The pop star who became a former pop star when she ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, Sinead O’Connor is now reportedly going after Pope Francis and saying that the Church is doomed and the papacy is anti-Christian. I know how heartbreaking this must be for Catholics who so look to former pop stars for spiritual advice.
“I guess I wish everyone the very best, I don’t know very much about [Francis] so I’m not going to rush to judge him . . . but I would say he has a scientifically impossible task because all religion, but certainly the Catholic Church, is really a house built on sand, and it’s drowning in a sea of conditional love, and therefore it can’t survive,” she said
“The office of pope itself is an anti-Christian office. The idea that Christ needs a representative is laughable and blasphemous . . . . we need to rescue God from religion, all religion. They’ve become a smokescreen.”
April 22, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Amen!
April 22, 2013 at 4:42 pm
Her views have a name: Protestantism.
April 22, 2013 at 4:46 pm
The Catholic Church has outlasted all governments, kings, and other foes. No doubt will outlast this little assault. Pope Francis will lead the way in praying for lost souls such as this one.
April 22, 2013 at 4:49 pm
Why should I care about what an alcoholic drugatic lesbian has to say about the Pope…. She's wortheless any way and has a very disturbing and miserable life !
April 22, 2013 at 5:37 pm
What was the question?
Gene Henley
Roman Catholic
April 22, 2013 at 7:18 pm
For a while she was saying the traditional Latin Mass. I do mean "saying" not offering as she is, after all, a she and the Old Catholic bishop who tried to ordain her must have been from the looney farm.
April 22, 2013 at 11:29 pm
and happy to say she is not has been any more :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYkzagZKtw
April 22, 2013 at 11:31 pm
i think she s right-God loves unconditionally, Vatican't loves conditionally.God does not need "representatives". smoke screen it is!!!
April 23, 2013 at 2:31 am
It is very simple. Remove the Catholic Faith and what do you have? Hell on earth!!!
By the way, Sinead, Satan does exist whether you like it or not. Just look in the mirror and you'll see pain, confusion and distortion everywhere.
Also, there is living proof. Study the lives of the saints from one generation to the next.
Malia
April 23, 2013 at 2:58 am
She has a right to think as she does. The more she fights and tries to find negativeity the closer she is getting to accept that God is with us to the end of time. Just give her time to rethink and donot condemm.God loves her also. See Matthew last verse vicky
April 23, 2013 at 5:26 am
The Catholic Church has outlasted all governments, kings, and other foes. No doubt will outlast this little assault.
But it will not outlast the judgement of a holy, righteous God unless it repents of its institutional arrogance, monarchistic trappings and infatuation with wealth, power and secular prestige. If Pope Francis cannot encourage such repentance, then he is less than worthless.
April 23, 2013 at 9:35 am
Joseph D'Hippolito, on other blogs you've admitted that you've left
the Church. I've got to wonder, in light of your apostasy, why do you
feel the need to pontificate on what the Church should or should not
do?
April 23, 2013 at 2:58 pm
Christian kindness for Sinead. We know her difficult life, the great trials and disappointments she went through. Her witness to Jesus–if you call it that–is her appointment as a priest in the Irish Independent Catholic Church (not in communion with Rome). Her statement against Pope Francis is therefore of no moment. Let's pray for her conversion to the true Chrch.
April 23, 2013 at 4:15 pm
If ever there was proof that marijuana addles ones brain, poor Sinead is proof positive.
She says "so I’m not going to rush to judge him . ." then does just that!
April 23, 2013 at 9:08 pm
Clinton, I'm not an apostate. The Catholic Church is. Go do an Internet search on Pope Leo XIII's vision, then get back to me.
Besides, have you ever heard of the First Amendment?
April 26, 2013 at 1:28 pm
Oh, that's a big surprise. I will support Sinead when she comes home.
I would rather focus on REAL (devout) Catholic celebrities-the dead and the living. There are many…let's start with Bob Newhart, Ricardo Montalban, Jack Haley (who shares my OWN birthday)…
April 27, 2013 at 3:03 am
I'm surprised and disappointed by many of you. Don't you see that Sinead is just another soul searching for God? How could she ever find Him here, with all these uncharitable comments?
Matthew Siekierski is right: the problem is that people don't get what unconditional love really is. It's loving someone enough to tell them what they don't want to hear but need to hear, even if that means they won't like you anymore. It's sacrifice.
Let's pray for her to see this.