Posted by
KsReaganite on Monday, April 27, 2009 9:52:55 PM
I have spoken about this woman before on this blog, but I guess she never ceases to surprise me. A liberal civil rights activist of the sixties, former NAACP lawyer and single mother, a feminist professor…you’d think KsReaganite is gone nuts paying another compliment to Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon (readers remember when I had hoped she would be appointed Attorney General when Alberto Gonzalez resigned).
But this law professor has got something that is rare amongst lawyers, almost unheard of amongst Ivy League faculty members, and utterly non-existent amongst those who hope to advance their careers in public life: quiet decency.
When America’s premier Roman Catholic university wanted to use her as a prop to cover its sycophantic worship of Barack Obama, Mary Ann Glendon politely, quietly, and honorably refused. In doing so, she foregoes the most prestigious award given by a Catholic institution of higher learning, angers most of her Harvard colleagues, and destroys any chance that her immense wisdom may be called upon in the halls of today’s power.
Impressed, yes. Surprised, no. Anyone who knows of the exploits of this woman in the sixties during the Civil Rights movement, knows how dear principle is to her. That a Catholic academic, or any American Catholic for that matter, would forego the Laetare Medal is incredible. The enormity of the act should impress upon Father Jenkins and his CSC brothers the even greater enormity of their disappinting act of bending before temporal power.
Notre Dame, literally translated ‘Our Lady’, is thus named in honor of St. Mary, the mother of Jesus. Today, for a brief blasphemous second, permit me to reflect that Mary Ann Glendon is ‘notre dame’ for a lot of folks who are outraged at the despicable sycophancy of Father Jenkin’s crew at South Bend.