Corpus Christi

No theological book had a greater impact on me during my college days at Fordham (before Vatican II was a glimmer in Blessed John's eye) than that of the Belgian Jesuit, Emile Mersch: The Theology of the Mystical Body.

I thought of Mersch (who died in a bombing raid at the very beginning of World War II) when I read Pope Francis's Catechesis today. He expounds on the reality of the Church as the body of Christ and says: