Eighteen years ago, Sinead O'Connor ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II live on SNL in protest the rampant child abuse going on in Ireland. Embedding is disabled, but watch it here if you want to. It turns out she was right, because we know now that the Vatican has been covering up child abuse for decades. It was an extremely brave thing to do; criticizing the Pope during that time was enough to earn ostracism, but tearing up his picture on national television was risking everything. This video here is two weeks after her SNL performance. The crowd tried to boo her offstage, and what she did in response was equally courageous to what she did two weeks prior.
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