Posts Tagged ‘Mary McAleese’

McAleese says dealing with hierarchy like shouting at kids

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Former Irish president Mary McAleese has told a Sydney audience trying to be heard by the Church hierarchy is like shouting at children. About 1000 people at the Sydney Town Hall on September 7 heard her argue for a greater role for women in the Church. “The old boys’ club are going to have to Read more

Sydney Catholic paper refuses to advertise McAleese event

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

Sydney’s Catholic Weekly newspaper is refusing to run an advertisement for an event at which former Irish president Mary McAleese will speak. The reasons cited by Catholic Weekly editor Peter Rosengren are Ms McAleese’s views on homosexuality and the ordination of women. Ms McAleese is the guest of Catholic think-tank, Catalyst For Renewal, and will Read more

Former Irish president says all-male family synod is bonkers

Tuesday, June 24th, 2014

Former Irish president Mary McAleese has described the Pope’s plans to canvass bishops’ opinions on family life as “completely bonkers”. She strongly questioned Pope Francis calling a synod later this year on family life. Ms McAleese said there was “just something profoundly wrong and skewed” about asking clergy for their views on this subject, when Read more

Pope intervenes removing Marist priest’s further sanctions

Friday, May 2nd, 2014

The Vatican has removed further sanctions it could have imposed on Irish Marist priest, Fr Sean Fagan, who was silenced in 2008. Society of Mary Superior General Fr John Hannan told CathNews that he is pleased the threat of further sanctions, stipulated in 2010, have been removed and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Read more

Very large number of priests are gay says former Ireland president

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

Former Ireland president Mary McAleese, says the Catholic Church has been in denial over homosexuality for decades. That so many priests are gay, “isn’t so much the elephant in the room but a herd of elephants. “I don’t like my church’s attitude to gay people. I don’t like ‘love the sinner, hate the sin’. If Read more

McAleese: Vatican silencing of Irish priests ‘consumes the truth’

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Popular former Ireland President, Mary McAlese has criticised the Catholic Church’s treatment of five silenced Irish priests, accusing Rome of operating through fear and imposing strictures on clerics “which consume the truth”. McAlese described Marist Fr Sean Fagan and Redemptorist Fr Tony Flannery as “good men who have loved this Church with a passion” who are Read more

Former Ireland president asks Vatican for leniency for liberal priests

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Former Ireland president Mary McAleese has called on the papal nuncio to show more leniency to priests who speak on controversial matters. McAleese told the Vatican’s Ireland representative, Archbishop Charles Brown, that the priests were held in high esteem by the public. The remarks were reportedly made during a lunch with the Papal Nuncio last month, Read more