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Prof. Rice is a very good man...and this year's recipient of the Laetare Medal will most certainly blast Obama from the very podium where he will have to deliver his commencement address, since she goes first.

Mary Ann Glendon, a professor at Harvard Law School who recently stepped down as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will receive the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal at commencement ceremonies May 17. She is a pro lifers' pro lifer. We alums are hoping she will make appropriate comments about Obama's terrible positions on abortion and embryonic stem cell research. Glendon speaks immediately prior to Obama.

The nonsense coming out of Notre Dame is to use her as cover for their ghastly error in allowing Obama to speak. Fr. Jenkins likes to think of himself as an intellectual leader of a free thinking university that allows all kinds of diverse thought. He has proved this to be in error by allowing the Vagina Monologues to continue to be played as a means of cozying up to the faculty senate. Now he has shown his continued visual flaw by allowing Obama to speak all in the name of tradition. Ugh....

Performances of The V Monologues are NOT a scholarly or academic exercise. That's just absurd. An academic debate and discussion of such issues would have to involve Catholic moral points of view, discussion of teachings on marriage, theology of the body, etc. Not just hysterical women shouting obscenities. So claiming that allowing The V Monologues to be performed is about "academic freedom" is BS, baloney, and liberal propaganda. There is a pattern here. A Catholic priest should not be pandering to liberal propaganda. Particularly of the anti-Catholic kind. It's as if they are saying that what Vatican II and the Land O'Lakes conference on modernizing Catholic colleges were really about was having neurotic lesbians shout obscenities in classrooms. That's ridiculous. And that kind of crap needs to stop on Catholic campuses.