That type of gentle needling has been part of intra-Catholic repartee for decades. It demonstrates good-humored acknowledgement that a friend takes Catholicism very seriously. Going beyond Church rules, the "more Catholic" friend is making sacrifices or acting generously in ways that far exceed expectations. For example, a Catholic may voluntarily observe the pre-Vatican II sacrifices regarding meatless Fridays throughout the entire calendar year, rather than during the sacrificial Lenten season only, as required of all Catholics.
The Obama-era "preponderance of evidence" standard used to adjudicate allegations of campus sexual assault — in which the accused is barred from directly questioning his or her accuser — is officially over.
On Friday the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announced the scrapping of the executive order, originally enacted via a series of "dear colleague" letters drafted in 2011 and fired off to colleges and universities across the country in April of that year.
