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Was the Parish Made for Man—or Man for the Parish? by Alexandria Chiasson McCormick – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Was the Parish Made for Man—or Man for the Parish? by Alexandria Chiasson McCormick

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This photo shows the church as it appeared from 1890 to 1951, when a lightning strike necessitated the lowering of the bell tower to its present height. Date 1890. ... Public domain. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.

By Alexandria Chiasson McCormick, Crisis Magazine, June 17, 2025

Alexandria Chiasson McCormick is a homeschooling mother of six. She holds an undergraduate degree in history from Christendom College and a master’s degree in Education from Wilmington University. She lives in the Philadelphia metro area with her husband and children.

There was a very good reason that the Church wanted Catholics to attend their local parish: the care of souls. That same reason is driving many Catholics to escape their parish geography.

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.

I’m reminded of Ralph McInerny’s ambitious and strangely compelling (though ultimately unsatisfying) novel The Priest. One of the secondary characters, the pastor of St. Waldo, is absolutely obsessed with The Census—the natural counterpart of The Geographical Parish. In the pastor’s office hangs a local map with the boundaries of the parish clearly outlined in marker and little pushpins in place to show the progress of the yearly census; there is also a little Rolodex of index cards, with a note for every single parishioner. …

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