{"id":178786,"date":"2018-08-20T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/20\/yes-we-all-need-to-apologize-to-sinead-oconnor\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:49:00","slug":"yes-we-all-need-to-apologize-to-sinead-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/20\/yes-we-all-need-to-apologize-to-sinead-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, We All Need to Apologize to Sinead O&#8217;Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2dKdBlKgquw\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>I actually saw this live, and was completely clueless<\/i><\/div>\n<p>When she tore up a picture of John Paul II on <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> in protest of church abuse, some of which she was the personal target of, she got a <b>LOT<\/b> of grief.<\/p>\n<p>Now, people are recognizing that she was right and justified, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/opinion\/niallodowd\/we-owe-sinead-o-connor-an-apology-for-speaking-the-truth-about-church-child-abuse\">Even in her native Ireland<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/culture\/entertainment\/sinead-oconnors-threats-against-the-pope-were-just-a-joke-130665588-237414321\">declaration back in 1992 that the Catholic Church<\/a> was rotten to its core and pedophile priests and their enablers were the real enemy was true.<\/p>\n<p>It caused a massive worldwide reaction when she tore up a picture of the then Pope on Saturday Night Live in October 1992 and declared, \u201cFight the real enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We now know that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/topic\/catholic\">pedophile scandals were rampant<\/a> during the era of Pope John Paul, who chose to turn a blind eye. O\u2019Connor was calling out the right person.<\/p>\n<p>Before Spotlight, before the worst of the American and Irish church scandals, O&#8217;Connor called it right and only got abuse in return. <\/p>\n<p>The enemy has become very obvious since then. The revelation that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/news\/grand-jury-catholic-pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania grand jury found that more than 1,000 children<\/a> in six dioceses there had been molested by 300 Catholic priests over the past 70 years while successive church officials covered it up is truly shocking.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The scandal, which has been going on for decades, and the coverup, which was particularly ferocious under John Paul II, has proven her right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually saw this live, and was completely clueless When she tore up a picture of John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in protest of church abuse, some of which she was the personal target of, she got a LOT of grief. Now, people are recognizing that she was right and justified, Even in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,522,389,478,380,401],"class_list":["post-178786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-heroism","tag-history","tag-music","tag-religion","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}