The “mythical bowling alley” — that’s how it was thought of by seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome in recent years. The narrow room in the basement of the seminary’s main ...

Bowling is thought to have begun around 400 A.D. as a ritual to cleanse oneself from sin by rolling a rock into an object representing sin. Bowling took its present form in Germany by 1500 with 10 ...