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  • McAleese Calls on Pope to Remove ‘Offensive Sexist’ Document from Vatican Website

    09/27/2022 6:27:33 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 36 replies
    The Irish Times ^ | 9/20/22 | Patsy McGarry
    Former president says material ‘offends all women and the creator who made them’Former president Mary McAleese has called on Pope Francis to remove “awful material” from a Vatican website set up in 2016 which she said “offends all women and the creator who made them”. The document, which blames all human ills on women, including the death of Jesus Christ, appears on the website of the Dicastery (Department) for the Laity, the Family and Life. It appears in English, French and Italian, but not in Spanish or Portuguese translations. Written by Tertullian, one of the early church fathers who died...
  • Catholic Teaching on Unborn Right to Eternal Life ‘Pathetic’, Says [Former Irish President] McAleese

    02/16/2021 6:08:19 PM PST · by marshmallow · 20 replies
    Irish Times ^ | 2/15/21 | Patsy McGarry
    Former president claims the church is failing those who die unbaptised before or at birth The Catholic Church’s failure to reflect its concern for the right to life of the unborn with a smilar concern for the right to eternal life of those who die unbaptised before or at birth has been highlighted by former president Mary McAleese. “These are not rare or exceptional cases. There are tens of millions of them every year. They die by clinical abortion, spontaneous miscarriage, still-birth or from fatal conditions which cause them to die in utero or soon after birth. The vast majority...
  • Former Irish president Pledges to Spend Retirement Challenging Catholic Church

    09/28/2020 7:07:01 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 47 replies
    Crux ^ | 9/25/20 | Charles Collins
    LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Former Irish President Mary McAleese says she is pledging “to use whatever time is left to me” to challenge Church teachings on homosexuality and women. Speaking to The View on BBC Northern Ireland on Thursday night, McAleese said, “What else I am going to do in retirement except make myself useful in that regard?” McAleese, 69, served as president of Ireland – a largely ceremonial position – from 1997-2011. She has clashed with Church leaders in the past and was barred from attending a conference taking place at the Vatican in 2018. A longtime critic of...
  • Mary McAleese Says ‘Game is Almost Up’ for All-Male Catholic Church

    03/16/2019 6:19:35 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 22 replies
    The Irish Times ^ | 3/11/19 | Patsy McGarry
    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...
  • Catholic Teaching on Homosexuality Evil, Says [Former Irish President] McAleese

    08/09/2018 7:22:28 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 9 replies
    BBC ^ | 8/7/18
    The Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality has been described as "evil" by a former Irish president. Mary McAleese said she was hopeful the Pope would change the church's position on the issue. Pope Francis is due to visit the Republic of Ireland this month for the World Meeting of Families, a major event for the Church. Mrs McAleese, who was president from 1997 to 2011, said she hoped it would be free of "homophobic messages". The Pope's two-day tour will be the first papal visit to Ireland for almost 40 years. 'Exploded that myth'Mrs McAleese made her comments about the...
  • Ex-President of Ireland Says Baptism Creates “Infant Conscripts”

    06/23/2018 6:00:46 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 64 replies
    Crux ^ | 6/23/18 | Charles Collins
    LEICESTER, United Kingdom - Baptizing babies is a violation of their human rights, according to the former president of Ireland. Mary McAleese, who served in the largely ceremonial role of president from 1997-2011, also said she would not attend the Aug. 22-26 World Meeting of Families taking place in Dublin. She told the Irish Times the event, which Pope Francis will attend Aug. 25-26, will only serve as a “political rally” for the “reinforcement of orthodoxy.” McAleese told the newspaper that by baptizing children before they have reached the age of reason, the Church is creating “infant conscripts who are...
  • Daughter of Sept 11 victim to speak at Saudi forum (where Gore spoke)

    02/13/2006 6:31:11 PM PST · by STARWISE · 12 replies · 733+ views
    AFP/YahooNews ^ | 2-11-06
    For the first time on Monday, a relative of a victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks that were mostly carried out by Saudi nationals will speak in public in the kingdom. Sonia Tita Puopolo, is the daughter of Sonia Morales Puopolo, who was a passenger on American Airlines flight 11 that crashed into one of the towers of New York's World Trade Center.She is to speak during a session titled "Terrorism - The Human Toll" at the Jeddah Economic Forum starting in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah in the west of the ultra conservative kingdom on Saturday....