Sinead O'Connor Was Right
Call to Action -- July 27, 2023
I don’t remember watching Sinead O’Connor rip up her mother’s photo of Pope John Paul II— in 1992, I was barely four years old—yet that image of a shaved-headed, doe-eyed woman throwing the shredded photo at the camera never left my consciousness.
Perhaps it was the American outrage I remembered, outrage more concerned with Sinead’s action than her message: Fight the real enemy.
CTV News (Montreal) - September 13, 2026 Montreal, QC - Former Montreal priest Brian Boucher’s statutory release has been revoked following allegations he viewed child sexual abuse material on public transit. The Parole Board imposed stricter conditions for any future release. Boucher remains detained on new charges and is due back in court in November.
The Canadian Press - September 8, 2026 Montreal, QC - Former Montreal priest Brian Boucher, 64, will remain in custody until his next court appearance on Nov. 23, 2026, after waiving his right to a bail hearing on new charges involving child sexual abuse material. Boucher was previously sentenced to eight years in prison in 2019 for sexually assaulting two boys and was released into the community in 2024. He was stripped of his priesthood in 2020.