Monday’s News & Ideas - 9/8/2025
- AI-generated Bible content
- NatCon’s Christian nationalism
- Bishop at immigration courts
- Carlo Acutis canonized
- Mosque in Long Island
- Venezuelan Migrants
Fantasy or faith? One company’s AI-generated Bible content stirs controversy
NPR: The AI Bible is run by Pray.com, a for-profit company that claims to have “the world's #1 app for faith and prayer.”
Bishop Pham sought refuge in U.S. Now, he supports people in immigration courts
NPR: Bishop Michael Pham, head of the San Diego diocese and the first American bishop installed by an American pope, talks about his priorities and his involvement in immigration issues.
Carlo Acutis, ‘God’s influencer’ who died age 15, declared a saint by Pope Leo
The Guardian: London-born Italian, who died in 2006, built websites to spread Catholic teaching and is credited with two miracles.
At NatCon, an effort to make Christian nationalism a more inclusive movement
Religion News Service: Speakers and organizers alike worked to craft a vision for a Christian America that steers clear of anti-Catholicism and, especially, antisemitism.
A town reluctantly let a mosque expand. Then came the backlash.*
The New York Times: A Long Island town board failed to approve a settlement its lawyers had struck with Masjid Al-Baqi after a yearslong dispute tainted by bigotry. The mosque’s federal suit will be heard next month.
The Spark
Enemies of the state
The New Yorker describes how the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants* in the U.S.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
