Ex-president says institution prizes the clerical male above women, truth, and abused childrenThe “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...