In John Allen's recent column, we read of the appointment of Professor Mary Ann Glendon to the position of President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Prof. Glendon is one of those key people, to whom the Vatican turns, when it needs a lay person to say something that clerics cannot say with much credibility. She is a rarity in Catholic circles, because she is a high-profile, well-educated woman, who agrees with the Pope on crucial matters of Church teaching. May God bless her and grant success in the role to which she has been entrusted.
