Wednesday’s News & Ideas - 6/11/2025
- Leaders protest Trump budget
- Pride festival in small town
- Vatican’s debt
- Crisis for some Muslims in tech
- Americans see religion’s influence
- Working for Highsmith
Religious leaders protest cuts to Medicaid, SNAP in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
Deseret News: Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the U.S. Capitol alongside Democratic senators to protest what they say are “immoral” cuts to the budget.
LGBTQ teens wanted a Pride festival in their town. How five churches made it happen.
Religion News Service: Five churches organized the event out of a conviction of their faith, but as an invisible network.
Can an American pope apply US-style fundraising and standards to fix troubled Vatican finances?
The Associated Press: That kind of make-do-with-less, fix-it-yourself mentality could serve Pope Leo XIV well as he addresses one of the greatest challenges facing him as pope: The Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 million euro ($57-68 million) structural deficit.
More Americans see religion increasing its influence in U.S.
Gallup: Though still the minority view at 34%, it is up from 20% a year ago.
As big tech grows more involved in Gaza, Muslim workers are wrestling with a spiritual crisis
The Guardian: As the war endures and Palestinians in Gaza are being starved, forcibly displaced and killed, there’s a growing group of Muslim staffers who are unsure whether they can religiously justify working at companies that they view as effectively defense contractors.
The Spark
The talented Ms. Highsmith
I worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me, Elena Gosalvez Blanco writes for The Yale Review.
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