Sinead blasts abuse priests as 'just evil'
Singer Sinead O'Connor has condemned the "grotesque" cover-ups of clerical child abuse in the Catholic Church and suggested that God would be suing for defamation as all those involved are "just evil".
O'Connor was ordained as a priest by a breakaway church 10 years ago and says her strong faith is the reason she wants to defend the name of God.
"I am Catholic by birth and culture and I'm very proud of that. I love the idea of God, which is why I feel so passionate about this.
"These were men passing themselves off as representing God, and in their actions they have completely confused the idea of God. All I can say is if God were here on earth, he would be suing a lot of people for libel.
"You hear about these stories without any emotional reaction, but if you actually sat down and thought about what has happened to these abuse survivors, you could cry a river."
Blast
O'Connor said that if Ireland was a "civilised" country, the Irish ambassador in the Vatican City would be sent home and the papal nuncio would be expelled from the Vatican.
The chart-topping performer told the Herald she felt she had to come out and publicly blast the Church as the silence throughout the religious community became "deafening".
"The mood in the whole country right now couldn't even be described.
"There has been such a deafening silence emanating from Rome since the report came out," she added.
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- Caitlin McBride
