Good for Mary Ann Glendon. I applaud her standing on principle. “See you Laetare!”
Only you would come up with that. Magnificent!
Notice, tho, that she said ^nothing^ regarding a position on abortion. Her declination was based purely on "the declarations of men". To wit that RC universities should not "provide...honors"to those who do not uphold the values of the Church.
Glendon, in summary, said, if you won't uphold the edicts of the bureaucracy, She won't participate. (CF my XPian News article regarding "Institutionalization of the LCMS", 2004)
"I see Dr. Mary Ann Glendon's refusal to provide cover for Notre Dame's inexcusable conferral of honors on a prominent pro-abortion politician as an application of Canon 209.1 "The Christian faithful, even in their own manner of acting, are always obliged to maintain communion with the Church", or of Canon 225.2 "According to each one's own condition, [laity] are also bound by a particular duty to imbue and perfect the order of temporal affairs with the spirit of the gospel and thus to give witness to Christ, especially in carrying out these same affairs and in exercising secular functions.
"The evil that ND President Jenkins and his Board of Trustees committed has, Deus laudetur, occasioned one of the most striking displays of episcopal fortitude I can remember, mobilized hundreds of thousands of American Catholics against another quiet surrender to the Culture of Death, and has effected notice to several once great Catholic institutions that it's time, finally, to decide where they stand."