Tuesday's News & Ideas - 4/28/2020

Church donations have plunged because of the coronavirus. Some churches won’t survive.*
Washington Post: About a third of all congregations have no savings, according to the 2018-2019 National Congregations Study.

Switching to online church busted my theology and changed my experience of God*
The Dallas Morning News: A communications director tasked with moving his church online realized that his assumptions about the church, his expectations of the church, were utterly off-point.

Americans are divided by religion on who should get critical care if there is a shortage of ventilators
Pew Research: In the U.S. and elsewhere, questions at the intersection of medicine and morality have arisen, such as who should receive critical care if medical resources are in short supply.

On Fox News, Cardinal Dolan praises Trump’s sensitivity to ‘feelings of the religious community’*
America: New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan made the case that Catholic schools and nonprofits are in need of financial assistance and praised Mr. Trump for his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.

Wartime Vatican archive shows how much Pius knew about the Holocaust, says researcher
Religion News Service: German researchers found that the pope, who never directly criticized the Nazi slaughter of Jews, knew from his own sources about Berlin’s death campaign early on.

The Spark

A coronavirus chronicle: Twenty-four hours at the epicenter of the pandemic.
50 New Yorker writers and photographers set out to document life in New York City, on what experts had estimated to be the peak of the pandemic.

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