At the time, O’Connor, now 54, said she had torn up the photo to protest sexual abuse of children by the Catholic Church. However, she recently revealed that the story goes much deeper.
“My intention had always been to destroy my mother’s photo of the pope,” she writes. “It represented lies and liars and abuse. The type of people who kept these things were devils like my mother.”
She ripped up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live and got her career canceled for it.
A decade or so later it turned out that the Catholic Church was covering up absurd amounts of child sexual abuse and pedophilia.
Her protest was over abortion rights and the Irish Laundry system as I recall.
At the time, O’Connor, now 54, said she had torn up the photo to protest sexual abuse of children by the Catholic Church. However, she recently revealed that the story goes much deeper.
“My intention had always been to destroy my mother’s photo of the pope,” she writes. “It represented lies and liars and abuse. The type of people who kept these things were devils like my mother.”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/01/sinead-oconnor-on-why-she-ripped-up-photo-of-pope-on-snl/
TIL thanks for this
Ahhhh I see. I’m on her side about that