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Sinead O’Connor: a journey from Christianity to Islam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the late 1990s, Bishop\u00a0Michael Cox\u00a0of the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church (an\u00a0Independent Catholic\u00a0group not in communion with the\u00a0Catholic Church)\u00a0ordained\u00a0O’Connor as a priest, though the Roman Catholic Church considers\u00a0ordination of women\u00a0to be invalid and asserts that a person attempting the sacrament of ordination upon a woman incurs\u00a0excommunication.^{<\/sup><\/p>\n}

The bishop had contacted her to offer ordination following her appearance on the\u00a0RT\u00c9\u2019s\u00a0Late Late Show,<\/i>\u00a0during which she told the presenter,\u00a0Gay Byrne, that had she not been a singer, she would have wished to have been a Catholic priest. After her ordination, she indicated that she wished to be called\u00a0Mother Bernadette Mary.<\/i><\/p>\n

In August 2018, via an\u00a0open letter, she asked Pope Francis to excommunicate her, as she had asked of Pope Benedict and John Paul II. She wrote for the\u00a0Sunday Independent,\u00a0<\/i>labelling the\u00a0Vatican\u00a0as “a nest of devils”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In October 2018, O’Connor converted to Islam, calling it “the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey.” Watch this video to see Sinead O’Connor or Sister Shuhada’ Davitt while giving her testimony of faith!<\/p>\n