Letters to the Editor: Nothing new in Mary McAleese's comments on the Church

One reader challenges Mary McAleese's comments about the Catholic Church, while others consider issues including the conflict in the Middle East

Former president Mary McAleese with Patrick Kielty on the first episode of the 61st series of the Late Late Show. Picture: RTÉ

Mary McAleese uses a “scattergun” approach in her latest attack on Catholic Church teaching. Speaking at the Spirit Unbounded conference in Rome, Dr McAleese lists what she describes as the failings of the Church, including issues of “human rights, outdated … governance, inequality, restricted … freedoms of expression, opinion, conscience and religion”. She also refers to the church as “un-Christian”.

It’s obvious that in Dr McAleese’s world, nothing is sacred. Or perhaps “all’s fair...in war”?