I went to a White Sox game and all I got was a papal miter (thanks be to God).
Dominic Lynch
Dominic Lynch is a writer from Chicago. He publishes The New Chicagoan.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The most remote parish in the world has 42 Catholics and zero priests. It’s still thriving.
It is the most remote settled island on earth, and a small Catholic community not only survives there but thrives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Ross Douthat on our state of stagnation
Ross Douthat explores the cultural, economic and political torpor that he thinks has emerged in the United States over the last half-century.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: How the fall of Rome led to the modern world
Walter Scheidel argues in “Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity,” that out of the Roman Empire’s ashes rose modernity.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Baseball’s fields of dreams
What makes a good baseball stadium? One that blends well into its urban fabric, creates intimate experiences and is architecturally pleasing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Can social justice activism go too far?
Over the course of the mid-to-late 20th century, notions of social justice went very, very wrong.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The roots of American conservatism
William F. Buckley Jr. was more than a prolific writer: He was the brains and coalescing force of a post-World War II philosophy that gradually became known as “conservatism” and which culminated with the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan as president.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Three Cubs blaze a trail
Made famous in poetry, the iconic infield of the Chicago Cubs a century ago helped usher in baseball’s golden age.
Posted inSynod on the Family
The Catholic Church is not in crisis because of the Synod
If the synod is a crisis, then what would the conclave of 1799-1800 be considered?