reported by the LA Times.Speaking to Time the following month, as reported by The Atlantic, she said her issue was not with the pope personally but with the ‘the office and the symbol of the organisation that he represents.’In 2010, writing in the Washington Post, the singer explained: ‘I knew my action would cause trouble, but I wanted to force a conversation where there was a need for one’.
In March 2020, Sinead was named Time’s Woman of the Year for 1992 in the magazine’s 100 Women of the Year.Actor and director Olivia Wilde wrote of the iconic Sinead: ‘As an Irishwoman, O’Connor was aware of the danger of criticizing a powerful entity like the church.‘She took that risk in order to publicly demand justice for children who were sexually.
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