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Former Irish President Mary McAleese has responded to the recent   scandal   over homosexuality at the country's national seminary by saying she wishes the seminary would be more welcoming” to homosexuals. Why not welcome adulterers, murderers, atheists and pedophiles? McAleese, who considers herself “a staunch Catholic,” regrets the   decision   of two Irish prelates to remove their seminarians from St. Patrick’s College, the national seminary at Maynooth, and send them to Rome instead. “I am just worried that the Maynooth controversy seems to be concentrating on the wrong things,” she told the   Irish Times . “A seminary should be a place where people feel welcomed ... not somewhere where they feel policed — after all, these are young people who haven't yet taken a vow of celibacy.” McAleese’s comments follow closely those of Senator Jerry Buttimer, a former Maynooth seminarian who later declared his homosexuality. Buttimer called on the Church to openly recruit

Saint Mary’s College of California hosted a roundtable discussion on Monday night “exploring the intersections of LGBT, Religion, Race, Gender and Ethnicity” featuring four activists for legalized same-sex marriage with an understanding of human sexuality not in alignment with Catholic Church teaching, causing a theology professor at the College to severely criticize the one-sided, anti-Catholic nature of the event. “It seems to me, at a place that claims on some level to still be faith-based, we owe the students more than this,” Father David Gentry-Akin, professor of theology at Saint Mary’s, told The Cardinal Newman Society . Fr. Gentry-Akin said if the College is going to allow students to be exposed to points of view that contradict Church teaching, then event organizers “need to make sure there’s someone there who can speak credibly about the tradition of the Church on these questions.” The panel discussion  featured three speakers from the Pacific School of Religion ,