Maharashtracake to [email protected]English • edit-22 years agoSinéad 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 II regarding the problem of child molestation.www.rte.ieexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1900cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1874external-linkSinéad 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 II regarding the problem of child molestation.www.rte.ieMaharashtracake to [email protected]English • edit-22 years agomessage-square48fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-22 years agoSource? According to Wikipedia it was the molestations, for which the pope apologised 9 years later, so 15 seems far fetched. Edit: Granted, at the time all she said was Fight the real evil, so no wonder people were confused.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoThe 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.
Source? According to Wikipedia it was the molestations, for which the pope apologised 9 years later, so 15 seems far fetched.
Edit: Granted, at the time all she said was Fight the real evil, so no wonder people were confused.
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.