Those of us over 40 also tend to forget that a significant portion of our Church was not alive to experience pre-Vatican II Catholicism. Time and again, when we scratch beneath the surface, we are brought to stark awareness how different our formation in faith has been. Russ Ditzel, CORPUS President.

When a fifth grade boy in a school in Texas was asked to write an essay about “My Very First Dad,” his essay pulled at his teacher’s heart strings.

“I remember him like God in my heart. I remember him in my heart like the clouds overhead and strawberry ice cream and bananas when I was a little kid. But the most I remember is his love, as big as the State of Texas when I was born.”

Many of us stay in not because we believe the official ideology of celibacy anymore, but because we believe in our work, we love the people, and we also know God's mercy.

We are approaching the wedding season - a good time to think about marriage. So my apologies up front to the celibate, the single and the partnered who work out their lives with other people in different ways.  This is for the married and soon to be married.

As I write this, the media is overwhelming us with coverage of Michael Jackson’s tragic death. We are hearing not only about his extraordinary talents, but also about his drugs, his doctors, his debts, the custody of his children, his Neverland Ranch with its bizarre lifestyle. The media covered his memorial service from blast-off to re-entry. You'd think we were burying the assassinated John Kennedy at a pop concert.

It has been a while since I wrote to connect with you, my brothers and sisters of the CORPUS Inclusive Ministry Community.
I am at my computer this Holy Thursday evening hoping to enroll you into a vision of possibility that many of you, despite having much on your plate and perhaps being even a little more grey around the temples than you’d like, could consider embracing.

But there's something different, too. I told you about my history. Then there's his. He's a Catholic priest. Yes, out for several years, formally laicizedﾗ"reduced"ﾗas official church lingo puts itﾗto the "lay state."

Reflections on the vision of Corpus from the newly elected members of the Corpus Board...