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 […]
Mary McAleese in her contribution to a Trinity College conference entitled ‘Women the Vatican Couldn’t Silence’ read from a book by Pope John Paul II, ‘Love and Responsibility’. The book was written by the late Pope in 1960, and was a lengthy treatise on the nature of spousal love that focused on mutual self-giving, consideration […]