Same. As a child, I thought the Pope and the church helped poor people and practiced showing people how to be good to each other by following the ten commandme

Same. As a child, I thought the Pope and the church helped poor people and practiced showing people how to be good to each other by following the ten commandments. When Sinead O Connor ripped up the picture of the Pope on SNL I remember asking why. Someone said the reason was because she was crazy. They were lying to me. Sinead O'Connor was drawing attention to child sexual abuse when nobody else was. > She’s far more the saint than that bastard John Paul II. I don't know about JP2's involvement in child sexual abuse (not doubting you, just saying I don't know *) but Ratzinger / Benedict absolutely deliberately prevented investigation into, and facilitated (by moving rapist priests into new parishes), child sexual abuse. Years later I apologized to O'Connor on Twitter and she took it with grace. * Update: some research showed the Vatican, under JP2, opposed extensions of the statutes of limitations in sex abuse cases.