Ann Glendon News Today

The legal scholar and former ambassador to the Vatican will receive the inaugural Fiat Award from the GIVEN Institute

The honoring of people like Mary Ann Glendon and Raymond Flynn sends a message of faith, hope and love to a culture in crisis

The conservative Christian group that overturned Roe v. Wade has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it wants religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws. David D. Kirkpatrick reports.

Which American has wielded the most actual power in the Vatican at his or her peak, regardless of whether you agree with how they used it?

Dominican Sr. Helen Alford has been a member of the academy since 2020 and will be the third woman to lead the group of scholars.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has named Dominican Sister Helen Alford, dean of the faculty of social sciences at the Angelicum University in Rome, to be president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The Vatican announced the appointment of Sister Alford, 58, April 1. She has been a member of the academy since 2020 and will be the third woman to lead the group of scholars. Mary Ann Glendon, a professor of law and former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, served as president 2004-20

Mary Ann Glendon, professor emerita at Harvard Law School, was president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2004-14) and US ambassador to the Holy See (2008-09).

Sudan's radical Islamic regime has created one of the world's worsthuman rights situations and one of its largest humanitarian crises.But approaching Sudan's internal crisis as purely a humanitarianissue is self-defeating.

Leading the Ann Arbor Symphony is on Sarah Calderini’s 2022 agenda. We meet Sarah, the Symphony’s newly-appointed executive director, and hear what’s on

This theme, Family Law in America and Europe (circa 1988), is the second of two themes ruminated by Mary Ann Glendon and Bill Moyers in the PBS series ...