No and its none of our business anyway.
I think the OP’s concern stems from the fact that Fr. Corapi was originally placed on administrative leave by his superior at the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity due to allegations that (among other things) he violated the society’s promise of poverty by owning over $1 million in real estate and vehicles.Nowadays a Harley jacket is probably a bigger indicator of your socioeconomic status than of anything esle.
As I said, it’s more of socioeconomic indicator than anything esle. The other brothers were probably wearing Honda jackets.
The “jacket alone” would be the least of troubling signs for this poor troubled soul. Even in his “notoriety and epic heydays” as a evangelizing and exhorting priest (before much about his “problems” had come into the public") …he always seemed (IMHO) to take so much of the burden of getting us in the “pews” (his audience etc.,) to understand and to accept and to live the Catholic Faith in its fullness…on himself…instead of leaving it all in the hands of the Holy Spirit…the only real “shaker and mover”…when it comes to faith and conversion. He just seemed like a guy running a marathon who thought he was running a sprint race…too much wasted energy and to much “gut it out” for spiritual success and holiness…when it is and always is God’s grace alone that counts.
This doesn’t make sense to me. You’re saying he was working too hard? Is “running the race too hard” a problem with this man?
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How do you know that? Are you privy to all the meetings going on behind the scenes?
Err…not at all. I’m “privy” to news (and old news at that). First that was newspaper article and secondly its a year old! Do you know what has happened since then?
ncronline.org/news/people/corapi-i-wont-leave-montana-live-order
I wasn’t trying to say that he’ll never return, only that he has thus far ignored direction to do so.
Look, I really have nothing invested in this. Yes, it’s an old article; yes, he seems to have disappeared since there’s been no news about him in the past year; no, I don’t know what has happened since then. Some folks here seemed to have no idea who he was or why anyone would ask after his jacket, of all things. If you have some information you’d like to share, then go ahead, by all means. All I did was save folks the extra step of Googling him. He didn’t resign from the priesthood,he resigned his priestly ministry,in obedience to his superior at S.O.L.T. He was told by the founder of S.O.L.T. to preach publicly and to make his own money to support himself and the society. And I think he is still a member of S.O.L.T. but he has not returned to the home office in Texas because he would not be treated justly by his superior,who made charges against him publicly. He would have had to remain silent about the charges against him,drop his lawsuit against the woman who accused him,and perhaps never get a chance to defend himself judicially in the Church.
I read the column and I totally disagree with it. EWTN is not Catholicism gone wrong. EWTN is a good and orthodox Catholic television channel. Why anyone would say it is “Catholicism gone wrong” I don’t know unless they have some sort of hidden agenda or something.