Integrity. Courage.

Integrity is something that does not often rear its head in today's world of 'tolerance'. Courage is something that it takes to stand up for one's beliefs in a day when 'tolerance' is preached and cheered. 'Tolerance' with a small 't', means that anything and everything must be accepted, regardless of the inherent rightness or wrongness, for today, there 'is no right or wrong'. Today, what one wishes to do or believe is ok, for that person, and should never be pressed upon another, UNLESS it involves the "PC" viewpoints of the day.

Relativism--what is right for you may not be right for another..

Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon has integrity and courage. CONGRATULATIONS!

An EXCELLENT article, here, in National Catholic Register needs to be read in full, as it gives the history of Notre Dame's activities over the past several decades in flaunting Catholic teaching.

The article ends:

Mary Ann Glendon Bears Witness
It could not have been easy for Glendon to decline the Laetare Medal — after all, she is deserving of it, and the people who nominated her for it are now put in an awkward position. Glendon is proud of her Notre Dame connections, including the 1996 honorary degree that she was awarded. No doubt she is proud of her former student Barack Obama for his laudable achievements. No doubt she would have preferred a quieter honor, one which would not have forced her to choose sides. It is to Father Jenkins’s shame that he tried to use Glendon. It is to her great credit that she refused to be used.

In her life of extraordinary accomplishments, the witness given by Glendon by not going to Notre Dame next month is something of a crowning achievement. It matters a great deal that a celebrated laywoman is rejecting this honor. Notre Dame long ago learned how to disregard the advice, admonishment and even the explicit will of the American bishops. For this they paid no apparent price, as there were always those who were willing to take what Notre Dame was offering, including successive presidents of the United States.

Now someone has finally said No. And not just someone, but a woman who has ennobled everything she has lent her name to. It will be noticed on May 17 that someone thought some things more important than Notre Dame’s honors; that someone thought some things more important than basking in the glow of a popular president; that someone thought 25 years of deliberate confusion, evasion, equivocation and deception from Notre Dame on abortion politics was enough.

Glendon will not collect her Laetare Medal. In not doing so, she has proved worthy of the honor; please God, her courageous decision will make Notre Dame more worthy of the honors it seeks to give.

"Right is right, even if no one is right.

Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is wrong."

~~Bishop Fulton J. Sheen