Maybe I missed it, but … SOLT alleges Corapi paid ‘the lady’ 100K to sign a silence contract. Have we seen any proof of this payoff ? Checking Deposit slip, an uncashed check from Corapi to her, etc.
Again SOLT made no statement of “corruption” or “bribery” - those are your terms.
“Cut to the chase”, I’ll keep that in mind. I’m sure in 5 years down the road, when you’re a Forum Master/Elder and I’m a Veteran Member, we’ll be best of friends and will both have long forgotten about the challenging beginnings of our budding friendship.No difference to me.
I grew up with six brothers and seven uncles.
My only sister and I do not speak like most women,
or so we have been told. If you think of my words
as more “cut to the chase” (to quote my brothers)
rather than as “aggressive or harsh,” you will have an
easier time with my speech patterns. PROBABLY.
PS -do any people say that you’re easily aggravated?
Thank you. Very sweet of you to say so.“Cut to the chase”, I’ll keep that in mind. I’m sure in 5 years down the road, when you’re a Forum Master/Elder and I’m a Veteran Member, we’ll be best of friends and will both have long forgotten about the challenging beginnings of our budding friendship.
Remember, Fr. Corapi lifted this “sheepdog” imagery from a Lt. Col. in the Army, who was comparing military and police to the sheepdogs in society, keeping the more gentle citizens from being harmed. This is not the same imagery that Jesus uses, because Jesus himself is the shepherd and never did he compare even his Apostles to sheepdogs. Be careful bringing that imagery into a religious setting, it doesn’t work. (Which Fr. Corapi never seemed to realize…)
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As posted above, the SOLT never accussed anyone of curruption. Second, it is very inappropriate for anyone, including religiuos, to expect or even suggest that a superior has to produce “evidence”. This is not how religious communities operate.
It is always a pleasure learning from you.As posted above, the SOLT never accussed anyone of curruption. Second, it is very inappropriate for anyone, including religiuos, to expect or even suggest that a superior has to produce “evidence”. This is not how religious communities operate.
The Council of Trent mae it very clear that religious are exempt from the authority of bishops and the laity. It did this to avoid this very kind of thinking, that superiors and communities wee to be accountable to the outside world for their internal affairs.
Unless a civil law has been violated and that civil law is morally justificable, religious communities are governed by superiors at their sole discretion. The only person who has the right to ask for cancelled checks and other documetns is the Holy Father or his delegate. At this point in time, neither the Holy See nor anyone appointed by the Holy See is involved in this case nor there need be anyone.
The Cathohlc Church operates on the Principle of Subsidiarity. This means that problems are resolved at the lowest level of authority. In this case, it’s the major superior. I’m stunned that no matter how many times we have stated this on this thread, people are still asking for information that none of us, including me, have a right to have and making suggestions that none of us, including me, have a right to make to a religious superior.
The law and the theology of the Church is very simple. The religious superior is the highest ranking authority in a community. Unless he violates moral law or canon law, his voice is the last word that must be accepted by the members of the community and those who are associated to it or interested in it. The superior does not have to consult anyone to make decisions. Unless the constitutioins of the institute dictate that he needs the consent of his council, he is free to discern on his own and to hand down a verdict and a mandate that must be accepted at face value.
The only person who has the right to request a hearing is the person involved, that would be Father Corapi. Unless he does so, the word of the superior stands and you are guilty as charged by your superior. The superior, in this case, called in two consultants. He did not have to do this. Moral law and canon law do not require this. I can’t speak for the constitutions of the SOLT, maybe they require this of the superior. My point . . . we must refrain from crossing a line that we may not cross…
Fraternally,
Br. JR, OSF
I still don’t like the inference that because I am a law-abiding citizen who has not been called to serve in the military or be a police officer (I’m a female), I am a “sheep.” The “sheepdogs” seem to be putting themselves into a special category which sets them apart in a rather conceited way, IMO. I am insulted by being called a “sheep,” and the language Col. Grossman uses to describe us “sheep” is also pretty rude.
That’s because you are misunderstanding it. It is not meant to be taken based on your job. It is meant to be taken based on your outlook on life.
I know what it says, I read the whole piece several times. I am not misunderstanding it. He is saying that some people are called to be protectors and some are just the sheep, the “pretty blue eggs” with goo inside. The messages are as clear as day. I do not begrudge warriors their calling, but I do not think that most of them think of the rest of us as sheep and I think adopting this frame of reference was one of the things that got Fr. Corapi where he is right now.
It is not about warriors, it is about regular folks who have that attitude and who view the world that way. That is the point.
That’s not heresy. It’s just being silly.I believe he has put the Bishops into the wolves category, which I think makes him heretical, no?
Nevertheless, a priest is not a policeman. I agree with Therealjuliane that while this might indeed be how police and soldiers think, it does not resonate with what you read from other priests and religious (canonized or not). We are all called to “fight the good fight” and “preserver to the end”. Yes, Jesus uses the metaphor of sheep, but that is because without Him we have lost our way. I don’t think military metaphors work well in religion.
Exactly the question. Santa Cruz media is not creating new technology, it is not a defense/government contractor, and Fr. Corapi was not supposed to be a celebrity in the Hollywood sense.
I have no plans to read the quoted military view on this.