Sinead O’Connor explained to Tom Dunne on Newstalk on Wednesday morning why she emailed the station with her views on the Bishop of Ferns. Sinead O’Connor has written to express her astonishment at the Bishop of Ferns request for parishioners to help meet the costs the Dioceses incurred while fighting cases taken by abuse victims.
In an email to Newstalk she accused the church of losing touch with true Christianity.
Here’s the full text of her email:
Please allow me to express my astonishment upon reading the statement made on the evening of March 1st by the bishop of Ferns, Denis Brennan.
His statement attempts to dictate to us in the same way the inquisition did, how christians should behave. Saying directly that it would be anti-christian of us to feel the church should pay its own bills for its own abuse with its own billions which it throttled from our grandparents, whom they also abused, physically, emotionally, psychologically and sexually.
Evidence of sexual abuse by clergy, according to the Murphy report, can be traced as far back as 320 a.d. and the first treatment centres for paedophile priests were created in 1940, named servants of the Paracletes. These centres were opened all over the world.
I would like to know exactly whose idea this plan was, and from where were issued the instructions or permission to make such a statement.
The statement and its attempted manipulation of good catholic people could be described as unbelievable, stupid, comical. But in my opinion the only word that does it justice is evil.
How long do they expect us to restrain ourselves?
We have put up with this bull dung for hundreds of years.
A true christian is someone who, in any given situation is supposed to ask themselves what would Jesus do, and try to do that.
How an organisation which has acted decade after decade only to protect its business interests above the interests of children, can feel it has the right to dictate to us what christian should do is beyond belief.
From the Pope on down through the vatican and through therefore, the lower echelons, the whole organisation in my belief is in fact utterly anti-christian. And evil. As proven by centuries of torture, bloodshed, burnings, terrorism, and coverings up of “the worst crime” known to man.
And if Jesus Christ is to be seen in the vulnerable of this world then all they have done is crucify the man over and over and over again.
If Christ was here, he would be burning down the vatican. And I for one would be helping him.
Sinead O’Connor.
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