Father Corapi, a popular preacher, plans year off from traveling

Published: 2007-03-06

APPLETON, Wis. (CNS) -- The popular preacher Father John Corapi, well-known to audiences of the Eternal Word Television Network and Relevant Radio, has been traveling the country since his 1991 ordination by Pope John Paul II. But he is quitting the travel later this year to take a year off and stay home in Montana. But he is not retiring, he told a group of 1,400 people at St. Pius X Church in Appleton Despite rumors to the contrary and speculation about his successor, "I will definitely say that I'm not absolutely finished with traveling. Somebody's going to see me somewhere again before too long," he told an enthusiastic audience. Father Corapi, a priest of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, was in Appleton in early February. In 16 years he has heard hundreds of questions, he said, and 95 percent of them fall into the same three or four categories: liturgical questions, moral issues about what to do in tough situations, the scandals that have surfaced in the church in the last five years, and church teachings and questions arising from the Second Vatican Council.

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