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"Europeans know what Christianity is and have rejected it. Americans believe what they want and call it Christianity." --H.W. Crocker

And so, we get the spectacle, on the Progressive Dissenting end of the spectrum of supporting things like the murder of unborn babies and calling it "free exercise of Christian conscience" when it is, of course, naked suppression of Christian conscience. Likewise, the strange spectacle of Christian supporters of gay sex screaming at you to shut up and render nothing less than acclaim for an act that the Tradition calls a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance.

But of course, people who read my blog know that. Our tribe majors in knowing that. It's not so keen on knowing other things the Tradition condemns and which Lefties try to remind us of. Because, you know, Lefties are Lefties and can be safely ignored and condemned en masse.

Which brings me to something I've noticed of late on the conservative end of the Catholic spectrum is the curious way in which "Liberal" has come to be synonymous with "sinful" and "evil".

Here, for instance, are some curious remarks from the BS Dawg's comboxes as the True Believers and former True Believers (conservative Catholics all) try to wrestle with how to apply their standard American taxonomies to this apostate, fraud and grifter.

What's puzzling to them is that he still knows how to mouth "conservative" jargon about abortion (and no doubt will be offering us his thoughts on socialism, the glory of capitalism, our glorious war for Empire, and all the rest of the usual Talk Radio culture war fare as he tries to reposition himself as a sort of cross between Michael Savage and Joel Osteen for the kind of people who think Glenn Beck is a reliable intellectual and spiritual leader). And, indeed, by any sane measure, the guy is clearly in the camp of what passes for conservatism today.

But he is also, quite obviously, an apostate priest who can't run away fast enough from Mary, all Catholic distinctives, and everything that endeared him to pious conservative Catholics. His whole site can be summed up as "Truth. Hope. For Sale." and only the most desperately needy Celebrity Worshipper still is clinging to the hope that he is not the fraud and grifter he so obviously reveals himself to be.

So how do the ardent conservative Catholics on both sides of the pro/anti Corapi divide order their thinking?

Fr. Carapi is in trouble you can see in his face he is fighting within What he says does not make sense now.Only has a repented Priest will he be able to find honour and holiness in the Church he Claims to love By his actions he just aids the enemy in bringing scandal to The holy Catholic Church …. as is he now serving himself for profit This is so sad I loved to watch him speak on EWTN Shows how powerful the evil one is as you accept more of the liberal views as to what is mercy.

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I wish I never bought your CD's. I have purchase over 100.00 dollars of your cd's and can't find the stomach to listen to them anymore. Your leaving the church only proves one thing and one thing only, that you must be guilty. The devil is now dancing because you have fooled everyone and only made us Catholics and priest a laughing stock to all liberals.

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Hmmm, seems like a lot of hating is going on here. If I were the Black Sheepdog I'd shut down this site and I wouldn't look back. He doesn't need the money, this site mostly bashes him, why do it? He is a far better man than I am.

Yet he chooses to be hated by many so that he can continue to teach the word (Matthew 10:22).

I'm hungry to hear what he has to teach, yes I was disappointed that this video didn't talk of the things I wanted to learn, but he explained that there were people that wanted to know about him so I was glad he was being courteous to them and I will wait patiently until he is done.

What we need on this site is more Catholics and Christians, seems like Satan's spawns (for lack of a better word) are doing their masters biddings.

I know what my master says "love others as you love yourself". So before you write your message you have to ask yourself "who is your master?" and WWJD?

If you don't like what you are hearing by the Black sheepdog then please change the channel and let us Catholics and Christians that love the black sheepdog have our peace. We've moved on and we are not looking back.

Let it go and do your masters bidding elsewhere – we are tired of hearing it.

Reply to the above: Sounds like liberal jargon to me

The inimitable Paul Primavera writes

Please folks, pray for Father Corapi. Instead of speculating that either liberal clergy forced him out or he really did commit indiscretions, just pray for him. I think I may break my own personal rule and buy his story of only to hear his side of things. He does deserve a fair hearing, but most of all our prayers. And yes, I think something is terribly wrong in both camps. But please let us stop the bickering and pray for him.

thus, demonstrating the truth of this again:



Another reader complains of Corapi Kool-Aid drinkers that they are "just blind sheep…almost like liberals in the political realm…"

Still another writes:

This is such a disaster for everyone involved. I'm so torn, I just give up and give it to God. I don't know what to think. No doubt John Corapi is in distress, and I pray earnestly for him and the fate of his spirit. Whether he is a victim or a betrayer, I do not know. I do know he has the mark of a priest, and God will judge him, not me. It's just so disappointing in this time of so many liberal priests setting their own agendas, to lose even one orthodox priest. God help him, and God help us.

What's fascinating here is the role "liberals" and "liberalism" play in all these people's thinking. The liberal is the servant of the Evil One, poisoning Corapi's mind with false views of mercy (because it can't be that Corapi or his conservative followers who have made excuses out the wazoo for him). The liberal is the bogeyman looking on in mockery and Corapi's sin is to make conservatives look stupid to liberals (again, no consideration that the conservative defenders bear some responsibility here). A long screed by a conservative adorer of Corapi is not condemned for being a tendentious expression of a cult of personality (i.e., the sin of idolatry). Nope, it is condemned because it "sounds like liberal jargon". A popular theory that "liberal clergy forced him out" is often bruited, while somebody else complains that Corapi defenders "sound like liberals" and yet another person frets that with so many liberals it's bad to lose an orthodox priest.

Forgive me, but doesn't this strike you as peculiar? Once again, as with the alleged liberal conspiracy to destroy Michael Voris, it sure looks to me like this entirely intramural squabble between Catholics who are all conservative consists, in large part, of invoking liberals as bogeymen or labeling other conservatives as "liberal" (apparently the worst possible sin in the universe). What nobody seems to want to do is consider the possibility that guys like Corapi are--entirely--creatures who were made, promoted, popularized and utterly adored by Our Tribe of conservative Catholics and that, if anything, our blunder was not paying attention to Lefty Catholic critics who were sounding the alarm about this guy for years. As with Maciel and Euteneuer, it turns out that people outside our hermetically sealed epistemological bubble may, in fact, have things to say to us from which we can profit--if we weren't so bloody sure we were the only Real Catholics[TM].

Or we can just go on flinging "liberal" at anybody who discomfits us, including--incredibly--defenders of Simon Rafe or Fr. Corapi. Me: I think when "liberal" get slapped on the forehead of people who like EWTN, Real Catholic TV, and CNA, it's pretty much past the sell-by date. I also think that our tendency to use those terms (terms used nowhere as descriptors in the Catechism or in the Church's teaching documents), only demonstrates how clearly we do not think with the Church, but instead allow ourselves to be herded around by political categories and pop culture manufacturers. In other words, believing what we want and calling it Christianity.