Nearly a generation ago, I worked for an organization that served physicians. One of the physician leaders at the time would sometimes describe several physician colleagues as being, "a mile wide and a millimeter deep".
Fast forward a generation. Whenever scanning across the hundreds of cable television channels and coming across EWTN, a Catholic television network, there was more than a 50% chance that I would see the friar in the gray habit with the booming voice. This friar is Father John Corapi. For many years, Father Corapi has been the darling of what many might refer to as conservative Catholics. The former Green Beret/media mogul/drug user/womanizer/etc. pulled himself up by his bootstraps, embraced the faith and became a priest. If anyone ever had any doubt about this remaarkable transformation, all they had to do was ask Father Corapi. He would tell anyone with a willing ear how HE served admirable in the military, how HE associated with the famous and wealthy, how HE had enough money to buy beach homes, yachts, fancy cars, how HE somehow managed to turn his life around, how HE shares the true faith of the Church, how well-known HE has become. One can find all of this on Father Corapi's website.
A click on the website will show that Father Corapi must now embrace a core element of our faith - that we are not in control. As high of a being as Father Corapi thinks he is, there is a higher being.
It is somewhat ironic that Father Corapi made significant amounts of money writing several books, giving thousands of presentations, producing numerous CDs and DVDs, appearing on countless television and radio programs, etc. He has spent thousands of hours and earned millions expounding on a simple theme: pray for all concerned. Those are the final words of his statement related to his current situation.
