Fr. Corapi placed on Administrative Leave Following Accusations

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If these allegations turn out to be false, does anything happen to the lady who filed the complaint?
 
dfp42 said:
Corapi has been placed on administrative leave and has had all of his priestly faculties removed.
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I know we have a couple of brothers here who have been posting. What does the above mean? “priestly faculties removed”

That sounds so omninous to me. 😦
 
Wasn’t St. Gerard falsely accused?

We should all remember Fr. Corapi in our daily rosaries and divine mercy chaplets. I for one believe in his innocence!
 
wild_thing said:
I flat-out don’t believe the allegations…and I am not one to ordinarily make hasty judgements in matters such as these. I’ve been around too many guilty people. But the Truth, in this instance, will set him free. I will pray for him and this woman who is accusing him.
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I do not believe a word of it. It is a sad fact, however, that priests seem to be fair game societally. When the facts reveal his innocence (and I think now, frankly) the name of the accuser must be revealed and Fr. Corapi should have full legal recourse against her. Somebody has to take a stand and show that false allegations can not be made with impunity.
 
ByzCath said:
There are any number of ways he could have released this. He could have just said that he was taking time off, he could have said that he has been placed on leave (by the way I have not found anything in Canon Law that is called “administrative leave”) without giving the details of what the former employee claims he did.
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He could have, but then how would that look when the situation became public, or an out of court settlement was demanded to keep this information quiet. For the innocent, there is no better response that to meet an accusation head on.
 
Fr. Corapi,

I KNOW you are innocent and I will pray for you! You have done more to educate me on the faith than any 12 years of Catholic school ever did. This is just Satan at his best and we see right through him. You stand your ground! We love you Fr. Corapi!
 
I am sick and sad at this news. Father Corapi was in the hands of the devil and then he escaped. Satan must be after him to get him back.

I will be praying the rosary for Father Corapi! I absolutely do not believe any of this - I think it is someone with a grudge trying to hurt him.

And I am angry that the Church handles accusations in this way, out of fear that the media will get wind of something and play it up all over the place. The media has all the power in this nation and it’s WRONG.

:mad:

God bless you Fr. Corapi, we are praying for you! May the saints flock to your aid!
 
Fr. Corapi may well be innocent, and I hope he is. But for those calling for the accuser to be revealed, that is just plain ignorant. Consider the possibility that she is telling the truth and is a victim here…should she be subject to the scrutiny, and being called a liar by many of you? The fact is Fr. Corapi is human being…prone to the same sins all of us are. He is not God. When a person is accused of murder, or robbing a bank, or some other serious crime, they are not allowed to walk free until proven guilty. They are held in jail until the process sorts itself out, and a person is found Guilty or Not Guilty. The Church is taking the same prudent action. These are serious allegations and the Church can NOT make the same mistakes as in the past, even if it does not involve minors. Placing him on leave does not convict him…it simply protects the failthful, Fr. Corapi, and the accuser during the time of this investigation . Its time to put personal bias asside and see the reality of the situation here. I personally am thankful for the Churches swift and prudent response, and hope their investigation finds Fr. Corapi innocent. But it is completely wrong to crucify the accuser when none of us know the truth.
 
iamrefreshed said:
Having been a sinner and very likely still terribly ashamed of the way he used to be Fr. Corapi is probably very hurt by these accusations.

I’d give him a pass on his statement.😉
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I’m with you on this. I would say, he has every right to state the way he feels. I detected no resentment toward any one person in his statement. He was complaining about the current policies of the CC as far as I could tell.
 
TheRealJuliane said:
I am sick and sad at this news. Father Corapi was in the hands of the devil and then he escaped. Satan must be after him to get him back.

I will be praying the rosary for Father Corapi! I absolutely do not believe any of this - I think it is someone with a grudge trying to hurt him.

And I am angry that the Church handles accusations in this way, out of fear that the media will get wind of something and play it up all over the place. The media has all the power in this nation and it’s WRONG.

:mad:

God bless you Fr. Corapi, we are praying for you! May the saints flock to your aid!
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I do not think the Church does this because of the media. They do so because to have an accusation against someone and to leave them in their position where they may act again raises the amounts that need to be paid out in the eventual civil lawsuits if the individual is guilty of the accusations.

Usually, in my experience, they do not put priests on leave unless there is something that seems like the accusation could be credible. In this case I think the “credible” part is that this is an employee that worked closely with Fr Corapi. Credibility in no way means guilty.
 
Seamus_L said:
I’ve gone back and read Father Corapi’s statement on the matter and i couldn’t agree with him more. If this is the new standard procedure for dealing with claims against priests (and it appears it is still the word of one individual) it now means that no priest is safe from the wildest of accusations.
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Hitting the nail square on the head here.👍 If these are allegations that his Bishop says in his statement are to date NON CRIMINAL, and if they find no criminal behavior, they need to sue this woman for libel. Our priests are sitting ducks at this point. And how many can we expect to be entering our seminaries with no protection?..NOT MANY.
 
I’m with Hosdog on this.

I hate to see such a fantastic priest being accused of such behavior for just a multitude of reasons.

It appears there is now Canon Law in place for these types of accusations. Fair? Perhaps not. But it allows for equal treatment. Is this not what should have been in place YEARS, and YEARS ago? Would our church be suffering less if in fact, real abusers were properly dealt with? Would the faithful have suffered less, perhaps exposed less, to real abusers if they were properly handled?

Sadly, I think we are in the middle of being served our cake, and wanting to eat it…

I should hope that FC, if/when found clearly innocent, has a defamation law suit brought against his accusser. IF falsely accused, this is not only causing him pain and suffering, but as we can see, there are now charity events incurring expense for this. This person is stirring a pretty big pot.

My gut is that he’s innocent. I hope I’m right.

And in the end, I still want REAL victims to be able to come forward. REAL victims need to know they won’t be lynched for being a victim that won’t stand for their treatment. We can’t get into a mode, of he’s so awesome that he couldn’t possibly do such a crime. A mode that we were clearly in as a society years ago, that allowed for abusers to take advantage of poor policy.

I suspect that FC made the announcement to prevent it from being sensationalized by left wing media. I think it takes the fun out of a Bill Maher expose, for example, if the priest in question announced that he’s been accused, and will endure the investigation. The only way these news casters will get to have any fun at the Churches expense is if FC is found guilty. And even then, it would be weak. What will they say… Yeah, a guilty man said he was innocent, and the church investigated and found out he lied about that too… Whatever, that’s just not as fun. What possible faux commercial could Bill make up from that? Additionally, it excuses FC from his lack of appearances as REQUIRED, as opposed to his people hemming and hawing as to why he can’t make this event or that event. He needed to be upfront about it.

Anyhow, many prayers for all involved. I truly hope we find that he is in fact innocent.
 
ByzCath said:
I do not think the Church does this because of the media. They do so because to have an accusation against someone and to leave them in their position where they may act again raises the amounts that need to be paid out in the eventual civil lawsuits if the individual is guilty of the accusations.

Usually, in my experience, they do not put priests on leave unless there is something that seems like the accusation could be credible. In this case I think the “credible” part is that this is an employee that worked closely with Fr Corapi. Credibility in no way means guilty.
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I agree. Moreover, I would point out that we don’t know what more the official(s) who put Fr. Corapi on leave did to assess the credibility of the accusations. Fr. Corapi’s statement indicates that he has known of the accusations for more than a week. He does not tell us exactly what he was accused of, who decided that he should be put on leave, how long that person or persons looked into the allegations before bringing them to him, or any other information that we would need to make a judgment as to the wisdom of the decision. We should assume they had a good reason to take the actions they did, at least until we have some reason to think otherwise.
 
Hosdog said:
Fr. Corapi may well be innocent, and I hope he is. But for those calling for the accuser to be revealed, that is just plain ignorant. Consider the possibility that she is telling the truth and is a victim here…should she be subject to the scrutiny, and being called a liar by many of you? The fact is Fr. Corapi is human being…prone to the same sins all of us are. He is not God. When a person is accused of murder, or robbing a bank, or some other serious crime, they are not allowed to walk free until proven guilty. They are held in jail until the process sorts itself out, and a person is found Guilty or Not Guilty. The Church is taking the same prudent action. These are serious allegations and the Church can NOT make the same mistakes as in the past, even if it does not involve minors. Placing him on leave does not convict him…it simply protects the failthful, Fr. Corapi, and the accuser during the time of this investigation . Its time to put personal bias asside and see the reality of the situation here. I personally am thankful for the Churches swift and prudent response, and hope their investigation finds Fr. Corapi innocent. But it is completely wrong to crucify the accuser when none of us know the truth.
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It is a fundamental right in American jurisprudence that the accused has a right to face his accuser. The accuser is not a minor. SHe did not accuse him of assault. Stand up and testify or shut up. Whatever he is accused of is apparently not illegal therefore this is a civil matter. SHe has no rights to protection. Sorry. That’s the way it is. You can’t just ruin somebody with impunity. It’s called libel and is a tort.
 
pnewton said:
He could have, but then how would that look when the situation became public, or an out of court settlement was demanded to keep this information quiet. For the innocent, there is no better response that to meet an accusation head on.
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Exactly. I see nothing wrong with the way he “outed” the news himself. And like I and several others have said before, it just doesn’t seem like it’d be in his nature or personality to do otherwise.

Fr. Corapi is very big on obedience to the Magisterium and to his superiors, but at the same time he’s also been very vocal about things he sees wrong with the Church today. Or rather, with the ways that some bishops/diocese/parishes, etc. are organized and with the way they handle things. I’ve always thought his points on these matters were very valid. (Such as, for instance, relieving parish priests of most of the parish administrative duties they have to perform so they can consecrate on providing the Sacraments to their parishoners. Or, the way he’s spoken out against the strain of relativism and liberalism that is poinsoning many seminaries and parishes he’s visited.) I think it wouldn’t be like him to keep quiet if he thought that there was any injustice going on in the way this was being handled. I bet he’d be saying the same thing if it was anyone else, not just because it’s happening to him.
 
JRRTFAN said:
It is a fundamental right in American jurisprudence that the accused has a right to face his accuser. The accuser is not a minor. SHe did not accuse him of assault. Stand up and testify or shut up. Whatever he is accused of is apparently not illegal therefore this is a civil matter. SHe has no rights to protection. Sorry. That’s the way it is. You can’t just ruin somebody with impunity. It’s called libel and is a tort.
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I’m sure Fr. Corapi is well aware of who is accuser is and what exactly she is accusing him of. He certainly has a right to face his accuser, but that doesn’t give us the right to know who she is or force her to come on CAF and air accusations.

ChadS
 
JRRTFAN said:
It is a fundamental right in American jurisprudence that the accused has a right to face his accuser. The accuser is not a minor. SHe did not accuse him of assault. Stand up and testify or shut up. Whatever he is accused of is apparently not illegal therefore this is a civil matter. SHe has no rights to protection. Sorry. That’s the way it is. You can’t just ruin somebody with impunity. It’s called libel and is a tort.
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This has nothing to do with Canon Law or religious life. While this is true for civil and criminal cases in the United States the same does not always hold with Canon Law, religious life, or for private institutions.
 
JRRTFAN said:
It is a fundamental right in American jurisprudence that the accused has a right to face his accuser. The accuser is not a minor. SHe did not accuse him of assault. Stand up and testify or shut up. Whatever he is accused of is apparently not illegal therefore this is a civil matter. SHe has no rights to protection. Sorry. That’s the way it is. You can’t just ruin somebody with impunity. It’s called libel and is a tort.
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This is the way I see it as it stands so far. I would also think, according to his superior’s statment, that if she were to accuse him of taking liberties without her consent, or if there were others that she claims that this happened to, she should have stated it at the beginning. If he were using drugs that were illegal, and who really knows that, that should have been stated as well. I think she might not have a rock solid case in court otherwise. In fact, if she or others come out with some illegal action after the fact, Fr’s lawyers would probably have a field day. Realizing that this is the CC we’re talking about, however, they have not been so aggressive in their defense in the past. These priests (and there are many more besides Fr C that we are talking about here)*** are also citizens of the US, and have rights.*** If the Church doesn’t pursue this in an (lets just call it) assertive manner, (maybe agressive is too severe) then they are putting their priests in a gun shooting range without armor.

As it stands right now, if Fr. is guilty of anything, it seems according to the Bishop, it is not anything illegal but “unbecoming to a Catholic Priest”. I would think he could actually sue her for libel. OK so I will have someone “remind me” that it was HE who made this a public matter…but I would argue that as soon as this woman wrote several Bishops, it became a public matter.
 
If every priest that was guilty of committing sin was suspended from ministry, then 100% of priests would be suspended. I find it rather odd that there is such a rush to remove him from his priestly ministries, especially since the allegations are not involving minors.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there are many Catholics, including priests and bishops, who dislike Fr. Corapi because of his strong traditional teachings, and would be happy to see him put out of commission.
 
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