[She deserved it]
Former Irish president says American cardinal insulted her
CWN – October 08, 2012
Former Irish President Mary McAleese has said that Cardinal Bernard Law angrily rebuked her for supporting women’s ordination while she was visiting Boston in 1998.
Cardinal Law—who at the time was Archbishop of Boston—told McAleese that he was “sorry for Catholic Ireland to have you as president,” McAleese claims. The former Irish president said that the cardinal’s remarks were “utterly inappropriate and unwelcome.” In less formal language she said that she was “gobsmacked by this arrogant man.”
Cardinal Law resigned his post as head of the Boston archdiocese in 2002 because of his involvement in covering up evidence of the sex-abuse scandal there. At the time that he allegedly reprimanded McAleese for her support of women’s ordination, many of Boston’s most prominent Catholic politicians supported the same cause.
Additional sources for this story: Cardinal Law told Mary McAleese he was ‘sorry for Catholic Ireland to have you as President’ (Irish Central) www.irishcentral.com/news/Cardinal-Law-told-Mary-McAleese-he-was-sorry-for-Catholic-Ireland-to-have-you-as-President-173019561.html
The arrogance of this laywoman, putting herself on the same level as a prince of the Church. Who is she to tell him what a priest is or isn’t?
These impossible hags would reach back into the Stone Age and try to make an issue of some comment by Barney Rubble if they didn’t have men in the Church to bash.
Frankly, though inadmissable, were the Holy See to” permit female ordination ” and its natural consequence, ” female episcopacies “, ad experimentum of course!, within no time the Catholic diocesan system would become so balkanized and drama queened that you would be able to fire a cannon down the main aisle of every church in the nation and never hit anyone at all.
As any true Catholic lady will attest, many men may turn out to be duplicitous bastards and total boneheads but, ounce for ounce, a female gone wrong is the far deadlier of the species.