Father corapi health update

Sign in or Sign up today! We rely on you to support our news reporting. Please donate today. Related Stories. Recommended Shows Only On. Case Files. Only On. Pillars of the Church. Dominic Sunday, March 16, Update - Fr. From: Sue of Half the Kingdom Apparently, there was an email going around it is at the end of Sue's email with a rumor of Fr. Corapi's illness. Dear one in Christ, Greetings in the matchless name of Jesus Christ! I am writing as the message concerning Fr.

Corapi's health is actually a false rumor. After learning of it, I phoned Santa Cruz Media and they informed me that he has had the flu, but that is all. His decision to not travel for was one made outside of any health issues, which, at this point, by the grace of God, are not as represented in the email excerpt being forwarded and, for your reference, contained below.

Having said that, it is always a good and important thing to pray for our beloved priests. As Fr. John Corapi , a charismatic preacher who announced on Ash Wednesday that he had been accused of sexual impropriety and drug abuse. Ordered by his superiors in the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity SOLT to remain silent while the charges were investigated, Father Corapi complied for a few months before bringing the investigation to a halt by announcing that he intended to leave the priesthood.

But, Father Corapi promised, he would not be "silenced. He hinted broadly at plans surrounding the presidential election. Yet the election came and went, and Father Corapi was nowhere in sight. The primary season featured two Republican candidates, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, who were Catholics, and as the election heated up, Barack Obama's administration launched a frontal attack on Catholic religious freedom in the United States under the guise of advancing "healthcare reform.

The same was true in Fans of Father Corapi on social media especially Facebook expressed expectations that he would reappear to weigh in on the presidential election, especially after Hillary Clinton—a frequent target of Father Corapi's criticism in the past—captured the Democratic nomination.

But once again, Father Corapi was nowhere to be seen. Readers frequently ask if there are new developments in the strange case of Fr. John Corapi, and the truth is, there has been no word. After an initial flurry of activity, updates to Father Corapi's new website, theblacksheepdog.

It was replaced with a single white page remains, with just three lines of text:. Eventually, even that disappeared, and theblacksheepdog. My initial thought on reading Patrick's post was that perhaps Father Corapi had finally decided to submit in obedience to the direct orders of his superiors in SOLT , and had returned to live with them in the community while they completed the investigation that had been abruptly cut short. We know in his younger years he lived a sinful life, including cocaine use and spending a year in a mental hospital.

What happened with him in could range anywhere from him relapsing into sin or an infiltrating subculture of enemies plotting his demise. He could have succumbed to his old ways, or, in light of his past stay at a mental hospital, he could have been threatened by an infiltrating subculture with mental rehab as were many other priests.

He did start a website, since closed, under the name John Corapi minus his "Father" title for a brief period after departure. Criticism abounded even among faithful Catholics that he acted in disobedience no matter what happened. The entire affair seemed chaotic. It is my opinion that the quality of his talks particularly lost some sense of candidness and zeal somewhere in the mid-later s. But, before that, he was arguably the best preacher of his time. In June the Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Rene Henry Gracida, stated: "I believe that he is justified in not seeking to clear his name through a canonical process; at the present time such processes are very flawed in most dioceses.

Corapi and that "Church authorities Corapi's earlier talks often spoke candidly of a poisoned Church, including the hierarchy. We know that his theology was firmly grounded in orthodox truth. In re-listening to his stories, we can see that they are consistent with many others who have since come forward to describe improprieties, heterodoxy, and infiltration in the Church. Corapi's and others' accounts from years past are clues to what attention we should give to what warning signs.

He warned of an overlap of doctrinal and moral deviance. We must be alert to linguistic snakery that gives way to doctrinal and moral corruption.

It may be necessary to intensify sanctions regardless of whether a clergyman deviates even slightly from a dogma or commits grave sin.

In another talk, Attack on Unity , Fr. Corapi proposed the notion that a lack of understanding in Thomistic metaphysics and philosophy has resulted in a "downhill" trend in theology, because many teachers fail to understand the meaning of "being," for example.

Many are calling for a return to a more traditional liturgy and traditional Church decor and iconography. If doctrinal and moral faults are as intertwined as they appear, then the Church's solution to this crisis must include doctrinal correction in addition to a systemic correction of checks and balances.

If it takes a soft inquisition to purge any defiant, unbelieving clergy, so be it. Remember the famous quote from then Cardinal Ratzinger in The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. As the number of her adherents diminishes But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Joseph Ratzinger, Faith and Future, Time will tell if the Spirit wills such a purgation to shrink the Church and raise it again to "great power.

Decades have passed while several voices have cried out in the wilderness as did Isaiah or Jeremiah during tumultuous times for God's people. The time for purification of this scandal is overdue. Corapi's current whereabouts and status are difficult to ascertain. Related reading: St. Ryan T. Anderson's Truth Overruled on marriage between a man and woman. Austin Ruse on the science of fatherless or motherless children.