Vatican bars former Irish president Mary McAleese

International Women’s Day event organizers move Rome confernce and book McAleese as keynote speaker, finding “barring” women’s voices “unacceptable”.
The former president of Ireland Mary McAleese has been barred by the Vatican from taking part in a conference to mark International Women’s Day due to her views on gay rights and the Catholic Church’s history of abuse.

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