Regrets: she’s had a few, clearly.
Patriarchy is a good model for manhood, like it or not.
Princess of the Church.
If you don’t agree with the Catholic Church, there are plenty of other churches one can join, says MARIA MAYNES who thinks that the Mary McAleese and some in the Irish media are using the death of Pope Francis to promote their own agenda.
We all know, I think – those of us who pay attention to this stuff – what the official Irish attitude to China is.
If it is the fate of the Irish Church to die, then it will die. But it should die with its head held high for the things it believes to be eternally true. Not crawling on its belly before the whims of the moment.
Fr McCafferty
Thank God for Mary McAleese. It was shaping up to be a fairly slow news day today, ad we were sitting around scratching our heads wondering if anything at all would pop up that was slightly interesting, and worth writing about. Thankfully, Mrs. McAleese has come through to save the day by saying something immeasurably […]
A bit of a hangover from yesterday, which we didn’t get around to, but worth writing about anyway. Honestly, Mary, you’d be so much happier if you just left the Church and became a Protestant. Or a Muslim. Or a Hindu. Literally anything really. Why is she doing this to herself? The Catholic Church’s failure […]
Poor Pope Francis has had something of a torrid week of it. It began with the announcement that the Pontiff has been struck down by a mystery illness and was confined to bed. It approaches its end with an unwelcome letter in the post from Ireland’s most high profile Catholic. Of course, it seems fairly […]
Former President Mary McAleese seems to rather enjoy courting controversy these days, as demonstrated in her recent deliberate attempts to slur Pope John Paul II by taking a quote out of context from his book Love and Responsibility and failing to give the full details regarding its meaning. Indeed, one can only wonder why McAleese […]
As everyone knows, mostly because it’s the subject of endless, fawning news reporting, former President Mary McAleese has been busy bashing the Catholic Church recently while also being nominated as Chancellor of Trinity College. She might have been surprised, then, to see an article in the University Times take her to task in the most strident […]