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Catholic Democrats Attack Glendon And Run Into Father Z

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Father Z plays whack-a-mole here with the attack on Mary Ann Glendon by Catholic Democrats, a group which has experienced a ferocious fisk from him before.   Jay Anderson at Pro Ecclesia has some perceptive thoughts in his post “… Dollars to Doughnuts …” regarding the attacks on Mary Ann Glendon now coming from some elements of the Catholic Left.

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jh
Wednesday, April 29, AD 2009 10:38pm

By the way I did not know till today till I read the Catholic Thing that Envoy Glendon was a Democrat

Michael J. Iafrate
Thursday, April 30, AD 2009 12:43am

Perhaps you and Jay Anderson and your followers (including your padawan, Tito) could acknowledge that some of us on “the” Catholic “Left” are applauding Glendon’s decision:

http://vox-nova.com/2009/04/27/mary-ann-glendon-refuses-notre-dame-award/

http://vox-nova.com/2009/04/27/mary-ann-glendon-refuses-notre-dame-award/#comment-53974

http://vox-nova.com/2009/04/27/mary-ann-glendon-refuses-notre-dame-award/#comment-53976

Jay Anderson
Thursday, April 30, AD 2009 7:00am

I applaud all of those who are standing up for Ambassador Glendon. If you are among them, thank you.

That said, I don’t believe I have implied that EVERYONE on the Catholic “left” has attacked her. In fact, I specifically referred to a “subset” of those who might be described as “left”.

My point was to highlight that the attacks on Ambassador Glendon that Mr. Winters was SURE would come from the “right wing” never materialized and instread came from those who are more in tune with Mr. Winters’ way of thinking.

Michael J. Iafrate
Thursday, April 30, AD 2009 10:01am

It is also important to consider than our (maybe my, I speak for myself here) reasons for applauding her decision are slightly different than yours.

Jay Anderson
Thursday, April 30, AD 2009 2:53pm

Actually, I’m not sure how “important” it really is.

By the way, folks might want to read UPDATE #3 to my post, which is somewhat enlightening. It seems that Michael Sean Winters, who was so sure – “I bet dollars to doughnuts …” – that the so-called “right wing” would turn on Amb. Glendon and begin to attack her, and who attempted to appropriate to himself the moral high ground by declaring what a travesty it would be for the so-called “right wing” to “throw[] overboard” such a “source of pride for all Catholics”, has now decided that Amb. Glendon was not such a worthy honoree after all.

http://americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&id=62180906-3048-741E-9232230110353592

What a partisan git.

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