Sinead O’connor religion: A lot of people want to know which religion that Irish singer and songwriter Sinéad O’Connor belongs to. We shall explore that in detail by looking at her religious background, opinion and changes over the years. People get confused on her religion because she is divided between Christian Religion and Islamic religion.
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Sinead Oconnor religion in the 90s
In the late 1990s, Sinead Oconnor was a devoted Catholic to the extent that she even got ordained as a priest by Bishop Michael Cox of the Irish Orthodox Catholic Church. The Irish Orthodox Catholic Church is an independent Catholic group not in communion with the Catholic Church. After her ordination, Sinead Oconnor indicated that she wished to be called Mother Bernadette Mary
Unfortunately, the Roman Catholic church does not permit the ordination of females to become a priest. Even when a woman is ordinated, they consider it null and void. And the person who ordinates a woman to become a priest in Catholic is at risk of getting excommunicated from the church.
Sinead Oconnor called for her ex-communication
In August 2018, the singer wrote an open letter to Pope Francis to excommunicate her. She previously wrote to Pope Benedict and Pope Paul II to excommunicate her but they didn’t.
Sinead Oconnor Opinion on Christianity
In July 2007, Sinead Oconnor in an interview with Christianity Today said categorically that she considers herself a Christian. She also said she believes in core Christian beliefs about the Trinity and Jesus Christ.
She said: “, “I think God saves everybody whether they want to be saved or not. So when we die, we’re all going home… I don’t think God judges anybody. He loves everybody equally.”
In another interview in 2002, she said that it was her Christian faith that helped her to overcome the effects of child abuse.
Sinead Oconnor Unhappy alleged sexual abuse in Catholic Church
Sinead Oconnor at a point was unhappy about some alleged cases of sexual abuse in the Catholic church. She tagged the Vatican as a nest of devils and called for the establishment of an alternative church. Shortly after the election of Pope Francis, she described the office of the Pope as an “anti-Christian office.”
Speaking on this, she said:
“Well, you know, I guess I wish everyone the best, and I don’t know anything about the man, so I’m not going to rush to judge him on one thing or another, but I would say he has a scientifically impossible task, because all religions, but certainly the Catholic Church, is really a house built on sand, and it’s drowning in a sea of conditional love, and therefore it can’t survive, and actually the office of Pope itself is an anti-Christian office, the idea that Christ needs a representative is laughable and blasphemous at the same time, therefore it is a house built on sand, and we need to rescue God from religion, all religions, they’ve become a smokescreen that distracts people from the fact that there is a holy spirit, and when you study the Gospels you see the Christ character came to tell us that we only need to talk directly to God, we never needed Religion…
Asked whether, from her point of view, it is therefore irrelevant who is elected to be Pope, O’Connor replied,
Genuinely I don’t mean disrespect to Catholic people because I believe in Jesus Christ, I believe in the Holy Spirit, all of those, but I also believe in all of them, I don’t think it cares if you call it Fred or Daisy, you know? Religion is a smokescreen, it has everybody talking to the wall. Thereisa Holy Spirit who can’t intervene on our behalf unless we ask it. Religion has us talking to the wall. The Christ character tells us himself: you must only talk directly to the Father; you don’t need intermediaries. We allthoughtwe did, and that’s ok, we’re not bad people, but let’s wake up… God was there before religion; it’s there [today] despite religion; it’ll be there when religion is gone.
Sinead Oconnor converts to Islam
In 2018, Sinead Oconnor converted to Islam religion. She called her conversion as “the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey”.
Afterward, she changed her name to Shuhada’ Davitt. Her switch to Islam was met with support from the Islam community. Taking to Twitter, she thanked them for their love and support. She since then has been spotted wearing a hijab.
So as of 2022, Sinead Oconnor is a Muslim.
