"Former president believes receiving the sacrament is a violation of the rights of the child Since the end of her presidency in 2011, Mary McAleese has probably become best known as a fierce critic of the Catholic Church. She is hardly the only Catholic to attack the church over issues such as female priests or sexuality, but she is defin­itely the most high-profile critic in Ireland these days."
"Former president believes receiving the sacrament is a violation of the rights of the child Over the past few years, she has been turning her guns on an unusual target, one that other liberal Catholics rarely bother with, namely infant baptism. To cut a long story short, she believes that the way the Catholic Church does baptism is a violation of the rights of the child."
Mary McAleese, former president, became known as a fierce critic of the Catholic Church after her presidency ended in 2011. She critiques church positions on female priests and sexuality and holds particularly strong views on infant baptism. She contends that the Catholic practice of baptizing infants violates the rights of the child. She has focused recent criticism on sacramental practices that enroll children without their consent. She challenges norms that exempt baptism from scrutiny and frames the issue as one of children's autonomy and rights rather than solely theological tradition.
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