The bravest woman on Earth, except when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party, has demanded that Tertullian (yes, that Tertullian) be REMOVED from a Vatican website.
Mary McAleese, the journalist turned politician who harangues the church at every turn, has now turned her attention to a Father of the Church for a ‘sexist’ tract.
Get this, she actually wrote to Pope Francis to demand the removal of Tertullian from the Dicastery of Family and Life website seeking: ‘urgent clarification of offensive sexist material published by the Discastery for Laity, the Family and Life’.
Would she show such urgency writing to Xi Jinping? Unlikely, according to stories revealed last week, where ir was reported that McAleese would only meet the Dalai Lama in the North as President and that she quashed an honour for him from Trinity College out of respect for the Chinese Communist Party.
With her usual sardonic faux bravery, she states:
“So here we are at the start of the implementation of your great curial reform and it absolutely beggars belief that the worst-ever offensive sexist material is published with unambiguous approval by the Dicastery for the Laity‚ Family and Life… a dicastery you charged with responsibility for women.”
She continues:
“The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is manifestly driven by an ignorant backward agenda which will drive the church into further scandal and crisis unless radically reformed. The church would be better off if it was closed down and all matters within its competence remitted to national competence. At a minimum, this awful material must be removed from the magisterium’s official website. It offends all women and the creator who made them.”
Pope Francis should do the right thing and throw the letter in the bin and stop entertaining this petulant child.
Or perhaps he can tell her that Xi Jinping wants to keep Tertullian's text on the website, that should do it.