Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to our reporting on a procession led by Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, to Dodger's Stadium on Pride Night, June 16.
The Gospel of Sports: In an interview, Sexton says, "Simply the exercise of playing or caring about baseball is an exercise in community. … I don't think there's any question that it can elevate us."
Theology en la Plaza: While the resumption of baseball was often interpreted as a return to the comfort of the ordinary, Easter celebrates the disruption of complacency.
The Field Hospital: The sainthood cause of Lakota leader Black Elk opens in South Dakota; Canadian doctor honored for work with dying; Northern California recovers from wildfires.
The Field Hospital: St. Vincent de Paul is a small parish with a very popular noon Sunday Mass, especially when there is a Washington Nationals baseball home game a block away scheduled at 1:35 p.m.
Washington may be a swamp and the White House at new lows, but this summer the D.C. team, the Nationals, romps on a field of dreams. Homers are common, whiffs rare.
