Monday's News & Ideas - 6/17/2019
- NY ends vaccine exemption
- Vatican to ordain married men?
- Liberty cuts divinity faculty
- Russian culture war
- Quebec ban of religious symbols
- Love according to Disney
New York ends religious exemption to vaccine mandates
Associated Press: New York eliminated the religious exemption as the nation's worst measles outbreak in decades prompts states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out of immunization rules.
Vatican opens door to limited ordination of married men as priests
The New York Times: The Roman Catholic Church on Monday cracked open the door to ordaining married, elderly men into the priesthood.
Cuts at Liberty hit divinity
Inside Higher Ed: Liberty University’s Rawlings School of Divinity is chopping a dozen faculty slots and has lost students steadily in recent years.
Russians are getting sick of church
Foreign Policy: Orthodox Christianity -- and Vladimir Putin -- are at the center of the country’s newest culture war.
Quebec bans religious symbols in some public sector jobs
The New York Times: The Quebec government passed a bill barring many public employees from wearing religious symbols in the workplace, prompting an outcry that civil liberties in the province were under attack.
The Spark
Love isn’t what it was
In a strangely unremarked-upon twist, Disney films have taken to subverting romance and rethinking the happy-ever-afters, Aeon says.
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