"including getting booed off-stage at Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert, the most disgraceful performance by a Madison Square Garden crowd since the German American Bund meeting in 1939."

#SineadOConnor #Catholic #SexualAbuse #JohnPaulII
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"[W]hen Sinead tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in protest of the Church's massive conspiracy to obstruct justice on the subject of child sexual abuse, she put herself out there before almost anyone else, and she paid an awful price,"

~ Charles Pierce

#SineadOConnor #Catholic #SexualAbuse #JohnPaulII
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44654287/sinead-oconnor-dead-54-tribute/

Pope Francis spoke out against insinuations
In regards to the case of dear young Emanuela
He said the accusations
Against Saint John Paul II
Are false and offensive, so let us be clear
But where is little Emanuela?
The question still remains after forty years

#popefrancis #johnpaulii #emanuela #vatican #poetry

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-francis-calls-insinuations-against-john-paul-ii-unfounded-2023-04-16/

John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła) was #Catholic #Pope from 1978 until his death on this day in 2005. Pictured here is a #Vatican 100 Lire from 20 years earlier, 1985, featuring a plane flying over the countries of the Earth, spreading the Gospels. And one of my favourite clips of him: a crowd of young people in St Peter's Square for World Youth Day 2000 are chanting "John Paul II, we love you!", and he responds "John Paul II, he loves you!":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZmFDtN4pg #JohnPaulII

#Pope #JohnPaulII covered up child #abuse as cardinal in #Poland, says report

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230306-pope-john-paul-ii-covered-up-child-abuse-as-cardinal

@johnwlast Yes. It's very odd that more people don't make note of that. ALSO Ratzinger's political rise in the church was largely based on his status as a theologian & his shaping of the theological track during #JohnPaulII 's pontificate was his most important legacy (for better and worse)

#NCROnline
#JonathanLuxmoore

“New report on clergy abuse during John Paul II's tenure in Poland sparks intense debate”

https://www.pontificalsecret.com/clergy-abuse-john-paul-ii/

#JohnPaulII
#PontificalSecret

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