Former president Mary McAleese has ridiculed the concept of 300 elderly celibates coming together to discuss family questions. Addressing a meeting of the Global Network of Rainbow
(LGBT) Catholics on the eve of the Vatican’s Synod on the Family, Ms
MacAleese said:
“In the days when I was president, we had workshops
on various issues and if I wanted to look at an issue, I would consult
the experts... But look at the Synod, I have to ask the question: If I
wanted expertise on the family, I honestly cannot say that the first
thing that would come into my mind would be to call together 300
celibate males who, as far we know, have never raised a child...