The Narthex
Dog Parks
The infrastructure of some cities is family-unfriendly. Catering to canines is the new trend
By John M. Grondelski | July 25th 2025 5:58 PMA little over a year ago, I walked up Capitol Hill one morning behind two female staffers. Most staffers are very young -- generally twenty-somethings -- because they're either college/grad school interns or just graduated. The two young women were sharing one's excitement about moving into an apartment in DC.…
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Thinking outside the box about what our Church has now
By John M. Grondelski | May 7th 2024 11:58 AMIn a recent post I criticized the wave of parish closings and the overall mania for “downsizing” the Church in the United States. I argued, against the naysayers who cite “numbers” and “statistics,” that if bishops and priests acted like bishops and priests rather than statisticians and actuaries, they’d stop…
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