Sinead O'Connor's career never fully recovered after ripping up a photo of the pope on 'SNL' to protest child abuse. But abuse survivors within the church tell us O’Connor's act was a revelation
revealed that church officials protected abusers during John Paul II’s papacy, which ended with his death in 2005.
“[O’Connor] spoke out at a time when public opinion wasn’t squarely in the camp of survivors,” Sarah Pearson, an Ending Clergy Abuse member, says. “Today, it’s much easier to acknowledge [the abuse] and say something … but for her to do that at a time when there would be real consequences for what she had done, it was really brave.”
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