What the Catholic Church can learn about change from baseball’s pitch-clock innovation

We have a great summer bonus episode, all about baseball! To listen
to the full episode, become a patron of Jesuitical! This is the
first season with a pitch clock in Major League Baseball, which was
implemented to try to speed up the game and appeal to younger
viewers. But to some longtime baseball fans the rule change feels
gimmicky and disrespectful to the grand tradition of America's
pastime. If the debate sounds familiar, that's because the Catholic
Church is at a similar pivotal moment in its history. Younger
people are not filling the pews as previous generations have, and
Catholics are grappling with how to reform itself without
compromising its authentic tradition.  On today's episode, two
past guests and baseball fanatics return to debate the pitch clock
and draw analogies between the game and the church they love. J.D.
Long-Garcia is a senior editor at America and Greg Hillis runs the
Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University. You can read their
takes on the pitch clock here: J.D. Long-Garcia, "The pitch clock
is a travesty. The Catholic Church must learn from baseball’s
mistake." Greg Hillis, "Quit Trying to ‘Fix’ Baseball" and "In
Praise of the Pitch Clock" Help support the production of
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