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CORPUS, celebrating forty-two years of service to the people of God, is one of the oldest reform groups in the Catholic Church, and is active in reform movements both in the U.S. and abroad. We are committed to working for a renewed priesthood of married and single men and women dedicated to serving God through the Community of Believers.
6th Sunday of Easter
Pleading the Case
In entering human history, Jesus shattered all previous conceptions of who God is and what man is meant to be. And He shattered all of ourpreconceived images of God as well. He vibrates to the hope and fear, the celebrations and desolations of each of us. He is the Incarnation of the compassion of the Father. Jesus reveals a God who is not indifferent – One who continues to live and breathe within us. In almost every verse of today’s Gospel passage Jesus assures us that we will not be left on our own – that He will never abandon us...
Too Many Birthdays
Hank Mattimore
So I'm sitting here sipping a cup of Joe at the Warm Puppy Cafe in Santa Rosa. From the large picture windows in the cafe, I can watch kids learning to skate in the ice arena. One little guy in a blue sweatshirt (he looks about 6 or 7 years-old) catches my eye when he does a whallopolozza of a belly flop right in front of my window. "Ouch", I think. "That must have hurt." Nah! This little dude has true grit. He gets right up and starts skating again.
Larry DiPaul
REST IN PEACE
Lawrence “Larry” M. DiPaul, 66, of Ardmore, a tireless advocate for the Catholic Church’s teachings on life and social justice in the Diocese of Camden and beyond, died Feb. 15.
From 2007-09, DiPaul was the Camden Diocese’s director of the Office of Social Justice Ministries, leading the diocese’s efforts to integrate Catholic social teaching into the life of South Jersey Catholics, through advocacy, service and faith formation.
In 2009, his office combined with the Office of Respect Life, to form the Office of Life and Justice, with DiPaul as director, working with clergy, religious and laity in the call to live in solidarity with all of God’s people, especially the most vulnerable, and promote a consistent and seamless ethic of life from conception to natural death.
Before his work in the diocese, from 2004-07 he was director of the Romero Center, a retreat and social justice education center in East Camden, affiliated with St. Joseph’s Pro-Cathedral.
John Doogan
REST IN PEACE
John P. Doogan, 82, of Lansdale, passed away August 3, 2013 at Abington Health - Lansdale Hospital. He is survived by his beloved wife, Teresa M. (Gunder) Doogan. Born February 6, 1931 in Philadelphia, John was the son of the late Patrick and Helen (Bradley) Doogan. Mr. Doogan was a graduate of St. Joseph's University where he was an All-State basketball player. He attended St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and was ordained May 19, 1962, and married in 1971. Later, he earned his Master's degree from La Salle University. In addition to his wife, John is survived by two sons, J. Patrick Doogan and his wife, Christine, of Broomall, and Kevin B. Doogan and his wife, Lenka, of Rydal; six beloved grandchildren; and a sister, Patricia Hafner and her husband, Thomas, of Cherry Hill, NJ. He was preceded in death by a sister, Mary Buckley, and her husband, Bernard.
Norman McLaughlin
July 1, 1930 - March 22, 2017
Rest in Peace
Norman C. McLaughlin, a longtime Catholic education administrator and social justice activist in Western New York, died Wednesday in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst. He was 86.
Mr. McLaughlin, who lived in Williamsville, was a longtime educator and advocate of peace and justice causes.
Born in Groveland, Livingston County, he grew up in Buffalo's Lovejoy neighborhood and graduated from Visitation Catholic School, the Little Seminary and Niagara Major Seminary before he was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1954. During his religious career, he served in Holy Name, St. Francis de Sales and St. Bartholomew's parishes.
Thomas Melville
Thomas Melville, antiwar protester and one of the ‘Catonsville Nine,’ dies at 86
Thomas R. Melville, a former Maryknoll priest and social justice activist who in 1968 participated in a high-profile act of civil disobedience against the Vietnam War, the burning of military draft records in Catonsville, Md., died May 1 at a nursing home in San Diego. He was 86.
The cause was complications from back injuries in a fall, said his wife, Marjorie Melville, a former Catholic nun who also participated in the raid.
On May 17, 1968, the Melvilles were among nine Catholic activists who stormed a draft board office in Catonsville, a suburb of Baltimore, seized 378 draft records and burned them in a parking lot outside in a homemade concoction of napalm.
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