"who claims to be Catholic" /spit
Posted on 01/16/2019 6:57:21 PM PST by marshmallow
BOSTON, Massachusetts, January 15, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-abortion and pro-homosexual former Irish president Mary McAleese, who claims to be Catholic, may have been caught in a lie when she recently told an audience that Pope John Paul II refused to shake her hand.
McAleese, 67, who was president of Ireland, a largely ceremonial position, from November 1997 to November 2011, made headlines last week by claiming that St. John Paul was rude to her because, she insinuated, she was a female leader.
According to Irish Central and the Boston Globe, McAleese spoke at an event sponsored by the Irish American Partnership detailing sexist slights she claimed to have suffered from prelates, including the late pontiff and the late Cardinal Law of Boston.
McAleese alleged that John Paul II refused to shake her hand when they met, shaking her husband’s hand instead. She alleged also that the late pontiff had asked her husband, “Would you not prefer to be the president of Ireland instead of your wife?”
McAleese then claimed she reproved the pope, saying: “You would never have done that to a male president. I’m the elected president of Ireland whether you like it or not.”
However, an Irish newspaper account of the 1999 meeting between the pope and the Irish president — the first meeting she had with the Pope as the president of Ireland — tells quite a different story. According to an Irish Independent story dated February 13, 1999, then-President McAleese shook the pope’s hand.
“The Pope looked frail and walked with the aid of a stick but was clearly in very good form as he held out his hand to greet the President,” the Independent reported.
“Mrs McAleese, her head covered by a fine lace shawl but not her face, shook the...........
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"who claims to be Catholic" /spit
The Ireland of my ancestors is dead. Today it’s just another of dozens of filthy little European cesspools.
If she really was Catholic, she needed to kneel before him and kiss his ring.
A lying leftist fascist politician = shocked!
Lie about a Saint.
Pffffft
"We should remember Pope John Paul II not just as the greatest pope of modern times but also as a valiant fighter for the truth. His life was a long struggle against the lies employed to excuse evil. By combating the falsehoods of communism and proclaiming the true dignity of the individual, his was the moral force behind victory in the Cold War." Millions owe him their freedom and self-respect. The whole world is inspired by his example.
. Millions owe him their freedom and self-respect. The whole world is inspired by his example."
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I always wondered what will happen to the IRA and “Irish nationalism?”
Ireland simply has become another neutered suburb of Brussels, and their culture has quickly gone post-modern, secular, materialist and cliched leftist. Another meaningless strip-mall parking lot culture.
Who will want to fight for anything that is supposedly “Irish?”
Feminist outrage is not becoming.
The RC Church needed to take action against this supporter of baby-killing and many others like her years, and years ago. But, I guess they couldn’t be bothered, too busy diddlying alter boys, etc.
I wouldn’t shake her f*** hand eother
Oh, I thought this was about the Islamic pope.
McAleese and Creepy Joe:
If’n she’s pro-abortion and pro-homosexual, she ain’t Catholic, because she has excommunicated herself.
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