From The Boston Globe:  Dozens of students who attended Boston’s only Catholic high school for girls are scrambling to make new plans for the fall after the board of trustees at Elizabeth Seton Academy voted this week to close. Kailana Harriott, 17, who was entering her senior year at the Dorchester school, said she learned Wednesday that classes would not resume. “It was sad. It’s also frustrating . . . I have a month essentially to find a new place... Read more

This piece from The Washington Post should be one most of us can relate to. It takes note of some recent polls that discovered something unsurprising: online harassment over politics has exploded during this election cycle. The reasons are varied, but here’s a glimpse: According to a recent Weber Shandwick survey, 95 percent of all Americans consider incivility a “problem.” Seventy percent consider it a crisis, which is up from 65 percent in 2014. Experts agree that this incivility has... Read more

From Katherine Ozment in The Boston Globe: The most disturbing of the leaked e-mails from the Democratic National Committee is the one suggesting that Bernie Sanders’s supposed atheism could be used to Hillary Clinton’s advantage. “Does [Sanders] believe in a God,” a DNC executive asks. “He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps.” The top staffer’s peeps aside, for the growing... Read more

From Reuters: A North Carolina man was arrested Thursday on a charge of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State militant group by attempting to recruit people to carry out an attack in the United States, the Justice Department said. Erick Jamal Hendricks, 35, of Charlotte, contacted another man online in the spring of 2015, who was later arrested after attempting to purchase an AK-47 from an undercover officer, according to a court complaint. Hendricks told another unnamed... Read more

Details:  A Roman Catholic Priest has been appointed as one of the clergy at Belfast’s Anglican Cathedral for the first time ever. The bold move sees Fr Edward O’Donnell, who’s been a Catholic priest for 40 years, join the Chapter of St Anne’s Church of Ireland Cathedral. He is one of three ‘ecumenical canons’ to be part of the team along with two women – both co-incidentally called Rev Ruth Patterson. One is the first woman to be ordained in... Read more

Having just celebrated my 30th wedding anniversary a couple months ago, I found this post on Aleteia’s home page really struck a chord: A long-married friend posted this on my Facebook wall recently: “Marriage is until death, not until you stop trying.” After I, also long-married, finished laughing, I took a moment to consider people whose marriages ended despite their trying very hard. After that, I considered some of the things that make love last—and who better to ask about... Read more

You may have seen this item—about the vice president presiding at a same-sex wedding—yesterday. Some readers and commenters have called for disciplining Biden, even to the point of excommunicating him. It’s not that simple. Canon lawyer Ed Peters writes: Biden, a Roman Catholic, went out of his way to act with contempt for infallible Church teaching that marriage (everybody’s marriage, not just Catholics’ marriages) can only exist between one man and one woman. In short, Biden is daring the Church... Read more

From CNN: In the first case of a US police officer charged with aiding ISIS, a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority cop was arrested Wednesday for providing material support to ISIS, the Justice Department announced. Nicholas Young was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday but was on law enforcement’s radar since 2010, according to an affidavit released with Young’s arrest. There was no evidence of any threat to the DC Metro system. Young will make his first appearance in court... Read more

From the Archdiocese of Detroit website:  Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron was moved this week to have received correspondences from local Imams on behalf of Michigan Muslims, expressing condolences for the death of Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel, who was killed by terrorists in Normandy, France, on July 26. “We are greatly saddened and troubled to hear of his tragic death and wish to express our sadness that so humble a servant of God was called to his Lord in such... Read more