Josepha Madigan Minister Josepha Madigan, who ran Fine Gael’s campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment last year and pave the way for abortion here, has said the first thing she did when given the role was to attend a Taizé prayer meeting at her local church.
Ms Madigan, a family lawyer by profession, was asked by Leo Varadkar in March 2018 to lead Fine Gael’s campaign to remove the pro-life clause from the Constitution.
According to the Sunday Business Post, rather than convene an immediate meeting of strategists and backroom staff, her first step “was somewhat more unconventional”.
“It was on Holy Thursday, and the first thing I did was to go to the Taizé prayers in Mount Merrion,” she said.
Ms Madigan also backed same-sex marriage and led the recent campaign in favour of making divorce quicker, all positions at variance with Catholic teaching. She is a reader at her parish in Mount Merrion, Dublin, and on one occasion last year stepped to help lead a liturgy when a priest failed to turn up to say a scheduled Mass.