Thousands more are on parole or otherwise monitored by the state as registered sex offenders. In seventeen years in this prison seeing thousands of accused and convicted sexual abusers come and go — often serving short sentences due to plea deals — I have never heard of a single other case of someone being accused twenty or thirty years after the crime was alleged to have been committed. For accused parents, step-parents, grandparents, foster parents, uncles, teachers, ministers, scout leaders and so on, the typical length of time between abuse and a victim coming forward to report it has been measured in weeks or months, not years, and certainly not decades.
The passage of time seems to be a remarkable rarity in other cases of sexual abuse while it is the norm in claims against Catholic priests, and virtually without exception, monetary demands are central to the claims against priests.
But Father John Corapi was not accused of misconduct involving a minor. His sole accuser is an adult, and was an adult at the time the behaviors were alleged to have taken place.
Father Corapi was also not accused of committing a crime, so there is no criminal investigation, no arrest, no trial, and no forum in which evidence could be aired. There have been no clear answers, and this makes the case against Father John Corapi a Kafkaesque tale. Father Corapi is bound by obedience to observe certain rules.
He cannot exercise his priestly ministry in any public forum, and he cannot present himself in public as a priest. That is not only his right under both the U. Constitution and Canon Law, it is also what Catholics expect of him.
But if Father Corapi is barred from presenting himself publicly as a priest, then he is effectively barred from presenting himself publicly at all. Does anyone really expect him to treat the accusations against him as unconnected to the fact that he is a priest?
It is, today, his very priesthood that makes him and all priests vulnerable to false accusations. Being forced to pretend otherwise is to be effectively silenced. They point out that Father Corapi has remained silent since his initial statement, and there is a growing, uneasy feeling that his silence itself gives credence to the claims against him.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but administrative leave requires Father Corapi to be more like a sitting duck than a rolling stone.
Of course, time will tell though I am surprised that it hasn't told already. Father Corapi was too prominent of a figure, and the scandal was too widely discussed, for him to stay out of sight forever. But whatever has happened, I'll make one prediction right now: We have seen the end of the Black Sheep Dog.
Let us hope and pray that we haven't seen the end of Fr. John Corapi as well. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. To Timothy: the answer is that now Fr. Corapi is bearing very rotten fruit indeed, made all the worse by the fact that he "seemed" to be an angel of light. How many souls will now will leave the Church and be lost out of misguided loyalty to what appears to be a false prophet?
As the old Latin saying goes: Corruptio optimi pessima. We are first and foremost Christians and nobody is more important than Christ or his Church. It is human nature to latch on to those personalities who "tell it like it is" or say what we like to hear. Nonetheless, as the article demonstrates, there have been plenty of "warning signs.
Our Lord told the apostles to "watch and pray" in the Garden. It is so important to direct our intellects and wills properly. I would be very interested to hear anyone's hypothesis as to how Fr. Corapi's ministry was able to bear so much good fruit IF he was indeed living in sin. While some of the criticisms of Father Corapi's recent actions are valid,I would not yet assume that Father Corapi is guilty of all of the above charges until he has had his day in court.
I have heard that when corporate management people are terminated, it is often par for the course to have them sign broadly framed non-disclosure agreements to not speak critically of the corporation as a condition for receiving a termination settlement. I would wait longer to draw any definite conclusions.
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Two of the three were members of religious orders, and the third was a layperson. Two were men and one was a woman, he said. Father Corapi, 64, announced June 17 — two days before the 20th anniversary of his priestly ordination — in a YouTube video and blog posting that he would leave the priesthood. I accept that.
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