Hyattsville, Maryland
Small suburb of Washington, D.C. The New Yorker visits its Catholic community as a working example of Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision – The New Yorker | Joshua Rothman | subject | An intentional Catholic community of about two hundred families in modest brick homes with porches, held up in the book as an ark. |
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Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision – The New Yorker — Joshua Rothman (2017)
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One is in Hyattsville, Maryland, a small suburb of Washington, D.C.
- Role: subject
- In the article: An intentional Catholic community of about two hundred families in modest brick homes with porches, held up in the book as an ark. The author and Dreher visit and talk with residents about communal life, tool-trading and the cost of closeness. Dreher leaves wistful at a place where he might have belonged.
- Why it matters: Hyattsville is the article’s working example of the Benedict Option in practice.