📺On October 3, 1992, Sinéad O’Connor shocked ‘Saturday Night Live’ viewers by tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II during her a cappella performance of Bob Marley’s ‘War.’ She changed the lyrics to address child abuse, then declared, ‘Fight the real enemy.’
Though condemned at the time, later revelations about abuse and cover-ups within the Catholic Church led many to reassess her protest