Posted on 09/12/2010 1:46:57 AM PDT by Cardhu
When she tore up the pope's picture as a protest against child abuse, people thought she was loopy. But Sinead O'Connor – former pop star, priest, newly married mother of four – won't say 'I told you so'
You can't mistake Sinead O'Connor's house. Outside the porch is an empty plant pot full of cigarette butts, inside are two large statues of the virgin Mary. As the door opens, I crash into another Virgin Mary. O'Connor's housekeeper, who doubles up as her best friend, opens the door and leads me into a lounge where family photos, rocking chairs and kids' paintings jostle for pole position with more Virgin Marys. A huge beautiful bay window overlooks the sea at Bray, just outside Dublin.
When O'Connor arrives, I barely recognise her. Her hair is a black bob, her face rounded, she is wearing a three-piece suit and has the air of a mid-20th century industrialist. A big brass cross hangs down her front. "That's my ordination cross. Normally I tuck it into my bra," which she does as she speaks. She suggests we retire to the shed-cum-office in the garden. So we stroll past the hanging linen, a few guitar cases, two Yorkshire terrier puppies, the cat, and she chats away confidently, and we reach the wooden hut and shut the door on the world. Then everything changes. She sits down, just about manages to light a fag with a shaking hand and morphs into the terrified (and terrifying) wisp of a girl from yesteryear.
In 1992 she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on the American TV show Saturday Night live. She said it was a protest at child sex abuse in the Catholic church, and many people thought she was loopy. What abuse?
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as far as hollyword/musical artist idiots go
no one compares 2U
She has a hard row to hoe with bipolar. It seems the drugs are working. She is a mother with four children and has a new husband. She was abused horribly by her mother.
My prayers go out to her.
Well, it’s interesting as one of those “whatever happened to what’s her name” articles. Once you read it, though, you promptly forget about her again.
If Sinead had put her focus on them instead of ripping a picture of the Pope, then she may have achieved some good at that point. But her still “boiling” hatred for Catholics got in the way. Pity.
Yet another feeble hit piece on the Church by the guardian. Many errors, to say the least. Sinead may have once been Catholic, whether she likes it or not, but she is in no way one now. Among other things, the “ordination” she speaks of would also be an act of self-excommunication. There is no breakaway Latin Tridentine church. We do have the Latin Tridentine Mass, perhaps better known as the Mass of All Ages, these days often referred to as the Extraordinary Form. She is not a priest in the proper sense. I suppose one could refer to her as a “womynpriest,” but that’s it. And, honestly, the diagnosis does not suprise me. I wish her well. As far as the Guardian is concerned, any chance to try to make a hit upon the Church is okay with them, and they act on it. Vindicated, my hindquarters. Pshaw.
Skinhead didn’t actually protest sex abuse from what I recalled. She protested what she perceived were injustices by the Church, Her teachings against immorality and such.
Understandible in such a woman.
June 6th, 2007
Bisexual singer Sinead O'Connor has become a Rastafarian, despite many believers opposing homosexuality. The 40-year-old admits being Rastafari seems an unlikely movement for her to follow.
She says, "I suppose what I like about it is that it's not a religion, it's a prophetic movement. And, yes, I'm aware that it's anti-gay in a lot of ways. I can deal with that even though I'm a woman who likes shagging birds."
"I'm also madly in love with a man right now. Which makes me bisexual, I guess."
.As she talks I notice an inky tattoo on her elbow. "Ah, that's a conquering lion, the Rasta name for God." She rolls up her sleeve to reveal an arm that is now a series of tattooed quotes. "This is one of the names of Allah, ....." We work our way up her arm. "That's a quote from Muhammad Ali, who I worship – 'No Vietcong ever called me nigger'."
Stricks me a pretty odd.
Well, it’s interesting as one of those “whatever happened to what’s her name” articles. Once you read it, though, you promptly forget about her again.
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I tend to agree with you about . . . Uh.
Where were we?
The Vatican: ‘Sinead O’Connor is a nest of devils’
There, FIXED!
Mel
What a maroon.
Would love to see Pope Benedict XVI rip up a photo of Sinead O’Connor and say, “she’s a priest only in her own mind. Pray for her, ye faithful.”
It would appear from the article that she’s a raving loon. Sad, really.
I missed far more SNL episodes than I watched over the years, but somehow I seem to have caught most of the “banned for life” inducing incidents, starting with Elvis Costello and The Attractions in 1977. (An incredibly tight band at the time.) Frank Zappa, Milton Berle, Andy Kaufman (voted off by viewers calling a 900 number, I voted to keep him).
So, anyway, I saw the photo ripping incident with Sinead also. I remember that I enjoyed her first number, even though I don’t recall which song it was, but I was already irritated by the second song (during which she ripped the photo) which was some Rastafarian, watchacallit, reggae number. Even though my musical tastes are highly eclectic, I’ve always disliked reggae. In part, I think, because of the irritatingly idiotic religion associated with it. (Hey, guys, let’s worship a dorky Ethiopian Emperor who postured as a military genius and then got his ass handed to him by the Italian army! Not since Mary Baker Edy, or until L. Ron Hubbard had anyone come up with a religion that stupid.)
A nut case. Another nut case goes to interview her.
Or the bleeding heartism of U2 and Bono’s endless preachiness.
“I’m also madly in love with a man right now. Which makes me bisexual, I guess.”
Or very confused. Or indiscriminate. Or just plain crazy and self-indulgent.
She seems like a tortured woman. I feel some sympathy for her. Child abuse doesn’t go away, it forms the personality. She needs the Bible, the word of God, she seems to have faith but doesn’t understand how to use it or she would stop “shagging birds,” getting ordained as a woman, and cursing automatically. But we all sin. I’m praying for her.
Worth listening to:
Her one hit.
I’ve often thought that many great love songs express a longing for Christ; they are misplaced hymns.
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