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He was given a chance to speak to the seminarians, and was publicly welcomed by the president on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">T\u00e1naiste <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeoVaradkar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LeoVaradkar<\/a> TD, pictured with Rev Prof Michael Mullaney, President of St Patrick\u2019s College, Maynooth. Rev Mullaney hosted the T\u00e1naiste on a tour of the historic St Patrick\u2019s campus which has been educating people from Ireland and overseas since 1795. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXTBcEQes7\">pic.twitter.com\/MXTBcEQes7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; St Patrick&#39;s Pontifical University (@StPatsMaynooth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StPatsMaynooth\/status\/1481995546386739203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The pontifical university reported on Thursday that Mullaney was \u201cdelighted to get the opportunity to meet with Mr Varadkar and give him a flavor of the rich educational heritage of St. Patrick\u2019s \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This welcoming of persons openly against the teachings of the Church signifies the dwindling of the faithful in Ireland, with St. Patrick&#8217;s being the last seminary in Ireland, and Ireland only having 26 potential priests for its 6.9 million inhabitants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Catholic seminary in Ireland, St. Patrick&#8217;s Pontifical University, invited the former prime minister Leo Varadkar, an pro-choice advocate and active homosexual, for a tour of the seminary and a chance to speak to the seminarians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":116218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"511"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[804,511],"tags":[9242,492,14900],"class_list":["post-116215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","tag-catholic","tag-pro-choice","tag-seminary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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