Friday’s News & Ideas - 6/5/2026

Spain’s reckoning with clergy abuse enters a new chapter as Pope Leo visits
Associated Press: With a newspaper’s creation in 2018 of a database of clergy sexual abuse cases, Spain began confronting a legacy of abuse and cover-up. It did so later than other Western countries, including the United States, Ireland and Australia.

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents
Baptist News Global: A Brookings report estimates that around 22,000 citizen children are left without any parent in the home due to detention.

Defense Department to drop atheists, pagans, 175 others from list of military faiths
Religion News Service: The new list includes 31 recognized faiths, most of them Christian denominations.

Southern Baptists to consider tough stance against women pastors
AL.com: The president of the flagship Southern Baptist seminary plans to present an amendment next week to the Southern Baptist Convention to toughen rules against women pastors.
Baptist News Global: BWIM puts up a billboard in Orlando

Williamsburg pastor reflects on path to the pulpit as his church nears its 250th anniversary
WHRO: For more than 20 years, the Historic First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, has been led by a pastor who calls out injustice where he sees it in history and today.

The Spark

Inside the multiyear effort to rename PCOS
While changing one letter in an acronym might seem like a small shift, this new name for a common condition is the result of 14 years of international collaboration between clinicians, patients and even marketing consultants.