Fr. John Corapi – “What is Truth?”

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Fr. John Corapi motivated thousands of St. Louis Catholics to fall deeper in love the Faith.  His four talks are highlighted by Derrick Flannigan’s blog.  Here’s the first talk, “What is Truth?”

• Fr. Corapi notes that there is more fear and anxiety in the world today, saying “These are pivotal times”.

• “Truth…what is it?” This is the question raised by Pontius Pilate before he sentenced Christ to death. “Quid est Veritas?” (Latin)

• Ontological Truth: “God as truth”. The Essence of God is to exist.

• Intellectual Truth: the mind coming into conformity to the reality of God as truth.
  

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• The rise of Subjectivism in modern society: Descartes “I think, therefore I am”. Such principals turns philosophy upside down and leads for moral relativism.

• Fr. Corapi says, “Only the humble see truth”, despite how intelligent one may appear to be or how many degrees one may have.

• “Without humility you are like a loose canon on a ship”.

• “Error in the beginning is an error indeed” (St. Thomas Aquinas). We need to have a solid foundation in truth..to live in reality.

• “God knows all things perfectly in knowing Himself” (Aquinas)

• Without the light of truth, death comes. The truth is light…error is darkness! “Truth leads to life, error leads to death!”

• “The United States has a death wish,” because there is so much error in society.

• Conformity of the knower and object known: this is truth.  Fr. Corapi held us his water bottle and said, “No matter how much I believe this water bottle is a pepperoni pizza it still remains a water bottle…no matter how sincere I am!” Basically, we can’t change reality!

• “Vatican II did not change the Ten Commandments to Ten Suggestions!” Fr. Corapi notes that we can’t pick the Commandments that are convenient for us.

• “True freedom has been lost because of a loss of truth in society!”

• The fulfillment of freedom is not being able to sin”, as seen by the Blessed Virgin Mary

• “So, why are there so many problems in society and the Catholic Church?” Fr. Corapi believes it is because we as Catholics have been unfaithful!

• “To the degree we are faithful, we lift the world up and infuse life into the Church….life into the world!”

• Without faith it is impossible to please God

• We need memorization in our faith…”like it was in the old days with the Baltimore Catechism.”   “What if a brain surgeon or an engineer did not memorize certain medical operations or formulas…he wouldn’t operate on me….I wouldn’t drive across his bridge! We need to memorize our faith”

• So, what is faith! It is the theological virtue to believe all God has said and revealed…all the Church proposes for our belief…because He who has revealed it is truth itself

• “Be careful what you wish for…If you don’t want God as the heart and soul of life, society…you will inherit darkness!”

• “If don’t practice your faith, who will? Don’t be ashamed of your faith-you are the light of the world!”

• “The sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin!” Pope Pius XII

• “I thought our Lady was the only one immaculately conceived?” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, speaking on how many people think they are without sin.

• Fr. John Corapi took some time to speak on socialism, quoting Pope Leo XIII: “Socialism will not help the poor. Rather it reduces everyone to the same lowest common denominator of poverty and misery, while at the same time drying up the very sources of capital”. (Large applause after this quote)