Tuesday's News & Ideas - 5/13/2025
- The Augustinian pope
- Episcopals end federal partnership
- G3 Ministries founder resigns
- Worshipper murdered in mosque
- Pope’s tweets
- The pygmy nuthatch
The small, tight-knit religious order that molded Pope Leo XIV*
The New York Times: The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the world’s Roman Catholics.
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
NPR: In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees
G3 Ministries: Founder used fake profiles to slam fellow Christians*
Christianity Today: Pastor Josh Buice has resigned, and the organization canceled its upcoming conference, after his church uncovered “sinful” and “deeply divisive” online behavior.
A worshipper is murdered in a French mosque. How can this be ‘just another crime’?
The Guardian: Islamophobia is rampant in France. Official denial, even of the word itself, is driving the hatred
What we can learn about Leo XIV from his digital footprint
Religion News Service: Cardinal Robert Prevost’s tweets and posts might offer clues into the mind of Pope Leo XIV.
The Spark
The curious case of the pygmy nuthatch
A scene in “Charlie’s Angels” has one of the weirdest errors* ever committed to film. It took me months to uncover how it all went wrong, Forrest Wickman writes for Slate.
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