Sinéad wants Papal Nuncio out

ORDAINED singer Sinéad O’Connor believes the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, should be expelled from the country because of what she calls the contempt displayed by the Vatican to the Murphy Commission on clerical child abuse.

Since 1992, when she tore up a photograph of the then Pope John Paul II on live US television, the Dublin-based star has been highlighting the scourge of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Now, in the immediate wake of the Murphy report, Ms O’Connor has stated: “On behalf of all Irish artists, though most have kept their mouth shut, I demand the Irish Government expel the Papal Nuncio and recall the Irish Ambassador from the Vatican City in order to respect the people of Ireland who are outraged by the contempt displayed by the Vatican for the suffering endured by survivors of clerical abuse.”