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...
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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 disagrees with. Find more Mary Ann Glendon news and information here.
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard Law Professor, 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 disagrees with. Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard Law Professor, declined a prestigious Laetare Medal from Notre Dame due to the school's decision to give an honorary degree to Barack Obama, whose pro-choice stance she disagrees with. She annoucned the decision by sending a public letter to Notre Dame president... Read Full Story
A priest, Father Norman Weslin, was arrested at Nortre Dame yesterday for taking a stand for the protection of the unborn. I truly must be missing something here. I mean are protestor not allowed at Notre Dame?
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More Arrests at Notre Dame, including Pro-life Priest, as ... May 15, 2009
By Randy Sly Dr. Alan Keyes and Fr. Norman Weslin the Founder of Lambs for Christ were among those arrested. No bail has been set. ... Read Full Story
O speaking @ University of Notre Dame - SHAMEFUL! Watch the response of the students and Alumni who are PRO-LIFE ... @: http://www.ndresponse.com ************Mary Ann Glendon - former Ambassador to the Vatican 2007-2009 - will NOT receive Laetare Medal - which she was very interested in receiving and very HONORED until she found out that Prez. O who's Pro-Choice to the inth degree was invited to Univ. of N.D.'s commencement. This is one who is standing on her principles REGARDLESS of the... Read Full Story
Even though the "pope's newspaper" accentuated the positive when it finally responded to the dust-up over Pres. Obama speaking at Notre Dame, Archbishop Chaput of Denver continues on his fundamentalist path by slamming Notre Dame's president, Fr. John Jenkins, in an article posted on the Archdiocese's website on Sunday.
In doing so (inviting Obama), Notre Dame ignored the U.S. bishops’ guidance in their 2004 statement, Catholics in Political Life . It ignored the concerns of Ambassador... Read Full Story
In recent days, the controversy of the honorary degree to be given out to President Obama at University of Notre Dame has put the spotlight on a pretense of superiority the pro-choice ivory tower elitists impose on pro-life Catholic. The decision has put the graduating students in the middle of the mess and that is unfortunate. Let me begin by stating that I am not Catholic. I was raised in the Presbyterian church. And I am a pro-choice Republican woman. I am a proud member of the Baby Boomer... Read Full Story
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