Wednesday's News & Ideas - 1/11/2023
- George Pell dies
- CofE setting up reparations
- Medical bus wins award
- Glass Onion
- Birth control teaching
- Former Guantánamo prisoners
Cardinal George Pell, whose sex abuse convictions were overturned, dies at 81
Associated Press: Cardinal George Pell, who was the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sex abuse and spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia only to have his convictions overturned, died Tuesday. He was 81.
Church of England setting up £100m fund to ‘address past wrongs’ of slave trade links
The Guardian: Church to back community projects to compensate for financially benefiting from chattel slavery.
Wheel and heal: Medical bus wins award for church innovation
Christianity Today: After hospitals closed in rural Tennessee, church volunteers stepped in to provide basic care, cut hair, and pull teeth.
Glass Onion threads the Agatha Christie needle*
Christian Century: A murder mystery can provide sharp social commentary — and great fun.
Is Catholic teaching on birth control driving people from the pews?
Religion News Service: Catholics’ adherence to the church’s teaching seems to depend in part on how often the person attends Mass.
The Spark
They won Guantánamo’s Supreme Court cases. Where are they now?
The three former Guantánamo prisoners* who defeated George W. Bush at the Supreme Court in landmark cases are ensconced in family life. We caught up with two of them, The New York Times says.
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