Two weeks ago I pointed out that when Mary McAleese, the former president of Ireland, condemned the baptism of infants, she ran afoul of the Council of Trent, which said, of people holding that view: “let them be anathema.”

But she is not being shunned by Catholic leaders. On the contrary. The Irish Catholic reports on her speech at a Catholic school: a talk in which she described Church teaching as “rancid,” and dismissed Pope Leo as a “stopgap.” The report comes with a photo, showing McAleese chatting with Dublin’s Archbishop Farrell. He’s smiling. She’s doing the talking.

irishcatholic.com/mary-…