Cardinal Law told Mary McAleese he was ‘sorry for Catholic Ireland to have you as President’

@jetsnoone - but we DO have women marines and women pilots these days. Aint ya ever seen the movie "GI Jane"??

Mary McAleese's very public statements are causing the youth of Ireland to turn away from the Church in droves. This may, or may not be her intention but Mary knows she is popular and that the kids are very influenced by her "I'll do it my way" attitude. She is highly unqualified to rule on Church policy.

Arrogance personified! This is what happens when a political (whoops, did I say political? I must have meant religious) system refuses to put into place a meaningful set of checks & balances involving all levels of its constituency . Dear Vatican, can you pronounce the word "democracy"? Whoops, sorry again, I forgot . It's on your Banned list, isn't it.

And Mary McAleese has done what to help the people of Ireand???? Her gradstanding, by calling for women priests, mis-leads the youth of Ireland by encouraging public dissent. Don't need no women priests,women marines or women jet pilots. Keeping it real!

After listening to these pompous, pedophfile hiding idiots talk I finally figured out why they call themselves cardinals. It is because they are bird brains.

Law goes down in history as the embodiment of what is (was) wrong with the Catholic leadership, not just in Boston but the entire world! It has been my pleasure to be in the company of Mrs. McAleese on several occasions, business and social, in Ireland and America. It is too bad that Catholicism has not more people of her intellect at the top and fewer of those of Laws. Unfortunately it is not past history but in fact present. The Bishops and their Cardinal bosses are about as functional and effective as the US Congress!

Canon law and the rules in golf have the same status, This man Law should be in front of a court. This is the type of person that has given us the Ryan Report , the Murphy Report, the Cloyne report all exposing these men as criminal pedophiles . They have milked Ireland for centuries but the game is over. Maybe we will get the republic where we can breath freely and once and for all be quit this Roman Talibanism.

Cardinal Law should've kept his mouth shut about Mary McAleese in 1998 and concentrated on his own short-comings. At least, she wasn't covering up child sexual abuse.

This Cardinal should be in Jail, not living the good life in Italy. While I don't agree with everything Mary McAleese says or does, he has lost his right to excoriate her . Until the Catholic Church comes to the realization that in this century the "Good Old Boys Club" has now come to it's day of reckoning , Priests need to have the right to marry and women need to have the choice to be Priests.

Lucia...However wrong the cardinal might have been, he was still right? And what Ireland has become is someone else's doing, huh? The LADY is the leader of a nation. If she does not speak about things the church thinks she shouldn't, then she isn't the leader, the church is. Haven't you seen enough concerning how the church runs things to have a mind of your own by now?

(a) HM EIIR visited the Rock of Cashel during her visit of Leinster/eastern Ireland and Munster/southern Ireland last year. Might she have been revoking Henry IIs Council of Cashel? (b) Cardinal Bernard Francis Law's (CBFLs) Arch-Diocese of Boston is in the Commomwealth of Massacheutts, is it not? (c) Prof Mary McAleese wasn't just Ireland's second female president, but also the first president from the province of Ulster/northern Ireland, qualifying her as the first truly national head of state - one reason why some of us voted for her! (c) As first citizen, Roman Catholic hierarchy as Irish citizens were consequently secondary to her. (d) She's studying Canon Law specificaly, not [my]theology generally! (e) Red scare tactics don't work in Ireland, Great Britain or the mainland, where there's a much broader spectrum of political opinion than appears exist amongst political heresiological republican middle-America. (f) Roman Catholic hierarchy are explicitly precluded by Anglican Canon Law from becoming Lord's Spiritual in England's Upper Hse since the Reformation.

A theocrat unelected by popular franchise offering a condescending inverted apology to Ireland's second female president elected by many thousands of votes in 1997, including my own. His theologically partitionist paradigm as offensive to Protestant Ireland equally. Neo-Cromwellian

So,speaking as an Irish American former Catholic female I say Cardinal Law it is arrogant corrupt sexual cover up artists like you Cardinal Law,was one the biggest reasons I left the pedophile ridden and infested disgusting pathetic excuse of church myself. Cardinal Law just shut up and go into a monastry that requires a strict vow of silence!

Well i have always said Politics & Religion go hand & hand You jest can't seperate them. Both are Corrupt and created by Man. Both will and can Enslave the Minds of Men . and also take over Nations from within. due to the ignorance of the Human Masses . If in fact you tell a Fictional story long enough and often enough. it becomes The Truth in the minds of the Ignorant. nothing has changed It's still the same old story.Suppress the Minds of the People and you not only control them but you own their contry as well. with very little effort !

Cillowen -- Do you live in Ireland?