Catholics no longer live in close-knit, prayerful communities. In fact, in many ways, our parishes are places where we know very few people and the activities being offered do not draw us into deep relationships with one another. We attend a gathering and we leave. We go home and spend hours on our phones and computers, fostering virtual relationships that are incapable of building up authentic communion. Communion is a watchword of our day given its prominence in the Synod of Synodality,…