Father Corapi had been highly visible for several years as a speaker and preacher, including a program on the Eternal Word Television Network. EWTN took his show off its schedule shortly after his suspension, saying it would not knowingly put on the air a priest whose faculties had been suspended.
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Good news, thank you for sharing It does seem to me that some form of persecution is seemingly almost a mark of discipleship of Jesus. Certainly, persecution is almost the common denominator of our saints. We had a priest in my previous parish. I had known him from another parish. He was a great priest in Mass celebration and homilies - and great in the Confessional too.
The pillars of the parish in my previous parish complained, to the boss in the archdiocese, that he was too friendly with children apparently and the Archbishop abruptly transferred him to another parish on the other side of the city - and he is still an active parish priest, with no other accusations against him to my knowledge.
All that all of that proved as far as I was concerned, is the the pillars of my previous parish ran the parish and right up to the top in our archdiocese. You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Restore formatting. Only 75 emoji are allowed. Corapi joined the United States Army on April 16, , serving as a clerk and typist, and was discharged in January Corapi has stated that he enlisted to join the Special Forces but was injured before completing his training.
After his discharge in , Corapi studied accounting at Pace University and graduated in He joined an accounting firm in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he audited hotels and casinos. A year later, he took a position with the Nevada Gaming Control Board as an investigator.
He later operated his own bookkeeping firm for about a year before moving to Los Angeles, California, in where he became a real estate agent.
In the early s, Corapi has stated that he was making a six-figure income in condominium conversions while living in a waterfront home in Oxnard, California, and owning a Ferrari GTS and a foot yacht. During this time, he began to attend parties involving sex and illegal drug use. Corapi spent three years wandering the streets as a vagrant following his mental breakdown. He eventually changed his life, escaping homelessness and illicit sex and drugs.
Corapi says that Mother Teresa stood behind him at his ordination and that he saw a vision of the Virgin Mary smelling of lilacs on that day. Corapi earned a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the University of Navarre.
In , Corapi curtailed his public appearances for reasons of health, but continued to produce audio and video programs from his studio in Montana.
He completed and taped several conferences in , including at San Antonio, Texas, St. Louis, Missouri, and Cincinnati, Ohio. More recently, Corapi has preached sermons on the dangers of socialism. Corapi filed a qui tam False Claims Act lawsuit against Redding Medical Center cardiologist Chae Hyun Moon after Moon informed Corapi in that he was in immediate need of triple bypass surgery, but then told Corapi that the procedure could wait three weeks.
Corapi decided to seek other medical advice and it was found he had perfectly clear arteries. Corapi ultimately went to the and filed the suit that was the basis of an FBI raid and a multi-year investigation into Moon's practice. The United States Department of Justice reached a settlement with four cardiologists and Tenet Healthcare , the owner of Redding Hospital, during , in part due to Corapi's initial complaint.
In March , Bishop William Mulvey of Corpus Christi instructed the SOLT religious community to appoint two independent priests to investigate allegations by a former employee that Corapi had been in a relationship with her and is a drug addict. Corapi denied the allegations as false and said the process was flawed. Corapi filed a civil suit against the former employee for libel and breach of contract.
On June 17, , Corapi announced that he would no longer be involved in public ministry as a priest. There are certain persons in authority in the Church that want me gone, and I shall be gone They can't prove I'm guilty of the things alleged because I'm not, and they can't prove I'm innocent because that is simply illogical and impossible My canon lawyer and my civil lawyers have concluded that I cannot receive a fair and just hearing under the Church's present process.
The Church will conclude that I am not cooperating with the process because I refuse to give up all of my civil and human rights in order to hold harmless anyone who chooses to say defamatory and actionable things against me with no downside to them. I am, indeed, not ready to be extinguished.
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