Scottish Catholic Observer

Susan Boyle is likely to hit international headlines again today when she appears on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the US.

Fresh from her performance at the Papal Mass at Bellahouston, Glasgow—and a rare public appearance to sign copies of her new book The Woman I Was Born To Be in London on Saturday—the Scottish Catholic singer is expected to talk today about her new biography and her second album, The Gift, due to be released next month. She is also due to sing on the show.

It will be interesting to see what Ms Boyle has to say about performing for the Holy Father and meeting him when he visited Scotland on September 16. Her role in the celebrations—which prior to the day was not without its critics—was a resounding success as part of what proved to be both a joyful and dignified Mass.

Blackburn’s finest, who rose to fame on Britain’s Got Talent, said at the weekend that she wrote her biography because she is ‘as good as anybody else and can keep going.’ In the book she reveals that her mother was advised by doctors not to continue her pregnancy with Susan but she ignored the advice because of her Catholic Faith. After the birth, doctors said Susan would never amount to anything—words that haunted Ms Boyle throughout her life.

—Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer newspaper’s blog