Fr John Corapi has Announced in a Video Message that he is Leaving the Priesthood

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TheRealJuliane said:
What a lot of people don’t realize is that alcoholism is a progressive disease, and even if the alcoholic has been sober for years, if they go back out and start drinking again, the progression is rapid and obvious. I had a hard time understanding how that could be true, but have had it confirmed many times. An alcoholic can be sober for years, even decades, but if he or she goes out again, the disease causes rapid deterioration, as if it had never been dormant. That may be what we were seeing with Fr. Corapi.
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One need not go out and begin drinking heavily after years of sobriety. Cumulative and continuing brain damage can appear later in life long after all drinking has stopped.
 
catharina said:
One need not go out and begin drinking heavily after years of sobriety. Cumulative and continuing brain damage can appear later in life long after all drinking has stopped.
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Yep, very similar to boxers and football players.
 
whm said:
Yep, very similar to boxers and football players.
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Great comparison.

Shoshana’s question of yesterday,
could a medical problem be in effect in Father’s life (?),
is a great question and highly relevant IMO.
 
guanophore said:
Devastating, but sadly, as some have said, not entirely surprising. I have worked with hard core addicts for over 30 years, and it sounds like a relapse. It also sounds like it has been sliding in that direction for some time. I was concerned about the slurred speech on the announcement also, because I know that sudden neurological damage can set in when a person gets older after they have used heavily earlier in life.

I have been challenged by a little exercise that I was taught years ago by a Methodist Pastor. He taught us to take the verses in Corinthians and substitute our name for “love”. It is a very good measure of where I fall short, and I have had to try this again today, as I was quite nauseated over this news. It goes like this:

1 Cor 13:4-7

4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Now the exercise:

1 Cor 13:4-7

4 Guan is patient and kind; Guan is not jealous or boastful; 5 Guan is not arrogant or rude. Guan does not insist on Guan’s own way; Guan is not irritable or resentful; 6 Guan does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Guan bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

The hardest part for me right now is the last portion, in bearing, believing, and hoping. May Mary his mother, who called him, rescued him, and led him to the priesthood, by the grace of God do so once again.
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What a wonderful exercise Guan! I think if we all practiced it a few times a week we would be better for it! I remember Father Corapi when he was in Sacramento working. I attended several of his presentations and was truly inspired. I am praying with all of you that he has help in dealing with his addictions and decides to stay and fight with all his might so he may stay in service to our Church. I hate all of the “I told you so” attitude that I’m reading on different sites concerning FC. To lose such a dynamic teacher and defender of the Faith is very sad.😦
 
catharina said:
One need not go out and begin drinking heavily after years of sobriety. Cumulative and continuing brain damage can appear later in life long after all drinking has stopped.
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I didn’t say “heavily drinking.” Although most alcoholics, when they go back out, do drink heavily. Any return to drinking will set off the progression of the disease which is usually put into remission by the avoidance of alcohol. If an alcoholic has been drinking for a long time, the damage is not reversible and may in fact, continue in spite of the removal of alcohol. But many alcoholics do survive for many years when they are completely abstinent.
 
TheRealJuliane said:
I didn’t say “heavily drinking.” Although most alcoholics, when they go back out, do drink heavily. Any return to drinking will set off the progression of the disease which is usually put into remission by the avoidance of alcohol. If an alcoholic has been drinking for a long time, the damage is not reversible and may in fact, continue in spite of the removal of alcohol. But many alcoholics do survive for many years when they are completely abstinent.
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I didn’t mean to imply that you had said ‘drinking heavily.’
Rather my point is that one need not go back to drinking at all
to have the damages wrought by alcoholism become more evident as
the years march on. It seems that we are in agreement about that.
 
SOLTs announcement should surely now end all speculation about Father Corapi. For me the warning bells were ringing, especially in recent times but you always want to give people the benefit of the doubt and FR. Corapi was no exception. I sincerely hope his early preachings were genuine and his entire priesthood wasn,t a charade…anyway God allows everything for a greater good as Father often told us. God is good, may his goodness shine on Fr. Corapi and may he return home to Our Lord and his Blessed Mother.
 
They didn’t do a good job on redacting her name. I can see it through the black.

Though i do not understand him. If she lied to the council then why not particpate in the investigation and clear your name at the same time suing her for the libel? I think you can do both. You would only be worried if you planned on changing your story in the investigation and were worried that the testimony might be used against you in the court. But if your story is the same then whats the problem?

But he was supsended for more than her allegations. his disobidence and other items lead to it.
 
The dangerous webs that are weaved when one attempts to deceive…
 
catharina said:
Terribly sad that an entire family is touched by this.
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This is getting really twisted.

So let’s see…We are going to deceive people and commit various evils of one type or another…but if you tell the authorities we will sue.

I pray he drops the suit.
He has nothing to gain from it anymore other then the destruction of another.
 
1holycatholic said:
The SNAP network? They’ve got such a giant ax to grind against the Church Paul Bunyan couldn’t pick it up. :rolleyes:
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All SNAP did was post it online. While they’re biased, what difference does that make?

And I found one line particularly sad:
  1. The effectiveness and success of Corapi’s ministry depends on his reputation and his position as a Priest in good standing with the Catholic Church.
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If only he acted as if he believed that.
 
I am 7 pages behind in the other running thread about John Corapi, the one about SOLT’s statement. I am current here, though, and have yet to see mention of yesterday’s interview with Al Kresta and Jimmy Akin in which we learn that John Corapi is not “John Corapi” but “Anthony Coradi”. I just feel like I am in the Twilight Zone here. His father is easily findable online, apparently married multiple times and died on 9/7/01. I have yet to find him, though (“Corapi”).

Here is a cached version of a page that was up and taken down. It lists some of the statements of the accuser.

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9NxrdaxW48AJ:rightsoftheunborn.blogspot.com/2011/07/father-john-corapi-accuser-and-things.html+john+coradi+accuser+things+know&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari&source=www.google.com
 
Wasn’t he already proven guilty (not legally) by SOLT’s fact-finding team?
 
I have no idea what that page is supposed to be suggesting, but I would like you to remove your post. None of that is relevant to the topic and Fr. Corapi is not charged with using a different name. It does none of us any good to go so far off into the woods as to start posting anything that is written about him.
 
catharina said:
Great comparison.

Shoshana’s question of yesterday,
could a medical problem be in effect in Father’s life (?),
is a great question and highly relevant IMO.
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Frankly, I would rather blame all this behavior on a brain tumor, but I don’t think it will be that easy.
 
LoyalViews said:
Wasn’t he already proven guilty (not legally) by SOLT’s fact-finding team?
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That’s a good question. I think more questions remain than are answered. E-mails, if only viewed from the recipient’s PC can be altered. Supposedly, there were some e-mails that “proved” his guilt. The folks doing the investigating weren’t computer experts, by a long shot, from what I could see.
 
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