R.I.P. Sinéad O'Connor.
 

Sinead O'''Connor: Irish singer dies aged 56 - BBC News

She had a great voice even though she sometimes did things which made her very unpopular. R.I.P.

The global mental health issue needs to be addressed globally, and locally. Her son committed suicide 18 months ago, when he was only 17 years old. She was hospitalized for her own mental health as a result, when she had a breakdown.

Never one of my favorites.

Still, R.I.P.

She was said to be bipolar and sometimes those people are the most creative… and tortured individuals. My in-laws were bipolar, just got worse with time. My thoughts go out to her spirit.

There was one song that I really liked, just skimmed through a listing of her songs, and I cannot remember it.

Maybe this one??

https://youtu.be/0-EF60neguk

Nothing compares to you. ? .

No, I think it was one of her lesser known songs, but on the other hand I may be mixing her up with another singer, I will continue to look at videos.

I remember when she hit the scene. Her "Nothing Compares 2 U" song was good, but mostly forgettable. Shaved head made her look like a POW, along with the clothing. I remember when she tore up the picture of the pope on SNL yelling something like "Fight the real enemy". Just weird. The audience just sat there stunned. What did she even mean?

Sad ending to a sad life. RIP.

She was protesting the inactions of the Vatican and crimes against children that were being covered up and suffered the wrath for doing so. It was brought to national attention in 2002 following a series of publications by The Boston Globe 10 years later.
The issue of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests was first publicized in 1985 when a Louisiana priest pleaded guilty to 11 counts of molestation of boys.

Perhaps she did not realize that her action offended not the Pope but the 1.36 billion Roman Catholics. Lucky for her they don’t adhere to fatwa.

If it didn't offend the Pope, why would it offend the Catholics? Do they think he's too stupid to be offended and they're being offended on his behalf? Or do they not realize that - his position is intended to set the example, and they should attempt to emulate by - not being offended?

I mean - what she did was in poor taste, and inappropriate for the setting. But I totally agreed with the nature of her complaint. Anyone who doesn't agree with it, is someone who thinks it's okay for Catholic priests to molest boys and for the Pope to condone it by not admitting that it happened and condemning it.

Also to whoever it was that has a problem with her bald head: God only made a certain number of perfect heads. The rest he covered with hair.

Someone else said this came to light in 2002 with the Boston Globe's articles. Locally, it was a LOT earlier than that. It seemed every six months there was another trove of documents that the Boston Archdiocese would turn over and insist that THAT was the last of them - only to turn out to have more.

I can't put into words the revulsion I have for my ex-Church. This scandal was the primary reason in my leaving the church.

If Catholics were offended by her coming out against the raping of children, then TOO BAD.

I was told that I was going to hell if I ate a hot dog on a Friday. But the people who told me that were out raping kids - and I found it interesting that male priests were most often raping BOYS while saying the homosexuals in the secular world were evil.

Father James Porter was the first of the dominos to fall. I heard him on a recorded phone call on the news with WBZ-TV. He thought the statute of limitations had expired. He was by that time a priest in Minnesota and ADMITTED TO RAPING 150 BOYS!

Local parishes and diocese have been nearly bankrupted because the Vatican isn't bailing them out those local parishes have had to sell their churches and any other property they have (land, schools, hospitals) to pay the victims.

But, sure, be mad at the messenger who told you what was going on behind closed doors - at those CYO camps - in the rectory.

Yeah. I used to be an altar boy. I never thought I'd say something like "I was one of the lucky ones" when it comes to something like that. I wasn't raped. What a low bar to clear.

Thomas Paine had a quote that has been paraphrased into "If the truth offends you, then you deserve to be offended".

The song I remember is "Orinoco Flow"

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"Nothing compares to you"? Written by Prince.

no loss here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXyGEw8lHG8
My favorite song.

Who really cares.

K, I’ll try to explain. To most Roman Catholics the Pope is the holy father. He is not perfect, only God is perfect. But he is elected to be on the highest level of the Catholic faith. I saw the Pope once, from far away, in his Pope mobile and to me, his holiness radiated around him. I could feel it half a mile away. At the time I was not a Roman Catholic myself.

Yes molesting, raping is evil, but it was not the Pope doing it. I understand that he has to take action. The Catholic Church is dealing with these issues, slowly, very slowly, too slowly. The Catholic people are more horrified than anyone else that this is done by a trusted and often loved individual, the priest. That a person you turn to for guidance and understanding of God’s will on earth could possibly betray you like that. It is worse than incest in the family. Yes, it must be dealt with.

My parents met one of the previous Popes, had an audience with him at the Vatican. The person Catholics turn to for guidance and understanding of God's will - is the Pope. He is the "guy in charge" of all the other priests. The buck stops with him. He chose not to act immediately. The next Pope also chose not to act immediately. The Pope after that one chose not to act immediately. The current Pope has chosen not to act immediately. Who knows how far back this goes, but it's at -least- four Popes old.

That the followers of this religion continue to justify, make excuses, and say "yeah we hate this" but refuse to walk away when enough is enough, tells me everything I need to know about the Catholic religion.

You don't even have to move if you don't like it. You just have to - accept that the Catholic church is not what you thought you were signing up for, and it's time for something else.

Actually the Pope doesn’t quite have the executive powers of, say, the President of the United States. The buck actually doesn’t stop with him, it stops with God. Nevertheless, I agree that more, faster and greater action should to be taken to compensate the victims and put in measures not to let it happen again in the future.

And look what happened to “the messenger” it was not the Pope or the Catholic people that took her life….

Also in 1990, she was criticised after she stated that she would not perform if the United States national anthem was played before one of her concerts; Frank Sinatra threatened to "kick her in the ass".

So the Big Boss is bumping of whistleblowers?

Why don’t you ask the “Big Boss” directly?