Declining Notre Dame: A First Things News Flash

Just checking my email, found this one.

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From: Joe Carter <jcarter@firstthings.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM

Mary Ann Glendon has declined the Laetare Medal, the annual award from Notre Dame, which she was to receive this spring at the university's graduation ceremonies. 

At 9:30 this morning, April 27, 2009, Mary Ann Glendon faxed to the university's president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and published online at First Things (http://www.firstthings.com/blog/2009/04/27/declining-notre-dame-a-letter-from-mary-ann-glendon/) a letter explaining her decision to refuse the medal.

Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A member of the editorial and advisory board of <em>First Things</em>, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican from 2007 to 2009.

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Joe Carter
Web Editor
First Things
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