Rest in peace Sinéad. Your horror has ended.

  • @sab
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    421 year ago

    Aye. 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.

    • Flying Squid
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      I remember it well and pretty much everyone at the time was baffled because the scandal just wasn’t that well-known outside of specific Catholic circles yet. Which just gave priests more time and more coverage until it actually started coming out in a big way a few years ago. It should have started the ball rolling then and there, but ripping up a picture of the pope and saying, “fight the real enemy” without giving context did not help the case.

      • b000urns
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        I’d say it was fairly well known lol Not widely publicised and discussed perhaps

    • @Aldrond
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      The Catholic Church is a criminal organization, and I mean what I say. Its high-ranking officials should be on trial.

      She was ahead of the curve. Every pope is a bastard including the current, Pope “Molesty-up-cover” Francis.

      • @Valmond
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        True. One of the last ones were in Hitler Jugend but let’s forgive and forget simple wrongdoings like being pro Nazi or raping children

        • @Aldrond
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          No, honestly, as much as I dislike every Pope, that one wasn’t his fault.

          Hitler Youth was not optional, and they absolutely hurt and abused children under their care. I know because I know someone who was forced into that situation and suffers lasting trauma from it.

    • @Got_Bent
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      I was in college and saw her do it live. I thought it was strange, but had no idea what grandiose aftermath there would be.

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      • @ziggysane
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        She literally added the lyric “child abuse” to her performance of “War” prior to tearing up the photo.

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      • @sab
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        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.

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