An Immune System within the Body of Christ

This column by Fr. Ron Rolheiser ran in the January 5, 2005 Catholic Herald. He starts out saying

We've gone mystically tone-deaf.

Given his title, you might expect his theme will relate to the Church as Mystical Body of Christ. Unfortunately for his column, he manages to come across as unclear on that concept.

The body of Christ is not a body in the way General Motors is a body, but is a body in the way that a man or woman is body. The unity inside that body is not mystical or analogical, it's real.