tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post6999264129071932371..comments2024-01-09T15:49:37.273-05:00Comments on THE TENTH CRUSADE: Ba Ba Black Sheep, Have You Any Bull?TTChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-91705030947229662352011-07-06T20:39:40.430-04:002011-07-06T20:39:40.430-04:00To Ms. Scalia, ,Mr. Kandra, Mr. Shea, Ms. O'T...To Ms. Scalia, ,Mr. Kandra, Mr. Shea, Ms. O'Toole and Anonynous Guests <br /><br />1 Corinthians 13<br /><br /> If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.<br /><br /> And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.<br /><br /> And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.<br /><br /> Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up;<br /><br /> Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;<br /><br /> Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth;<br /><br /> Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.<br /><br /> Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed.<br /><br /> For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.<br /><br /> But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.<br /><br /> When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.<br /><br /> We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known.<br /><br /> And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.<br /><br />Charity seems the lesson...Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704944620839677383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-35868136397700148192011-07-06T17:29:42.781-04:002011-07-06T17:29:42.781-04:00Karen,
Thanks - but I assure you, it isn't hu...Karen,<br /><br />Thanks - but I assure you, it isn't hurtful to me. They can do nothing to me. Those days are long, long gone. I don't deserve any kind of characterization that comes from bravado.<br /><br />No.<br /><br /> I am an observer whose anguish stems from watching my Beloved and His Church being ravaged by thieves and the mentally and spiritually ill.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-47246617013909939852011-07-06T17:23:00.374-04:002011-07-06T17:23:00.374-04:00"It's stunning how divisive our Church ha..."It's stunning how divisive our Church has become - talk about diabolical disorientation! "<br /><br />Satan must be in his glory. This is what he works for and it serves his purpose.<br /><br />I wonder what Our Lord and His Blessed Mother think of us...talk about salt loosing its savor...<br /><br />VeronicaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-71634635866216303562011-07-06T17:06:59.193-04:002011-07-06T17:06:59.193-04:00Carol, you are right about the sick state of affai...Carol, you are right about the sick state of affairs....made the worse by ALL sides thinking that they are doing the work of Catholic Crusader. It's stunning how divisive our Church has become - talk about diabolical disorientation! I know that all of this must be hurtful to you despite your bravado. What you do is not easy but it is appreciated and necessary. We are all in this together, but you, more so. Thank you. That said, I bet you wish you stayed at the beach!Karennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-77225858549247129862011-07-06T16:54:20.565-04:002011-07-06T16:54:20.565-04:00The pastoral concerns of nurse Anne Wilkes with a ...The pastoral concerns of nurse Anne Wilkes with a sledgehammer.<br /><br />Creepy and sad.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-58781810696066762862011-07-06T16:43:05.256-04:002011-07-06T16:43:05.256-04:00Letters pouring in to the O'Toole's noting...Letters pouring in to the O'Toole's noting their concerns about me. That's what it was all about. Concerned Catholics.<br /><br />What a sick state of affairs everywhere you turn. <br /><br />Insane.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-20881079874831415472011-07-06T16:35:18.152-04:002011-07-06T16:35:18.152-04:00Jeanette,
All the posts from uncle ham/anonymou...Jeanette, <br /><br />All the posts from uncle ham/anonymous/you was about you getting letters pouring in to you addressing their concerns about me?<br /><br />This is the kind of nonsense I was talking about when referring to bullsheet.<br /><br />It wasn't about the merits of Fr. Corapi's case at all. It was about this kind of abusive conduct and bullying. It was and remains perfectly reasonable to hold fellow Catholics to the bar of having the facts on the table before we take up a crusade to paint a priest as guilty.<br /><br />Don't leave uncle ham, anonymous and others here, take them with you. i have had enough of it. Thanks.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-47182912470297449412011-07-06T16:31:37.800-04:002011-07-06T16:31:37.800-04:00Caroline,
No truer words...there but for the grac...Caroline,<br /><br />No truer words...there but for the grace of God...<br /><br />Let he who thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall.<br /><br />VeronicaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-89424600634010091392011-07-06T16:17:17.645-04:002011-07-06T16:17:17.645-04:00'Watch out, least we trip and fall ourselves.&...'Watch out, least we trip and fall ourselves.'<br /><br />That's a great word Carol,to remind us we're all only one bad decision from blowing it.Carolinehttp://www.bellofthewanderer.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-44358491778578596642011-07-06T16:17:16.827-04:002011-07-06T16:17:16.827-04:00I received a number of letters from people concern...I received a number of letters from people concerned about you; that is honestly the only reason I tried to post something (and I did not do so anonymously) that made sense in regard to Corapi on your blog. It's obvious we aren't going to be pals (and it's unfortunate nothing much I said made sense to you anyway; my fault, I'm sure). I'm sorry for having upset you. I will not be back.<br /><br />P.S. Tom would not come onto your blog. This was of my own doing.Jeanette O'Toolehttp://www.fightingirishthomas.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-32251972731551825842011-07-06T16:09:45.780-04:002011-07-06T16:09:45.780-04:00Carol,
Do you have any idea why these people are ...Carol,<br /><br />Do you have any idea why these people are antagonistic? <br /><br />VeronicaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-74957101423386874432011-07-06T15:53:08.280-04:002011-07-06T15:53:08.280-04:00Jeanette, Stop. Surely you and your husband can f...Jeanette, Stop. Surely you and your husband can find another body to land on and peck away at?<br /><br />It is truly sick to continue.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-48740614853278587412011-07-06T15:52:13.478-04:002011-07-06T15:52:13.478-04:00Anonymmous: This is not the way.Anonymmous: This is not the way.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704944620839677383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-80650431935941170622011-07-06T15:50:52.510-04:002011-07-06T15:50:52.510-04:00Jeanette: This is not the way.Jeanette: This is not the way.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704944620839677383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-46774567576360301222011-07-06T15:49:22.686-04:002011-07-06T15:49:22.686-04:00You said the accusers were engaging in "bulls...You said the accusers were engaging in "bullsheet." Innocent until proven guilty does not mean that we assume the accusers are "liars."<br /><br />You failed to show charity to the accusers as well as Fr. Corapi.<br /><br />And you were wrong!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-54231640762204988092011-07-06T15:46:57.065-04:002011-07-06T15:46:57.065-04:00Jeanette,
I beg your pardon, but isn't that ...Jeanette, <br /><br />I beg your pardon, but isn't that a straw man? <br /><br />I believe ten years of archives would contradict your assertion that I am beneath apology. <br /><br /><br /> I asked a legitimate question - what is it you believe I owe an apology for, and to whom?<br /><br />The man put on a good show. You had no facts to back up your crusades and your behavior in the com boxes has been bullying people into lowering the bar to your gossip threshold. (Including the anonymous comments you've been depositing.)<br /><br />People want facts and justice demands we give the benefit of the doubt to the accused. That's why a woman in Florida was set free. You've got to close the loop with facts. <br /><br />I have more constructive things to do than get caught up in managing your bullying.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-2980467677521224382011-07-06T15:40:36.287-04:002011-07-06T15:40:36.287-04:00Oh Sacred Head Now Wounded
http://youtu.be/RMFqph...Oh Sacred Head Now Wounded<br /><br />http://youtu.be/RMFqph991Ew<br /><br />Our Lord was "wounded in the house of a friend". Should we not be moved to prayers of mercy?Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704944620839677383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-6314137876850631212011-07-06T15:23:03.503-04:002011-07-06T15:23:03.503-04:00I guess you're not the type to apologize. Reme...I guess you're not the type to apologize. Remember to bring that with you to the confessional ... *wink, wink*Jeanette O'Toolehttp://www.fightingirishthomas.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-14394191577359907532011-07-06T15:19:38.587-04:002011-07-06T15:19:38.587-04:00What does anyone have to go on today? A statement ...What does anyone have to go on today? A statement by "SOLT" that can't be questioned? SOLT was in on it while they might benefit -seems their biggest issue now is that he's mortgaging his house. I'm waiting for this woman to appear on talk shows. Actually, why doesn't she go on talk shows? Surely 60 minutes or some such would give her some money... Really who's supervising anyone in the Church? Why is the Pope vacationing at Castle Gandolfo? Is he a king or somethin'? Jesus had no place to lay his head - all these million dollar nuns and cardinals make me sick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-28637440822751134412011-07-06T15:10:42.371-04:002011-07-06T15:10:42.371-04:00Why is it ridiculous?
Because up until yesterday,...Why is it ridiculous?<br /><br />Because up until yesterday, you had nothing to go on, and, because his appearance was your biggest conspiracy theory.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-29314015004262880262011-07-06T14:59:56.476-04:002011-07-06T14:59:56.476-04:00Jeanette, what exactly is it you believe I owe an ...Jeanette, what exactly is it you believe I owe an apology for and to whom?<br /><br />We agreed on the Euteneuer scandal but that was a much different set of circumstances. Fr. E did not proclaim his innocence. There wad no manifestation of Catholics demanding the color of his beard incriminated him. He confessed.<br /><br />Fr Corapi very forcefully professed his innocence. He manipulated the trust he built all these years to to very cleverly take on the persona of a crusader for falsely accused to give all of his other actions context.<br /><br />Why can't you just be honest and admit your bar was low and it was perfectly reasonable to set the bar higher given the history of his fidelity?<br /><br />I read your husband's piece and I thought it was among the most uncharitable and boorish pieces written on the matter. <br /><br /> The behavoir is beneath contempt as far as I am concerned.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-34973833053345597662011-07-06T14:19:37.123-04:002011-07-06T14:19:37.123-04:00Carol,
I bet you thought being a cult leader was ...Carol,<br /><br />I bet you thought being a cult leader was as easy as passing out the Kool-aid! (LOL!) <br /><br />It's a tough job, you have to deal with anonymous jackals who are hell bent on dragging you down.<br /><br />I was an agnostic as regards Father Corapi, even while he was riding high.I appreciated his defending orthodoxy. On the other hand, I never felt inspired by him whatsoever.<br /><br />You are under fire from cranks of the Right and the Left. The Unni-ites would like to paint Corapi as the scourge of homosexuals and therefore anyone who preaches the Truth about homosexual acts must be up to no good. An infantile, logically fallacious argument. <br /><br />For those souls who were converted (or brought back around to the Church) by Father Corapi,remember he was/is only an instrument. Grace can be delivered through even a degenerate human agent. <br /><br />A wonderful reflection of Alexander Solzhenitsyn brings out the point that even the most depraved and unlikely experiences can bring grace:<br /><br /> “Bless you, prison!” by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn<br /><br />“It was granted to me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good. In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel. In the surfeit of power I was a murderer and an oppressor.<br /><br />In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments. It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts…<br /><br />That is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me: ‘Bless you, prison!’ I…have served enough time there. I nourished my soul there, and I say without hesitation: ‘Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!’”<br /><br />–Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Vol. 2 (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 615-17.breathnachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12308036185276331387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-24362821016286710632011-07-06T14:09:36.190-04:002011-07-06T14:09:36.190-04:00Why is it "ridiculous" to ask you to sup...Why is it "ridiculous" to ask you to support your contention that these bloggers were engaged in convicting Corapi of whatever these accusations say before he was proven guilty? To provide quotes from the blogs that say "he dyed his beard thus he must have been having sex with women" which is the storyline you're claiming went down?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-13360500320827666662011-07-06T14:08:25.287-04:002011-07-06T14:08:25.287-04:00This whole issue goes far beyond Fr. Corapi, let a...This whole issue goes far beyond Fr. Corapi, let alone Carol. This goes to an essential aspect of priestly formation: due dilligence of clerical candidates by their potential superiors. <i>This is the same problem that, ultimately, enabled the clerical sex-abuse crisis to metastacise.</i> Yet nobody wants to discuss it? Why?<br /><br />We can blame individuals all we want, and many of them deserve that blame (especially in chanceries). We can blame total disregard for Canon Law. But in the final analysis, Catholics must confront the obvious lack of due dilligence in seminaries. How many more Corapis and Euteneuers are out there that we don't know about just because they didn't have popular ministries?Joseph D'Hippolitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571554907399914529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-43725197199014599542011-07-06T13:53:06.941-04:002011-07-06T13:53:06.941-04:00An apology would be nice (when you get around to i...An apology would be nice (when you get around to it) to the people you bounced off your blog.Jeanette O'Toolehttp://www.fightingirishthomas.comnoreply@blogger.com