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Glendon has served as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences since its founding.
Hand Professor of Law Mary Ann Glendon was named president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on Tuesday by Pope John Paul II, according to a statement released by the Vatican.
The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences was created by the pope in 1994 to advise the church on its social doctrine from an academic perspective. The body helps keep the church abreast of current scholarship in the social sciences.
DIED. DAVID BRINKLEY, 82, pioneering TV newsman whose clipped, sardonic voice was among the medium's most recognizable and respected for four decades; of complications from a fall at his home; in Houston. Born in North Carolina, he reported for United Press before moving to Washington in 1943 to work...
DIED. FRANCOIS XAVIER NGUYEN VAN CARDINAL THUAN, 74, Vietnamese clergyman who spent his 13-year imprisonment under the communist regime emulating St. Paul by smuggling out messages to his followers and evangelizing his jailers; in Vatican City. Born into a prominent Catholic family?his uncle was former South Vietnamese President...