Academy of Social Science in Session

(01 May 09 - RV) The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences opens its Plenary Assembly today, with Pope Benedict XVI’s 2008 address to the United Nations the focus of their meeting.


Harvard Law Professor and former US ambassador to the Holy See, Mary Ann Glendon, is president of the Academy. She spoke to us ahead of today’s assembly about why this papal discourse and the challenges it lays down one year on: