Talk:Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity
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Father Chuck, Here's the e-mail I received last month-in its entirety. I listened to the CD and Father Corapi never mentioned the karate but did go on about "Golden Gloves".
I don't know the author of the e-mail but the fellow who sent it to me is an upright guy who I've known personally for 27 years-he was my best man.
I do hope they got this one wrong and Father Corapi is what he says...dod
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From: To: Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:08 PM Subject: EXTREMELY IMPORTANT... Another wannabe...
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT… This is a reprehensible alias as a Special Forces soldier. He masquerades as a Catholic Church Priest.
Dear Father John Corapi, S.O.L.T. (Although you are NOT listed on their official website as one of their priests or deacons) (or should I call you Roger W. Garvey or Rodger W. Garvey, your other aliases);
Here is just one internet example from hundreds of your biography:
“Father John was born on May 20, 1947 in Hudson, New York and early
in life exhibited a prowess for the good life, excelling as a gridiron star in high school, attaining a blackbelt in Karate and getting his degree in Business Administration from Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. He had it all. The Vietnam conflict was looming and so he joined the military becoming a member of the prestigious Green Berets. After discharge from the service he went to work as a CPA which eventually took him to "Sin City" - Las Vegas where he became a casino auditor and fell in with the jet set. This translated into an opportunity to plunge into real estate which made him a millionaire with all the wealth of the rich and famous as he accrued it all - from a yacht to a Ferrari to a scenic home overlooking the Pacific. As so often happens to those who seek the world, the flesh and the devil - they find it and Father John found his hellhole in Los Angeles where he became addicted to cocaine, losing everything and wandering aimlessly as a homeless person in downtown LA.”
In the New Testament, we are warned that God is especially
tough on anybody who teaches, so with that in mind, my question is simple: What is the bursting radius of a lightning bolt? The reason I mention this is because I am a REAL former Green Beret (US Army Special Forces) Vietnam veteran and have two sons who are REAL Green Beret sergeants, and I speak for thousands of REAL Green Berets, who cannot stand phony, wannabe, lying, fakes claiming they are “former Green Berets and Vietnam veterans,” especially in the name of God. I mention this since your army records, which I have, state that you were a “leg” clerk-typist” guarding your typewriter and desk at wild places like Ft Knox, KY and Ft Dix, NJ and a brief stint to Europe (as a private). Incidentally, I just two days ago celebrated my 41st Anniversary in the martial arts and have been featured in BLACK BELT magazine, so I also wondered what style did you receive your Black Belt in and what rank are you?
How dare you claim to be a Green Beret and Vietnam veteran, when you did NOT even attend Jump School, let alone ever take ANY Special Forces training whatsoever? You did Basic, AIT, and then became a “Chairborne Ranger” the balance of your army stint and never went near Vietnam. My sons, many SF friends, and I worked our individual asses off to earn our Green Berets. That is why it is now a crime to claim to be Special Forces when you were not, under the Stolen Valor Law. By the way, many of those former Green Berets and the FBI have been BCCed on this as well as some in the news media, so they can investigate you.
According to the numbers provided in many of your bios and
interviews all over the web, you look like you have made millions of dollars selling personal appearances, tapes, DVD’s and books like a modern day Catholic wannabe Billy Graham, except Billy simply evangelized without all the marketing or commercial website. You did so by stealing the valor of others to make your story more colorful, and you can pay heavy fines and prison time for that. In fact, in your bio (again just one example of many) above it states: You received a business degree at Pace University in Pleasantville, NY and your black belt, and then the war was looming so you joined the Army and SF. The problem is, your military records indicated you entered the service on April 19, 1967 in Hudson, NY and ETSed (exited) on January 19, 1970, and you had no bachelors degree then. In fact, like me, you were barely out of high school, since you and I both were born in 1947.
In your curriculum vitae, you claim to be a deacon and also
a priest ordained by the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, of Robstown, TX. S.O.L.T. nowhere on their website under priests, hermits, ministries, or anywhere are you mentioned, although they have a list displayed of all their priests in America and overseas with bios. I will let the Catholic Church address that issue with you. Less than 3 out of every 100 who try actually earn a Green Beret, and it means a lot to each of us, and we will not stand for anybody to pose as one of us, especially for personal and financial gain.
I am not Catholic, but I am a Christian, and I will make
one major guess: In the verbiage of Special Forces, besides the media, and the FBI, and others, I personally believe that God is really going to kick your unholy ass.
Let’s review: You and I were born in 1947, which generally
means high school graduation in 1965 or 1966. You claim you were a football star and claim before the “looming war,” you achieved a baccalaureate degree as well as a black belt (which generally takes four years at legit karate schools), yet you entered the army on April, 1967, without having a degree. How did you manage that? How did you manage to be a football star with all the practices, and also get a black belt at the same time? You had to be at least a buck sergeant in those days, as well as airborne to even qualify to try to earn a Green Beret. You also had to enlist for extra time if you went SF, and you only had a total of 2 and a half years in the army, with an MOS, or job titles as stenographer, clerk/typist, and personnel specialist. You never attended any infantry or combat arms training whatsoever. You never earned jump wings. You never spent one day at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is where you had to go to earn a Green Beret. For awards you received an army commendation medal, national defense medal (which are given for breathing), and a marksman badge from basic training, so you could net even shoot straight (a prediction of your future memoirs apparently), and that is it. The only overseas duty you ever saw was behind a typewriter in Europe. So tell me, Father Corapi, how did you become Rambo for all these years and all those millions?
>From your website: “The essence of Father's message is the
essential message of Jesus Christ. It is Good News: a message of TRUTH and goodness, love and mercy.” Guess what just bit you in the ass? TRUTH . In several of your missives, it states that after speaking to large groups you spend hours in the Confessional. Good idea. I would start pouring my heart out.
Do you remember about Jesus turning over the tables of the
money-changers in the Temple? I would not want to be you in the months ahead. In fact, I would rather have a millstone tied around my neck and be tossed into the center of the lake. By the way, you owe a public apology to all the men, past and present, of the US Army Special Forces. There have been other fakes who did not heed my words when I told them that, but always ended up apologizing. Maybe the Catholic Church will let you get away with claiming to be a member of exalted societies or elite organizations, but trust me, that ain’t happening with the US Army Special Forces.
Finally, as a Christian, I am sickened by the phonies,
hypocrites, fakes, and money-grubbers who use the name of God and my personal Savior Jesus Christ to further their personal agendas, line their pockets, aggrandize their egos, and try to exalt themselves. It is very unwise, actually very stupid, to piss off guys with backgrounds like mine, but I honestly do not believe in this case, however, I need to do a thing but simply just sit back and watch. Read Romans 19: “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” You will be hearing from others, soon, trust me.
De Oppressor Liber,
