Thanks. I saw where some people were referencing it, but couldn’t find the actual hymn. They were talking about our Facebook page, Crying for Corapi, and they said the page made them ill, we were vindictive, and they referred to the administrator as a “priest-hater.” Then one commenter said:
[name redacted] “Those NOT walking in a spirit that is Holy are crying for Corapi. Those walking in the Holy Spirit are rejoicing and moving onward with Corapi.”
That is sad, Netty. I saw nothing hateful on the Facebook page, just prayers for him.
I’ve seen the FightingIrishThomas get attacked for pointing out the disobedience even though it was just vigilant takes on par with Father Joe’s critiques, more or less. It is good that Shoshana and others caution others to draw the line on certain judgments, since priests have a unique vocation and graces. But I don’t know why Fr. Corapi’s actions are exceptional that one would be called a priest hater for praying for his repentance?? When possibly these people freely criticize the bad bishops on Corapi’s page if they are “liberals” or the bad liberal priests connected to the Democrat party at Notre Dame. If Luther was a priest, surely it is not out of bounds to question his behavior. Even with the St. Francis Assisi anecdote kissing the hands, St. Francis still rebuked the priest, the story isn’t that St. Francis condoned his sin, he was able to cut the sinful priest to the heart, and got him to repent by his gentle Rebuke. Given bsd’s comment referring to the haters as not knowing any better essentially this Proverb may apply to both
Corapi’s reception of his critics, as well as his pro-bsd, supporters
Proverbs 9:8
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you, Reprove a wise man and he will love you.
Seems to me that the priest that had his hands kissed by St. Francis, was wise enough to recognize his sins…
His facebook page (the BSD one) is now starting to get some scary stuff on it.
People are starting to write in church hymns, changing the lyrics to serve Corapi instead of God.
Weird! Who knows if that is for real, or his site is now having some form of astroturf??
Sounds too crazy for me to believe that Catholic fans of his would go that far.
It was turning a bit weird yesterday with folks, even Catholics, defending the total correctness of a possible affiliation with the protestant Skull Church. It seems the lack of the Eucharist was just no big deal to some who posted with pictures of Mary and claims of being devout Catholics. I hesitated to post here about that as it may have been a temporary “thing” that would dissolve. And its all speculation as we have no idea what the BSD really has to do with the Skull Church at this point.
I noticed that some regular fans were mostly posting on his old website for Fr. Corapi, and the old facebook page for Fr. Corapi, rather than on the Black SheepDog pages. Since the two old pages (with all the Marian references and lovely religious pics) went down for good yesterday, I figured there might be a clash as these folks had to finally stop following the BSD online or switch to the new, darker and distinctly non-Catholic flavored sites.
I agree
Sojo,
I 'm not sure if it was you mentioning how Corapi’s fame/notoriety, isn’t as far reaching outside of EWTN watchers, amongst the Catholic/Christian population generally from your own experience during the scandal. But this is a factor with skull church information. I know no one in my Catholic family , and Catholic friends from my parish know him. Only one of my siblings knows OF him, and when I mentioned his leaving the priesthood, he never even heard about it and wasn’t scandalized as he didn’t know him enough to affected by experience outside of the sadness of having a priest in scandal. If Corapi, does have plans and does have a connection to a guy at Skull Church. It doesn’t seem that farfetched that they would try to use him, to attract more to that congregation or whatever as well as whatever marketing schemes.
I guess one has to keep their guard up with his future plans.
You gals, Nette, Sojo, J Katherine et al, also mentioned Luther being apt, as well as some offchute happening. The one thing about Luther, compared to Corapi, is Luther had German Vassals situation going on and German financial politics aiding him as a pawn to undermine the Church’s influence. As well as the printing press at a time when it was new to exacerbate matters. The disobedience to superiors is where the comparisons stop. Corapi is not a theologian, and he also himself insisted he was just a good preacher, he also relied on his conversion story so much for his DVD appeal. How does that work out now that that inspiring repentance is gone?
In light of how Corapi is not as well known as he & his fans MAY think he is, with all this savvy businessman stuff.
Corapi might just go the way of Fr. Cutie, while not formally rejecting Catholicism he’s becoming a protestant speaker by default. That his former fans and remaining ones are fighting amongst each other can’t be too good for his business prospects
as he has plenty of watchdogs now; I think Corapi’s possibly prideful self-centered actions in continuing with a public ministry of some sort deceive him & whoever is helping him to run the bsd page.
Thanks for responding. Makes sense I guess because the Skull Church is in Montana. I assumed John Corapi just wanted to pursue a shock-talk radio program.
We’d be safer if he did that, but not really. While in disobedience he shouldn’t be teaching anything publicly. Given his background and hypocrisy lurking, how can he call anyone out? Let alone with matters Church related.
Then it will feel like I got a raise!