A Body Needs A Head 

It is very strange that those who admit with scripture that the Church is the mystical body of Christ will not also admit a head. After all, how are we to know, for example, that the body exists in this earth? It is very easy to know that Christ was once walking the earth simply because men saw Him. After His ascension, how would men know His mystical body and where His life was to be found?  Our Blessed Lord did not leave these questions unanswered. He gave a sign that we would know His body, and the sign was the sign of all living things. How does any life manifest itself? Does not the unity of life manifest itself through the head, which is the source of the movements of the body? The head is the symbol, is it not, of the unity of life? Legs and arms can be amputated without destroying the unity of life. But cut off the head, and it is the end of life.