McAleese desribes baptism as a kind of recruitment tool that ignores how children, as they mature, should be able to freely decide their own religious identity, noting that canon law acknowledges no ...
A prominent Catholic recently argued in the Irish Times for a new category of victim those subjected to infant baptism ...
Some Catholic Church teaching “is rancid, has gone off and needs to be updated”, former president Mary McAleese has said. “But it’s not going to be updated by a bunch of, a tiny and increasingly small ...
McAleese told the Irish Times on Friday that what she meant by "rancid" teachings was, in particular, its teachings on human ...
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Mary McAleese is not some ‘a la carte’ Catholic, she is a reformer stuck with a church whose sexism lies at its very core
Mary McAleese wants to change the Catholic church and that’s hardly surprising. It’s an archaic institution that I left long ago for a variety of reasons, most of them to do with sex and sexuality. I ...
Mary McAleese, the first President of Ireland from Northern Ireland and a renowned advocate for peace and social justice, will be the commencement honoree at Misericordia University’s Winter ...
Two of Ireland’s largest pro-life groups are disputing a U.S. Catholic college’s defense of the pro-life record of its upcoming commencement speaker, adding a new wrinkle to a growing controversy over ...
Two aspiring journalists at a Belfast school have spoken about landing an interview with the school’s most famous past pupil, ex-Irish President Mary McAleese. St Dominic’s Grammar students Mollie ...
President Mary McAleese has declared that there is a "huge maelstrom of grief" in Ireland at the moment. Speaking on Saturday at the 50th anniversary conference of Cori (Conference of Religious of ...
Mary Patricia McAleese is an Irish activist lawyer, academic, author, and former politician who served as the eighth president of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. McAleese was first ...
Before becoming Ireland’s eighth President, Mary McAleese cut her teeth in journalism at RTÉ, a period which she has said contained 'dark days.' Reflecting on her early media career, the 73-year-old, ...
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