COR stands for 'Catholic Outdoor Renewal' and means heart or spirit in Latin. COR was founded in 2016 out of the desire of its founders to share transformational encounters with Christ through backcountry experiences with people from around the country. Each founding team member had experienced deep personal conversion through their time spent in creation and were hungry to invite others into similar encounters with Christ. 

COR was also born out of desire to facilitate these spiritual encounters through professionally instructed outdoor activities and deep wilderness experiences. The spiritual passion of the team, paired with the desire for excellence and professionalism in the backcountry, is fundamentally at the service of the Church's mission to “preach the Gospel to all nations” and strives to help all those who come on a COR course, whether seminarians, religious, Catholics, converts, Christians, or secular, to come to know Christ as the source of their being and identity. Through our ministry, the COR team strives to bring every participant face to face with God's promise and invitation in Sacred Scripture, "I will give you a new heart, and create a new spirit within you" (Ezk. 36:36)

COR Expeditions

Org chart

Teams

Offices