When Life Gives You Lemons…

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 7:11 pm by Mark Shea

When Life Gives You Lemons… 2014-12-30T19:11:00-07:00 Mark Shea

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…make lemonade. That seems to be the motto of Mike DellaVecchia, a former fan of a certain fraud who snookered a lot of people into believing his tall tales of military exploits, academic brilliance, and rags to riches to rags to conversion tales. After this fraud betrayed his flock, slandered his bishop and held an utterly disgusting fire sale on his priesthood (an effort that appears to have come to naught and may, please God, lead to his repentance and return to obedience to Holy Church), Mr DellaVecchia, to deal with his deep disappointment, put together a couple of videos which are… well…

HT: Frank Weathers

Speaking of Frank, his comboxes instantly filled up with weepy people wringing their hands and crying out, “But it’s so awful to laugh at Beloved Folk Hero!” No. What’s awful is that Beloved Folk Hero lied to (and about) other people, got his fans to engage in 15 minute hates against his accuser, superior and bishop, parleyed his priesthood into a moneymaking scheme, and at this hour is still defended by victims of Stockholm Syndrome, all without offering a word of apology. I feel much sorrier for the people a multimillionaire liar deceives and tempts to despair of their faith than for the multimillionaire liar. I hope he repents. But till he does this fraud deserves at least to hear the laughter of the people he wounded with his perfidy. The confessional door stands open and he is welcome to return to obedience any time. I sincerely pray he does. But he does not deserve kid gloves. He deserves the Blessed Mother’s combat boot in his rear end. Laughter like Mr. DellaVecchia’s is the refuge of the wounded. Getting angry at Mike is blaming the victim.

Speaking of which, compare and contrast the handwringing over people being “mean” to the poor multimillionaire who dumped his vows with the perfectly just and free-flowing ridicule offered to the equally ridiculous and impenitent Fr. Cutie (seen here attempting to say, “See! Here’s a skanky bishop who betrayed his vows like me! So I didn’t betray my vows because this guy betrayed his vows too, which makes what I did okay!”). Why the difference in treatment of the two renegade priests? Because Corapi was a folk hero and Cutie was not. In short, more of the trouble with tribals.

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