The New York Times Arts Briefing reports:

"I realize some of you may be offended by what I'm saying, but what do you say to the families who were betrayed by the people in whom they believed?"

Now, that's nothing. A fuller quote was run by Seattle's Post Intelligencer:

"God has been a witness to the corruption of His leadership, of the exploitation and abuses ... by the clergy," she was quoted as saying. "I realize some of you may be offended by what I'm saying, but what do you say to the families who were betrayed by the people in whom they believed?"

Mens News Daily adds:

Hip-hop singer Lauryn Hill accused Catholic Church leaders of "moral corruption, exploitation and abuse" during a performance at a Christmas concert at the Vatican.

Ananova reports:

Hill told the crowd to seek blessings "from God not men" and said she did "not believe in representatives of God on earth".

Reuters reports:

"I did not come here to celebrate the birth of Christ with you but to ask you why you are not in mourning for his death inside this place," she said according to a transcript of her statement run by the Rome newspaper La Repubblica.

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"God has been a witness to the corruption of his leadership, of the exploitation and abuses ... by the clergy," she said.

SMH reports:

"Holy God has witnessed the corruption of your leadership, of the exploitation and abuses which are the minimum that can be said for the clergy," she added, calling on the hierarchy to "repent".

And finally, the Catholic League, the apologists for the abuses of that awful church, attacked Lauryn Hill, but not on the merits. Instead, they merely poisoned the well:

“Last year Lauryn Hill stepped onstage at Carnegie Hall and admitted to the crowd that her life was ‘a mess.’ Judging from her latest outburst in Vatican City, nothing seems to have changed. Pathologically miserable, Hill has confessed to taking ‘some lighter fluid and a match and burned everything I had built because the foundation was wrong.’ It is no wonder that in one of her songs, she literally asks God to ‘save me from myself.’

“Hill’s personal problems do not justify her rants against the Catholic Church. After all, Sinead O’Connor isn’t exactly normal, either, and she justifiably paid a price for her stunt on Saturday Night Live when she ripped up a picture of the pope. We expect Hill’s career, already in decline, will continue to head south. Columbia Records should show her the gate.”

I guess no one told the Catholic League that an ad hominem attack is not an argument. Oh, and Sinead was right! Guess what she was protesting? Child molestation by the Catholic Church in Ireland!

NFW?! Are you kidding me? I couldn't remember why she did that--I assumed it was access to birth control