{"id":2471,"date":"2011-03-20T23:07:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T03:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:47:26","slug":"the-corapi-case-what-we-know-what-we-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/03\/the-corapi-case-what-we-know-what-we-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corapi case: what we know, what we don't"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Well, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor: it\u2019s been a quiet weekend at The Deacon\u2019s Bench.<\/p>\n

Which is to say: um, no.\u00a0 Not so much.<\/p>\n

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The blogosphere is still trembling from The Corapi Quake.\u00a0 There\u2019s been an unprecedented reaction to this story<\/strong> <\/a>about the famous priest\u2019s very public admission that he has been accused of impropriety and suspended, pending an investigation.<\/p>\n

The phenomenal numbers of comments and \u201cshares\u201d on Facebook tell the story \u2014 and appear to be a record for The Bench.<\/p>\n

But to click on the comments and read them is to wade into a veritable foodfight of people flinging truths, half-truths, fervent pieties, adoring prayers and angry accusations.\u00a0 It\u2019s a mess.\u00a0 One reader is suggesting that blog commenters who have made \u201crash judgment\u201d about the man are now in a state of mortal sin.\u00a0 (For those wondering: that\u2019s the case only if it is done with malicious intent, which isn\u2019t always easy to discern.\u00a0 And I\u2019m not convinced that people who read blogs \u2014 or those who write them \u2014 are necessarily the best-equipped to judge the conditions of souls belonging to total strangers on the other side of a computer screen.)\u00a0 Others are shocked, simply shocked<\/em>, that anyone could even conceive<\/em> of this man doing anything remotely sinful.\u00a0 He\u2019s been compared, more than once, and favorably, to Padre Pio.<\/p>\n

Anyway: Elizabeth Scalia has done a very good job of sorting through what we do and do not know about the Corapi case<\/a><\/strong>, concluding with these wise and common-sense observations:<\/p>\n

What we do not know:<\/strong> why God allows things to happen.<\/p>\n

What we do know:<\/strong> all things ultimately work for the Glory of God, even if we do not always recognize how, while we\u2019re in the midst of events.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To which I can only add: Amen.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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