Whoops - No Glendon on the dais now!

Kenneth Woodward, writing in the Washington Post on March 30th:

"The nation's Catholic bishops have another sticky issue on their plates. President Obama has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame in May and to receive the customary honorary degree. It is quite a coup for the nation's most resonantly Catholic university. American Catholics and their bishops should be proud."

But here's where it gets good - Woodward continues:

On the dais at Notre Dame, Obama will find a familiar face: Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon, Bush's ambassador to the Vatican, who will receive this year's Laetare Medal in part for her peerless defense of human life. It's important that the president hear her message as well as deliver his own. It is equally important that this kind of engagement take place at a university devoted to both faith and reason. Where else but in a university setting should we expect this kind of principled presentation of issues?

I quote this as a reminder that Woodward and defenders of Notre Dame's decision were already trying to make Glendon's appearance serve as a foil against the statements of U.S. bishops. Well, that won't work anymore.