Notre Dame: There's more..

Amid controversy over its chosen
commencement speaker, it's now emerged that President Obama will share the Notre Dame stage with the "first lady" of American Catholicism.

At this hour, as the bells of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart toll in Laetare Sunday, the university has announced Mary Ann Glendon -- the Harvard Law star, pro-life force, Vatican A-lister and, until January, former President Bush's ambassador to the Holy See -- as its 2009 recipient of the Stateside church's oldest and most prestigious honor, the Laetare Medal. (See the complete post at Whispers in the Loggia.)

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  1. I STILL don't want "The Monitor" to speak at Notre Dame. Give reverance to our Mother and don't defame her great name!

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  2. I suppose we are supposed to be appeased??

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