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...Harvard Law School professor declared yesterday that she will not accept a prestigious award for American Catholics from the University of Notre Dame, citing concerns over the university’s decision to grant commencement speaker President Barack Obama an honorary degree...
According to a letter Glendon wrote to Notre Dame University President John I. Jenkins, the university had issued “talking points” suggesting that her presence at the commencement would “balance” Obama’s pro-choice views...
...recent weeks, controversy has swelled over Obama’s invitation to speak at Notre Dame, but school officials have downplayed the criticism the university has recently faced from the Catholic community...
...time there’s a politician, there are going to be positions that are contrary to church teaching,” said Notre Dame spokesman Dennis K. Brown, who noted that former president George W. Bush’s support of the death penalty also engendered criticism before his 2001 appearance at the school...
...Democratic Governor (and pro-choice Catholic) Kathleen Sebelius to be HHS Secretary and have circulated unfounded rumors that the Vatican rejected several candidates to be Obama's ambassador there. Most visibly, the right-wing Cardinal Newman Society and a number of Catholic bishops have protested the University of Notre Dame's decision to invite Obama to speak at this spring's commencement. Even Cardinal Francis George, who sat down in the Oval Office for a half-hour meeting on St. Patrick's Day that he hoped would "foster fruitful dialogue for the sake of the common good," slammed the school...