What’s a day in the Catholic universe without at least one? At Pontifications I posted about a column by Mary Ann Glendon’s daughter, Liz Lev, defending her mother against criticism of her withdrawal. And another post is about, yes, an anti-abortion group flying a plane with a banner of aborted fetuses over Notre Dame for several hours a day up through commencement, when Obama will speak. The group also plans to drive similarly decorated billboard trucks around the area. I continually wonder where this all came from, and most of all, where it is all going.

David Gibson is director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University and an occasional contributor to Commonweal.

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