I wonder if we can rescue God from Greg before it is too late...!
Ordination of Sinéad O'Connor
In the late 1990s, Bishop Michael Cox of the Independent Catholic group performed the ceremony of priestly ordination on O'Connor. The Roman Catholic Church believes that ordination of women is impossible, and that a person simulating the sacrament of ordination incurs latae sententiae excommunication. The bishop had contacted her to offer ordination following her appearance on the RTÉ's Late Late Show, during which she told the presenter, Gay Byrne, that had she not been a singer, she would have wished to have been a Catholic priest. After her service of ordination, she indicated that she wished to be called Mother Bernadette Mary.
In 2003 she announced that she was going to leave the music industry and train to be a catechist.
In 2005 she performed at Madison Square Garden at the Jammy Awards and announced plans to release a reggae-influenced album, Throw Down Your Arms, in October 2005. ABC Radio News, announcing her new album, reported that she has found solace in the Rastafari faith, and that the religion "saved her life."
In a 2005 interview by the reggae artist Burning Spear in Andy Warhol's magazine, Interview, she reported that her mission is to "rescue God from religion."
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