With Mary Ann Glendon having declined to receive the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame —  because of the way she was being used as a way of balancing the university’s controversial and Bishop-defying decision to honor President Obama — one has to wonder exactly who Notre Dame will pick as their second choice. They will [...]

With the movie-version of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons about to be released, the director, Ron Howard, is eager to paint the movie in a positive light. So when William Donohue of the Catholic League complained of the makers’ “animus against all things Catholic”, Howard penned a note to the Huffington Post, complaining that the [...]