why he trusted his source and that this post is in reply to repeated inquiries.

He was totally clear about what he was posting and why. The fact that Fr. Corapi himself, in what he has said and not said about these matters—really is what speaks the loudest. That Fr. Corapi is observed in public, not dressed in clerics, riding a Harley and not involved in local parishes is there something incredulously hateful if this is all true? I benefited from the teaching of Fr.

Corapi over the years and even made the effort to go to hear him in person. It is beyond sad that his actions are a scandal to the faith of many that relied on him and attracted disgrace to our Church. I do not track a list of the charges against him, I do not need to, I only know that many in the Church, in a position to know found credibility in charges.

How did Fr. Corapi react? Did he humble himself to Church authority, as his priestly vows would require? He has indicted himself by his own words and actions to me.

I admired the man I thought he was, but now I only feel sad for him and for those of us that relied on his teachings. But Christ remains. Thanks for the comment. Very good. Having read some noted Saints, like St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori and Bonaventure, both counsel that the heart of sanctity is obedience. Corapi taught so well for so long. He has personally seen, and knows others who have seen, Corapi riding around on his motorcycle.

As for the house, Corapi himself talked about living on a lake and having a boat. All I did was confirm what Corapi has himself already stated, and give an update that he is still there. I too have heard about Fr. Corapi from someone who lives near him…and yet his description of the life Fr. Corapi is living is very different from the one you were told! So where does that leave us?

None of us really knows what is going on with Fr. We have absolutely no proof that Fr. While I have no idea of the state of Fr. Corapi so fiercely. Please share, what is Corapi doing, then, that is different from what I said? Is he living in hairshirt in a cave offering penance for the Church and sinners like me? I would love to report that. You probably consider yourself a decent Catholic in communion with the Church and in a state of grace….

So I guess Fr. I choose not to reveal what was said regarding Fr. Corapi because 1 the person who said it did not intend for it to be blasted out over the internet and 2 any specifics I would give would be as unverifiable as what you have given.

Just one more note. The source to whom you spoke was very focused on Fr. Does this source and do you fret as much about the luxuries the overwhelming majority of our bishops — and indeed many of our priests — enjoy? How do you feel about the fact that so very many priests live not in rectories but own their own houses, condos, vacation homes?

How do you feel about D. Google it What about all the palatial residences of our bishops? Will you be devoting upcoming blog posts to exposing the lavish lifestyles of our clergy? It was just an example. Thanks for trying to give us some recent news about Father Corapi, but I totally agree with C. The devil indeed knows who he has to destroy and who he leaves alone to further his work. These facts tell us everything we need to know really.

And I will be eternally grateful to Father Corapi for giving me a greater understanding of and appreciation for the Faith and the Church, and I am so happy that I had the foresight to record so many hours of his work while I could, and that continue to help me and others.

I think it is a healthy discussion to have on how to handle the disappointment of losing a priest who inspired many of us. I was sad over the news of his conflict with his superiors and apparently his conflict within.

Now it seems clear that there was truth behind the allegations and for that all I feel is sadness. So, having an affinity for the old Father Corapi and Mark Shea may seem counterintuitive- but it made sense for me. Corapi, but I hope and pray for him to come back, come clean, and bring his obvious gifts back to the service of Christ and Church.

I would argue that what Mark Shea does on a nearly weekly basis with respect to Catholic teaching is far more damaging than anything Father Corapi was accused of doing, all the more damaging, since he does it with the tacit approval of an ecclesiastical newspaper. I cannot read this trash and that is what it is. Shea you are not fit enough to be called a Catholic, for you are a tin rattling fool.

And riding a Harley….. Nice try. I was saddened by the whole Father Corapi scandal and will continue to keep him in my prayers. Well, I must say some of these comments are right up there with the Manti Teo jokes! Much ado about nothing and certainly none of my business. One day, Fr.

I can appreciate and respect this approach. Through other sources, including one extremely vocal former evangelical blogger who shall go unnamed, I learned much more than I cared to know about the personal life of said priest.

Let us drop it, folks, and mind our own houses. Try to grow perfect; help one another. Be united; live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. Great reminder. Thank you. An ego that required ordination by a Pope. Commencement of a media business outside church structure. Aggressive marketing aimed at income, even a prayer for pay phone line. Choice of a lax community without experience in supervising priests. Exaggerated personal stories about contact with evil forces.

Leaving his buddy, father L, alone to hang after advising him to destroy evidence. He single handedly destroyed the faith of thousands. Better a millstone around his neck than what awaits him. I think he had honest intent but lost his way in a community that utterly failed to supervise him even slightly.

Because he brought that community great notoriety so long as his star shined very brightly. When they tried to rein him in — and there are lots of problems there — he bolted. I know the provincial for SOLT and the order well, and it is an order that really needs some close supervision from the Congregation for Religous Life. If not something more severe and permanent. Who would go through all those years of seminary and get himself ordained a priest just to take the faithful for the ride of their life?

I am convinced that at one point something went very wrong. In any event, it is a tragedy. God have mercy on Fr. He always seemed very genuine and upright up until about , then things began to change, rapidly. But that would mean like a 15 year con. I doubt it. And most of his money came from the legal settlement having nothing to do with his vocation.

I hope I am not muddying the waters here, but your assumption of the SOLT order needing more supervision seems like an astute observation. Corapi , and it was an awesome retreat. He was a good priest too, and he seemed committed and proud to be a priest. Dennis — First, yes, Emergency was awesome. And i know it played a big role in getting EMS programs accepted nation-wide. If nothing else, Jack Webb deserves much thanks for that. One of their more well-known priests just sort of died or disappeared recently.

I hope more priests like them enter SOLT; in years past they would have entered the Legion of Christ, which had its own scandal of course. I believe Fr. Corapi has entered a dark night. God has a unique plan for everyones sanctification. I suspect his next great epiphany, much like the one that lead him out of bondage the first time, will be to renewed humility through obedience. As Fr. When the Lord says the word, he will be healed. Shea wrote:I got the following update last night from a Montana resident who claims to be in the know.

So apparently you were not there and do not really know if this is true and it appears are only going on gossip from some FRC hater. And if it is true the bible tells us that the LOVE of money is the root to all evil. NOT having money. Sheila, et al. John A. Corapi owns property in Flathead County, Montana. My hearing was fine. I made him repeat it three times to make sure. What do you mean by that? We have to be up to date and people of our times.

We tolerate evil men! And watch out, the consequences are about to come home to roost. There are two Churches right now. Apocalypse Now 2 of 4, MP3 A religious sister I knew for years, forty-some years professed in an active order, marginalized because she was faithful to the Church. Still wore her religious habit. She also thought it odd that the ceremony was to take place on what she thought was the vigil of All Saints Day—midnight, Halloween in other words.

She hid in the choir loft. It involved witchcraft and lesbianism. Her reward for forty-some years of religious profession. And a good lay woman had to come and take her to live with her. Apocalypse Now 3 of 4, MP3 I sat in a room having dinner with a group of 10 priests two months ago.

I was a stranger there. Like sharks smelling blood working themselves up into a frenzy. And the hatred that radiated out of that room would frighten you. The parts on moral theology—ugh! They talk about sin! Never talk about sin. Talk about immature behavior. Talk about a psychological deficiency, but never mention sin. But the Bride of Christ is indefectibly holy and beautiful.

That is not alright with me, nor should it be with you. To Love the Church is to Love the Lord, MP3 I know many places right now where a lie is being taught that there is no such thing as original sin. That is a heresy. Jesus Christ is divine without any question. He is not merely human. He is fully God and fully man, true God and true man. Virgin before, during, and after birth. Without faith in that it is impossible to please God.

We have a better idea than God? I think not. And there are millions, possibly, who fall into that category. And you can go in many diocese and see it taught at the highest levels, from the chancery office down, including in our seminaries. And then you wonder why Father has a problem. Then you wonder why Father has a moral problem. In some cases, part of their life. And how are you going to preach against it, unless you convert, change your life? Corapi proceeds to then describe something like a competing subculture when he refers to "God's Church and Satan's assembly.

Corapi describes teachers in the Church who try to make "conscience" the primary driver of "morality" instead of Church teaching. We still see this. For example, in February , Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich stated in February that conscience must be the primary driver of morality instead of universal Church precepts.