Ballpark is an epic work and an excellent contribution to the discussion of baseball’s past, present, and future. It perfectly articulates what baseball has meant and continues to mean in the American city.
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If we can retain the poetry and community of baseball maybe we can rediscover it elsewhere, too, and begin the work of re-knitting the social fabric that keeps this country and its people from dividing and breaking apart.
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White Sox manager Rick Renteria speaks about his faith life. “I don't believe that I'm above anybody else,” he said in an interview. “I mean, I'm from very humble beginnings. And I think that we all have a place alongside of each other.”
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This month I want to preview an article that I am currently writing. The Great Altars of the Catholic Church (like the one above from St. John Cantius in Chicago) are artistic treasures. But more than that, they fulfill an aesthetic need that centers and grounds the rituals of the Mass by reminding us of the celebration's solemnity. Unfortunately, post-Vatican II churches have largely done away with their altars and replaced them with bland ones, usually made of simple cuts of marble.
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