In the early 1960s, as a young man estranged from the Episcopal Church, I followed with great interest the deliberations and decrees of Vatican II. What was especially appealing was the council's theological vision of the church, not as a massive institution with a conservative bureaucracy, but as the people of God, the body of Christ, a living organism including all who follow Christ. Largely as a result of that inspiration, I returned to the Episcopal Church in 1967, bringing my wife and children with me.
Read Ormonde's account of studying for the permanent diaconate in the Episcopal Church at Notre Dame Seminary, a Roman Catholic seminary in New Orleans, during the heady days when the windows opened by John XXIII were still letting in the breeze.
