JesterRaiinSinéad O'Connor just died. It's worth reminding that her life was destroyed after she made the bold move and criticized the church and pope John Paul regarding the problem of child molestation.
Flying SquidVery true, but she was also a religious nut. I’m glad she did what she did, even though almost no one understood the protest at the time, but she was her own brand of crazy Catholic.
sabAye. I remember it being big news worldwide that she tore up a picture of the pope. It was only decades later that I found out it was to protest molestations.
EhListIt was in protest to the Catholic Church’s treatment of women. The molestation scandal came out about fifteen years later
Source? According to Wikipedia it was the molestations, for which the pope apologised 9 years later, so 15 seems far fetched.
The two sources wikipedia uses to make that claim are from after the scandal broke and neither quote O’Connor.
The first apology I can fund fir sex abuse is 2008 so 17 years later
In 1991 people joked about priests raping kids but it was not common knowledge that the problem was widespread at the time.