The ordination of female deacons is no longer on the agenda during a global assembly at the Vatican, but will be discussed separately. (Povoledo, The New York Times)
Read MorePresented with a more-equal playing field, young women are seizing the opportunities in front of them, while young men are floundering. The phenomenon has developed over the past decade, but was supercharged by the pandemic, which derailed careers, schooling and isolated friends and families. (Wolfe, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreKnown in English as the Surrealist Manifesto, it set out the radical ideas of a new cultural movement. Breton defined Surrealism as ‘pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express — verbally, in writing, or in any other manner — the true function of thought, in the absence of control exerted by reason, and exempt from all aesthetic or moral concern’. (Smart, Christie's)
Read MoreIn recent years, several new options have emerged in the social media universe, many of which explicitly present themselves as alternatives to more established social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – especially by opposing free speech restrictions they say are rife at those sites. (Stocking et al., Pew Research Center)
Read MoreExtremists are using artificial intelligence to reanimate Adolf Hitler online for a new generation, recasting the Nazi German leader who orchestrated the Holocaust as a “misunderstood” figure whose antisemitic and anti-immigrant messages are freshly resonant in politics today. (Verma & Oremus, The Washington Post)
Read MorePornography use has continued to climb over the past decade, especially among young people who are exposed to explicit images earlier than ever. Yet most Americans today don’t see porn as a bad thing for society, and many Christians say they aren’t worried about its effects. (Baer, Christianity Today)
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