Sinéad O’Connor was failed by the Church

In October 1996 I found myself in a seminar group with Sinéad O’Connor. My name then was O’Neill and the alphabet had lumped us together long before any other identity group had a chance to.

I was looking forward to hearing what she had to contribute and not at all dreaming about shaving my head, becoming her best friend and meeting Prince, but I never saw her again after that first week. Like so many times before and since, the ever-restless heart changed route.

I never kept up with her work, but from time to time I would read about something shocking she had said or done. She frequently spoke out on issues of rights, racism, child abuse, religion and feminism, and she was clearly a deeply damaged, troubled person desperately seeking stability and truth. If it was Galilee circa 31AD she would have recognised truth and found the rest that she so rightly longed for. But she was unable to recognise that which is “the same yesterday, today and forever” in the short span of time between 8 December 1966 and 26 July 2023.

That Christ was not clearly revealed to her through the Church which He established is something that should give us pause. After being ordained a fake priest in 1999, O’Connor (still restless) moved on again and converted to Islam, calling it, “The natural conclusion of any intelligent theologians’ journey”, But O’Connor was not an intelligent theologian. Her ignorance of Catholicism was staggering, and she had been badly let down by those tasked with feeding the sheep. She was a woman crying out in agony and hearing no adequate response from the Church of her cradle, a failing which Cardinal Ratzinger spoke of as he reflected on Jesus’ own agony:

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mourningdove~ said:

This disturbing headline (click bait?) deserves a response.

It was not only the Catholic Church that was unable to reach Sinead O'Connor.
Apparently, no other Christian church was able to.
... and that will be a matter for Sinead and the Lord to discuss.

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She was mentally ill. Was she a victim of the Church? I know her parents played a roll. There are all sorts of factors that weighed in on her situation and acting out. As far as the author of the article that briefly met her, that seems to be her impression. Maybe she felt Church did not accompany her enough. But people often fail to realize that people like Sinead are ill and require professional help. They can be exhausting and manipulative and act out in exasperating ways. I’m sure people have all sorts of opinions we do not agree with but they have their right to them.

Well the title is basically the gist of what the author seems to think. I found the article a bit softer.

Here you go:
It’s a typical leftist tactic to turn the guilty person into the victim and then try to cancel the person who dared to criticize her.