Mary Ann Glendon

Mary Ann Glendon is a Harvard Law Professor and former US ambassador to the Holy See. She declined a prestigious Laetare Medal from Notre Dame due to their decision to give an honorary degree to Barack Obama, whose pro-choice stance she... [more]

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Dorothy Day on Obama at Notre Dame

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Barack Obama got down with the Catholic Social Justice lingo in the Notre Dame commencement speech . However, as you might expect, it was a much different speech than the one he gave to Planned Parenthood on July 17, 2007: Is the man who denigrated pro-life advocates as being unhip nitwits in the culture wars “which are so 1990” the same tolerant guy who said this to the Notre Dame graduating class of 2009? “ Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature.” ... Read Full Story

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Glendon Says No To Notre Dame

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By William Donahue Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon has written an open letter to Notre Dame president Rev. John Jenkins explaining why she cannot accept the Laetare Medal on Commencement Day, May 17. Glendon took note of the University’s decision to award President Barack Obama an honorary degree, something which flies in the face of the express will of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB): in 2004, the USCCB issued a document requesting Catholic institutions to not honor “those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.” In her letter, Glendon also took exception to official statements by Notre Dame ... Read Full Story

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Notre Dame's Obama invite riles Catholic bishops

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This coming week, Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, Fla., will take the unusual step of celebrating a Mass of Reparation, to make amends for sins against God. The motivation: to provide an outlet for Catholics upset with what Wenski calls the University of Notre Dame's "clueless" decision to invite President Barack Obama to speak at its commencement and receive an honorary doctorate May 17. The nation's flagship Catholic university's honoring of a politician whose abortion rights record clashes with a fundamental church teaching has triggered a reaction among the nation's Catholic bishops that is remarkable in scope and tone, ... Read Full Story

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Mary Ann Glendon: Proudly Pro-Life

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Mary Ann Glendon has long been known in legal circles. She taught at Boston College Law School from 1968 to 1986, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the Gregorian University in Rome. She has received honorary doctorates from numerous universities including the Universities of Chicago and Louvain. She was elected President of the UNESCO sponsored International Association of Legal Science in 1991. She writes and teaches in the fields of bioethics, human rights in international law, comparative constitutional law, property, and legal theory. She won the Scribes Book Award given by the American Society of Writers ... Read Full Story

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'What (the hell) Happened to Notre Dame?' (and no, it ain't Charlie Weis)

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By Matt C. Abbott Noted Catholic scholar/writer Charles E. Rice, professor emeritus of law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, has authored a new book titled What Happened to Notre Dame?, published by St. Augustine's Press. From the Web site of St. Augustine's Press: 'When the University of Notre Dame announced that President Barack Obama would speak at its 2009 Commencement and would receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, the reaction was more than anyone expected. Students, faculty, alumni, and friends of Notre Dame denounced the honoring of Obama, who is the most relentlessly pro-abortion public official in the world. Beyond ... Read Full Story

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Bradley Series Hosts Final Lecture

Last Friday in the McGuinn Hall auditorium, Mary Ann Glendon, a professor at Harvard University Law School and former United States Ambassador to the Holy See, brought a fresh start to a new school year, and an end to an era. Glendon, who presented a lecture titled "Cicero and Burke on Politics and Vocation," was the final speaker in the University's long-running Bradley Lecture Series.

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Glendon honored as heroine of the Notre Dame commencement tragedy

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Mary Ann Glendon was "the heroine of the Notre Dame commencement tragedy" in May, an official of the National Right to Life Committee said as the Harvard law professor and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican received the organization's Proudly Pro-Life Award Oct. 6. Anthony J. Lauinger, vice president of the pro-life organization and the father of eight University of Notre Dame alumni, said Glendon's "principled refusal" of...

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