Tuesday's News & Ideas - 9/21/2021

Rebuilding of France’s Notre Dame Cathedral to begin after 2019 fire
Associated Press: The centuries-old structure is finally stable and secure enough for artisans to start rebuilding it, the government agency overseeing the reconstruction said.

Schools are losing teachers at an unprecedented rate*
Quartz: During the pandemic, teachers became less certain that they would work in the classroom until retirement.

The problem with angels: Confronting racism in hospice care
Bearings Online: After almost a decade of being a hospice chaplain, Zeena Regis is still uncomfortable being called an angel.

Pope Francis: Rigidity in the church ‘is a sin against the patience of God’*
America: Pope Francis addressed roughly 1,000 representatives from the Diocese of Rome to speak about the upcoming church-wide synod.

‘We don’t want people to be in a panic,’ says chief of Taliban morality police
The Guardian: In his first interview with western media, Kandahar’s enforcer promises things will be different from the brutal 1990s.

The Spark

In 1998, these SF men got a tattoo to snag free tacos for life. Here’s what happened after.
Twenty-two years ago, Casa Sanchez in San Francisco estimated that its notorious tacos-for-tattoos deal would cost somewhere in the ballpark of $5.8 million, SFGate says.

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