Mary Ann Glendon

Mary Ann Glendon (October 7, 1938 –) is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She teaches and writes on bioethics, comparative constitutional law, property, and human rights in international law.

Mary Ann Glendon

Quotes

• This is a time when the institutional church at every level is badly in need of lay assistance. Go into it with your eyes open, but also, go into it with the recognition that the church has a special need right now, and that laypeople can enable the clergy to do what they were called to do, what they were trained to do and what they can do best. We can take some of that burden off of the clergy.
  • US ambassador to three popes says the church needs lay assistance at every level (29 March 2024) Catholic Review