Thursday's News & Ideas - 5/5/2022
- Religions supporting abortion rights
- Historic Selma church endangered
- 15 million killed by COVID
- Ordination survey
- Grove City College diversity review
- John Fryer’s revolution
Some religions support abortion rights. Their leaders are speaking up.
NBC News: More than a half-dozen major religions and denominations support abortion rights with few or some limits.
A church at the heart of Selma’s 1965 voting rights march is an endangered place
Associated Press: The red brick church, with distinctive twin bell towers and a domed ceiling, tops this year’s list of the nation’s most endangered historic places.
WHO estimates 15m people killed by COVID or overwhelmed health systems
The Guardian: UN body says report should prompt countries to invest more in their capacity to quell future emergencies.
Ordination survey finds dropping percentages of new white U.S. priests
Crux: The annual report of new priests commissioned by the U.S. bishops shows that among those who responded, a shrinking number are white, a sign of the “little-C” catholic nature of the Catholic Church.
At a crossroads*
Inside Higher Ed: If Grove City College’s review of its diversity efforts was meant to settle a debate over whether the institution is headed in the right direction, it didn’t.
The Spark
He spurred a revolution in psychiatry. Then he ‘disappeared.’
In 1972, Dr. John Fryer* risked his career to tell his colleagues that gay people were not mentally ill. His act sent ripples through the legal, medical and justice systems, The New York Times says.
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