Following Corapi’s example, we announce a major change in our lives!!!
What? Too soon?
Following Corapi’s example, we announce a major change in our lives!!!
What? Too soon?
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June 21, 2011 at 3:53 am
As Catholics we have to laugh at some things or else we will cry at everything. Mad props!
June 21, 2011 at 4:36 am
I prefer to think of myself as the Golden Retriever of God (I have owned them and own one now)….intensely loyal but easily distracted:)
June 21, 2011 at 4:42 am
german rotweiler or blacksheepdog?
June 21, 2011 at 4:46 am
Very, very funny!
June 21, 2011 at 4:53 am
Recently I have been reading a life of the Chafetz Chaim, a famous Jewish rabbi of Poland who died in 1933 and who brought a lot of notice to himself by writing quite well about "lashon hara"- the evil tongue. Listening to your video brought him to mind.
Once in his old age he was in Moscow talking to a wealthy businessman in his hotel room, while in the next room his assistant was composing an important telegram. The wealthy businessman began to make some coments about a mutual acquaintance, but the Chafetz Chaim interrupted him by saying that just as every word in the telegram is being carefully weighed because every word will be paid for, so in Heaven all our words on earth are weighed and will be paid for.
In other words, there is nothing to be lost by silence and prayer, but- admittedly- it is difficult to fashion a blog from these.
June 21, 2011 at 5:48 am
The voice reminds me of Richard Nixon giving his "Checkers speech"……maybe that's where the Black sheepdog got his idea.
June 21, 2011 at 6:06 am
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! mad cash!!!!!!!! hilarious and terribly so!
June 21, 2011 at 6:31 am
You people are merciless. Do you realize what a Priest is?
June 21, 2011 at 6:37 am
Thank you so much! This whole issue is getting way too much uber-serious attention. Yup – we need to pray for Fr. Corapi, but thank you for helping us laugh a little at the self-conscious and self-absorbed intensity of the whole thing, while you clarify the truth of what is actually happening.
OK, everybody, move along. There's nothing more to see here. (But thanks for popping the balloon for us, and giving us a good laugh.)
June 21, 2011 at 8:58 am
I think the video is very funny and characteristically clever of you. And I understand and agree with the points you make with it. However, I also think it is a mistake. It's not that it's too soon (as if the passage of time makes something more or less objectively right or wrong)… it's just that it encourages us to behave our worst with regard to our brother, John Corapi. Do we despise him now? Have we received the heavenly all-clear to rip him apart? Look, I know he's a public figure and has made public statements and that makes him fair game blahblahblah. But it's been a vulturefest on these blogs and it's getting more and more uncomfortable to make the rounds.
Did I laugh? Of course. But I feel rotten for it. Call me a goody-goody if you will people but I'm starting to feel like I'm in high school again. Edgy is in and I'm not sharp enough to match wits so I stand like a fool wishing I were the wallpaper every time I open my mouth. But it's so incredibly sad. The whole thing. He's a brother. And we're a lot of rotten sinners, too, who just happen to think that his mistakes justify our fun.
Please don't start ripping me apart guys and gals. I genuinely hurt for this guy and am wondering if our desire for levity justifies how we are proceeding. Perhaps I'm completely off base and the good Lord would advise me to lighten up if I would just listen to Him. For good or ill, your video is everywhere. I would love to have a fraction of your talent but I'm glad I'm not the one who made it.
Your sister in Christ (and reluctantly honoring your request not to post criticism anonymously)
June 21, 2011 at 10:17 am
I think a good gradual zoom out of their eyes, with an image of taco bell on their corneas was in order. Thanks for the laugh guys!
June 21, 2011 at 11:47 am
You are bad men. Funny, funny, funny…but very very bad.
June 21, 2011 at 11:53 am
Now THAT was funny. Sad situation, but nonetheless, funny. God bless! 🙂
June 21, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Melody
We are trying to point out the absurdity and illogic of Corapi's video, lest anyone be fooled by its argument.
June 21, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Let's say your wife ordered you to move out of the house and never speak to your children again — but that you had to give her all your money for you to continue to be called their father — then your analogy could be correct.
Has Fr Jenkins gone yet? No. But Bishop D'Arcy was retired coupla years ago. How about Joe Biden? He's meetin w/the pope. It's Bishop Martino that's gone.
How about Joe Feuerherd editor of the NCR which you're associated with? "Feuerherd said he would vote for Barack Obama, "bishops be damned," after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved voter guidelines that cautioned against casting ballots for politicians who, like Obama, support abortion rights." Did he lose his "Catholic" newspaper job? Nope. Wasn't he just buried as a Catholic and hailed in all the "Catholic" newspapers? You betcha!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2011-05-27-Feuerherd_Catholic_obit_ST_N.htm
Guess it's only some people who have to obey the bishops–and only some bishops that have to be obeyed. And only on certain issues.
Corapi seems to be fighting to keep going w/his ministry. It is a bishop who has ordered his ministry silenced (Canon law can't decide Corapi's case – but it can be trotted out to justify handing over Jesus to murderers). He must turn over his property to his order — according to a rule that did not exist when Corapi joined the order. Note the treatment of Corapi vs. that accorded to Sr. Carol Keehan and diocesan bishops, cardinals, priests and popes.
June 21, 2011 at 2:35 pm
You hell hounds are damn cute.
Keep nipping 😉
June 21, 2011 at 2:37 pm
You nailed it!
June 21, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Anon,
Joe Feuerherd was from the NAtional Catholic Reporter dipstick!
I left your comment up, even though its cowardly anonymous just to show how silly you are.
June 21, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Move on folks, there's nothing to see here. Nothing to see unless it's morbid fascination with one man's fall from grace. Sad, sad, sad in everyway possible.
June 21, 2011 at 3:26 pm
In other words, there is nothing to be lost by silence and prayer, but- admittedly- it is difficult to fashion a blog from these.
Or sanctimonious comments.