ANNUAL 2023: CLERICAL ERRORS – McALEESE FIGHTS ON


Mary McAleese again criticised the Church’s ‘out-dated internal structure of governance’ based on canon law’s ‘embedded inequality’.

Mary McAleese again criticised the Church’s ‘out-dated internal structure of governance’ based on canon law’s ‘embedded inequality’.


THE MONTH-LONG Synod on Synodality convened in Rome by Pope Francis to update world Catholicism ended in anti-climax on Sunday October 29. This means that unresolved issues – such as same-sex unions and the ordination of the 600 million women who constitute half of Church membership – have been deferred until next autumn, when the... Read more »

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