Catholic League Wails Over Praise For Sinead O’Connor

July 28, 2023 Christianists, Hate Groups

Via email from hate group leader Bill Donohue:



Sinead O’Connor is being lionized for her “bravery” in ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992. Her fans are commending her for calling attention to clergy sexual abuse. The reaction had been effusive.

“She was proved right” says Harvard Law School instructor Alejandra Caraballo. Brenna Moore, who teaches theology at Fordham, called her “a kind of prophetic truth-teller.”

America magazine senior editor James T. Keane wants to know “when are we going to apologize to her?” Indeed, there is a Facebook page called, “Apologize to Sinead O’Connor NOW.”

If a Martian landed today and read this he might well conclude that Sinead was a scholar who commanded great prescience.

In fact, she was a troubled soul who was badly educated (I know because I debated her on TV). She was no more a “truth-teller” than are her fans who have written on this subject.

The truth is that anyone who talks about clergy sexual abuse and refuses to tell the truth about the oversized role played by homosexuals is either ignorant or dishonest: they were responsible for 8 in 10 cases of molestation.

Molly Olmstead at Slate wrote a beauty. She goes after Pope John Paul II for his “role” in covering up the scandal.

The link she provides is to a story by National Public Radio saying the pope was aware of accusations against homosexual predator, and former cardinal, Theodore McCarrick.

The pope should have listened to New York Archbishop John Cardinal O’Connor. He had McCarrick’s number and explained in detail to the Vatican why he was alarmed.

Instead the pope was persuaded by two high-ranking Vatican officials who took McCarrick’s side. He heeded the wrong advice, but this is not the same as instituting a cover-up.

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