Mary McAleese Says ‘Game is Almost Up’ for All-Male Catholic Church

The Irish Times ^ | 3/11/19 | Patsy McGarry

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Ex-president says institution prizes the clerical male above women, truth, and abused children

The “game is almost up” for the all-male Catholic Church, former president Mary McAleese has said.

She said the church’s “clericalised citadel is increasingly of zero interest to many Christian women who grow up in the Catholic tradition”.

“The church prizes the clerical male above all others in the church. Above women, above truth and disgracefully above clerically abused children. The game is almost up,” she said.

Mrs McAleese was speaking after an announcement by theologian Mary T Malone (80) that she is leaving the “men’s church” to become “a member of women’s Christianity, a loose association of women’s groups who celebrate their Christian faith outside the Catholic Church”.

A nun for 17 years before she married her late husband, Ms Malone retired back to Ireland in 1997 after teaching theology for almost 40 years in Canada.

Living in Wexford, she is the author of a trilogy on Women and Christianity (2000, 2001, 2003); Praying with the Women Mystics (2006); and The Elephant in the Church: A Woman’s Tract for Our Times (2014).

A revised edition of the latter book was republished in Dublin last Friday to mark International Women’s Day.

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There goes religious choice.

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Mary McAleese Says ‘Game is Almost Up’ for All-Male the Catholic Church

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I’m proud of my Irish heritage - from the time my family left. Ireland is dead today, just a low-rent imitation of Americans. Most of the best and brightest left years ago (as in most European countries) - so it should be no surprised that those left cling to nanny states to make all decisions for them and protect them from the consequences of their bad choices.