The Body of Christ and the spring meeting of the U.S. Catholic bishopsWe have just celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi, the solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord. Talking to the first communicants at St. Laurence Parish, I said that appearances are deceiving when it comes to the Holy Eucharist. It looks like the bread of Jesus’ time, tastes like unleavened bread, smells and feels like bread; but it’s not bread. It’s the body and blood, human soul and divine nature of Jesus of Nazareth, risen from the dead. They believed this, because they had been well...