Folk singer Peter Seeger is ninety years old now. His reedy tenor can no longer bring an audience to its feet singing enthusiastically for unity, justice and peace. Whether he was leading “We Shall Overcome” in the Civil Rights battles of the 60s, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” during the Vietnam War, or “Turn, Turn, Turn” to advocate patience in face of the adversity that comes in the struggle for justice, he is now an American icon. It wasn’t always so. He was right when it was not popular, and like all prophets, he suffered from that. For years he experienced great adversity.

Investing is always a risk.  You have to give up something in the hope of obtaining something even more valuable.  And that's the kind of investment Jesus asks of us.  Before all else, we have to fully understand what "the treasure" really is.  We have to recognize the enduring value of the love of God and neighbor; we have to see how Gospel living can insure our happiness and security - and then - and only then - will we be willing to put aside the vanity of treasures that keeps us from becoming "rich in what matters to God."

In the more than two decades I spent as a priest (I left the clergy a decade ago over the issue of celibacy), I had many opportunities to observe the ways priests are required to grovel to their superiors

We thank you for your rapid turnaround in supporting two critical elections for CORPUS these past couple of months... Russ Ditzel, Corpus President

Jennie, whom everyone in Lyndhurst knew, loved and trembled before was the matriarch of la famiglia LaCorte. Short, and anything but petite in stature, she was known by all simply as Mama LaCorte.

Like most folks I find myself pretty much chained to my desk on a daily basis. Which is why I try to regularly get out for a long walk through and beyond my neighborhood.

We've been there before… transitioning from an community of 'reserve' priests working for reinstatement to canonical ministry, becoming an 'association' of priests and their wives collaborating on witnessing to a 'married priesthood' and encouraging members to reengage in some type of ministerial activity. We grew further as we embraced the viability of women's ordination, and as we formally recognized that an ordained priesthood, semper reformanda, must truly be inclusive and supportive of our gay sisters and brothers called to ministry.

Jesus was priest -- mediator between God and humanity precisely because he experienced, immanently within and outside himself, the incredibly transcendent presence of God, and found himself driven to share that good news.