Wednesday's News & Ideas - 4/23/2025
- Who runs the papal conclave?
- Reporting ‘anti-Christian bias’
- Gen Z flocking to church
- Mourners at the National Shrine
- Church attendance standards
- The only female pigeon keeper
‘A bloke called Kevin from Dublin’: Irish-American cardinal who will run papal conclave
The Guardian: Kevin Farrell rose through the ecclesiastical ranks to be made camerlengo by Pope Francis, whose death has thrust him into the global spotlight.
Veterans Affairs asks employees in email to report ‘anti-Christian bias’
Religion News Service: The email, prompted by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in February, makes no mention of how to report bias or discrimination against other faiths.
The Conversation: Claims of ‘anti-Christian bias’ sound to some voters like a message about race, not just religion
Make Christianity cool again: Why Gen Z is flocking to church
The Independent: As a new report suggests that the number of young churchgoers has quadrupled, Helen Coffey investigates this potential UK spiritual revival — and asks why the next generation is more likely to be keeping the faith.
At nation’s largest Catholic Church, honoring ‘the pope of the people’*
The Washington Post: Mourners young and old flocked to Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast D.C.
Americans have higher church attendance standards than pastors
Religion Unplugged: Most Americans may not regularly attend church themselves, but they have a higher threshold for calling someone a regular churchgoer than pastors.
The Spark
Inside the life of Old Delhi’s only female pigeon keeper
In the male-dominated world of Delhi’s kabootarbazi, one woman’s passion for her birds has earned her respect, admiration — and a place in the sky, writes the BBC.
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