What Fr. Corapi said.
Today!
“First it was artificial contraception, then abortion, then partial-birth abortion, then infanticide (all of which have been supported by many liberal politicians at one time or another, even some running for president) not to mention euthanasia, and outright killing of the disabled and sick. Actually, it’s even worse. Terri Schiavo wasn’t sick. She didn’t die from an illness. They killed her by starvation, a very cruel way to die.
Now it’s same sex marriage (no transmission of life, no fruit of natural love) and we call it inclusive and just. It is yet another nail in the coffin of a society that is clearly dying.
“All that evil requires to prosper is that good men remain silent.” The hour is late. We have had years to change course. Instead, we have obstinately refused and gone from bad to worse. May God have mercy on us, and grant us the courage and strength to act in accordance with that truth.” - Fr. Corapi, June 27, 2008
June 27th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Corapi also thinks 9/11 was a punishment from god. He has a flair for the dramatic.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Gerald - from God, not god. Did anyone ever think it was a blessing from God?
June 27th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
“Have mercy and grant us the courage and strength to act in accordance with that truth” -Fr. Corapi
A prayer we all should be praying …
June 27th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Father Corapi is in the Marian Movement of Priests. So behind what he said he knows what kind of times these are. He probably wrote this because of the Stock Market reports.
Obstinately refused is like an understatement maybe? The Church today if like powerless, it can’t get anything done. Maybe the Grace of the Pauline Year will change things.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Amen to what Fr Corapi said!
June 28th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Unless you wanna put god (Allah ?) on trial, I’d stick with the terrorists who flew the planes. Brimstone people almost wait for these things so they can wag the finger. The two loons Robertson & Falwell certainly knew it was really the fault of liberals, feminists and lesbians who’d provoked the anger of their god. Baal was a god. A god who’d kill innocent people as some form of collective punishment isn’t God.
You know your god is made up if he hates the same people you do
June 28th, 2008 at 4:47 am
+JMJ+
I don’t keep track of everything Father Corapi says, so I don’t know about the 9/11 statement, but I agree with what Terry has quoted here. Everything from artificial contraception to same-sex “marriage” is a Culture-of-Death nail in the coffin of any society foolish enough to embrace them.
June 28th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Fr. Corapi is the first person my saintly brother-in-law, Fr. William O’Toole, recommended to my brother who just converted from agnosticism (63 years) “quite suddenly” to Christianity. And my husband, Tom O’Toole, just wrote a piece that also states that time is of the essence in regard to today’s miseries, and I’ll leave that link, (if I may, Terry:)), here:
http://www.fightingirishthomas.net/2008/06/obama-getting-awa y-with-murder.html
St. Michael, the archangel, and Holy Innocents, pray for us!
June 28th, 2008 at 9:52 am
God bless you Fr. Corapi for being the great warrior you are!
Keep up the good work………
June 28th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Gerald,
We know that you no longer have no problem with same-sex marriage.
Does your position seem more secure by discrediting Fr. Corapi? I find this sort of ad hominem attack unimpressive. But it seems to be the bread-and-butter of your blog.
June 28th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Sorry, I meant:
No longer have a problem…
June 29th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Fr. Corapi is corect but he decline started with two things: CIVIL MARRIAGE and its siamese twin DIVORCE. These two things got the ball rolling. Catholics have got the wrong idea that a union between a man and woman is always legitimate. The only difference between a civil marriage and shacking up is the piece of legal paper that the State issues to recognize this. Catholics have forgotten that MATRIMONY is our sacrament in which the marriage is sanctified and made holy in the sight of God and through which Santifying Grace is conferred.
Thus, by turning a blind eye towards the injustice of civil marriage and its consequent dissolution through divorce- without God what is to actually bind these two in their concubinage- Catholics have allowed the progression to homosexual marriage. If the State has the power to recognize marriages, then it has the power to decide what constitutes marriage. And then the whole issue of contraception, abortion stem from the power of the State to legitimize these forms of Sodomy and murder - yes artifical contraception is a form of sodomy.
Catholics need to stop playing assimilationist and start living like Catholics. And this means more than being trendy and being a big fan of the “TLM” and going to pro-life marches. Do penance. Respect Holy Matrimony as a sacrament. Stop showing religious indifferentism by attending and supporting civil marriage and those who divorce and remarry. Learn to be and act Catholic.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Maybe 9/11 was a punishment or maybe not. But why is that so hard to imgaine? Are we to say with a straight face that the USA was an upright Christian country on 9/10? Are we above chastisement? Are we claim that we are God’s favorite kids? Are we to claiim that we are any better than Sodom or Ancient Rome on it’s funkiest day? I just don’t get the people who get so huffy about it.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Dubble-dipping - sorry folks. 9/11 if not the direct act of God was allowed to occur through the permissive will of God. If God does not allow a sparrow to fall from her nest without His consent, how much more would this apply to 3000 souls falling in two huge towers in a big city?
Did God stay the hands of the Muslims when they felled these towers and all therein? Obviously not. What were the reasons? Well that may be another topic. The hairs of every head in those buildings were numbered and it was clearly the will of God that this happened. One must read St. Augustine, City of God, at the beginning when he discusses the Sack of Rome - very similar to our day, very similar and what he wrote to his fellows at that time about that.
Book 1 http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120101.htm
June 29th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
This god concept reminds me of Sartre’s Le diable et le bon dieu - in the end god and devil are the same. So your god willed 6 million Jews to be murdered. 50+ million in WW II, and so forth. With a god like that, who’d need a devil ? And, as a special kicker, a good part of those who were murdered get to ‘go to hell’ on top of it all. That kind of god would make Hitler look like Orphan Annie.
June 29th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Good bye Gerald, I feel very sorry for you I am praying for your conversion. When you have had enough fun and the world’s allure has faded go to confession and make it right again, I pray God gives you that grace.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Gerald…How old are you? God does not will evil. You obviously do not know Him very well.