sentences:  McAleese, speaking about the report, said that the cover up of this abuse “is not only systemic, it was directed from central command and control which is the Vatican…It strikes me as impossible to believe that all bishops acted equally negligently by coincidence, that’s the problem.” 
  
  In February 2018, Farrell banned Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland and award winning Catholic academic and author, from speaking at a conference in the Vatican on Women in the Catholic Church.McAleese sought an explanation for her exclusion from Farrell’s superior Pope Francis through a Canon Law process.Francis has so far failed to engage in this legal process.