By Alexandria Chiasson McCormick, Crisis Magazine - Due to the recent, and particularly grandiose, liturgical vision of a certain Midwestern diocese, The Geographical Parish is once more the topic of the day. It’s a fascinating concept, and one that is comforting to a certain mathematical kind of mind: absolutely every single one of the 1.27 billion Catholics in the world is neatly accounted for, divided into parishes and deaneries and dioceses, placed on a color-coded map with tidy boundaries. It is a beautiful thing, really.