Amidst the uproar of the controversy arising over President Obama's scheduled commencement address at Notre Dame, the fact that others had been invited as award recipients has been lost. Among those to receive awards was Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See who was to receive the prestigious Laetare Medal from the university.
Ambassador Glendon was in part drawn into the controversy when the Notre Dame administration in an apparent attempt to circle the wagons and deflect criticism, implied that the presence of and remarks by Ambassador Glendon would in some way offset the presence of President Obama and lend an aura of catholicity to the event.
Refusing to be used as a pawn, Ambassador Glendon sent a very gracious letter to Presdent Jenkins of Notre Dame declining the Laetare Medal.
Good on you!!
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