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Fact #64558

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Short story:

Sinead O'Connor is booed off the stage when she appears at the 30th Anniversary tribute show for Bob Dylan in Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA. A few days earlier, she had torn up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on tv show Saturday Night Live, and declared "Fight the real enemy".

Full article:

Madonna : I think there is a better way to present her ideas rather than ripping up an image that means a lot to other people." She added, "If she is against the Roman Catholic Church and she has a problem with them, I think she should talk about it.
(Source : interview in The Irish Times)

Sinead O'Connor : The Catholic church has controlled us by controlling education, through their teachings on sexuality, marriage, birth control and abortion, and most spectacularly through the lies they taught us with their history books.