Sinead O'Connor

[Miigwech]

This is a beautiful song by the female Priest, Sinead O'Connor. In it, she offers healing for herself. Abused as a child by her family and her church, the institutions that were supposed to protect her, she continues to protest. She may not be liked by some but she stands up to the powerful by loving the weak, one must respect that. This is for the child in all of us.



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[Ken Burch]

1. Thank you for that. Almost too beautiful and moving to listen to.

A healing song for a wounded world.

[Wella]

2. What is she a priest of?

I haven't kept up with her.

[Miigwech]

4. Ordained

"In the late 1990s, Bishop Michael Cox of the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church (an Independent Catholic group not in communion with the Catholic Church) ordained O'Connor as a priest. The Catholic Church considers ordination of women to be invalid and asserts that a person attempting the sacrament of ordination upon a woman incurs excommunication.[75] 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 ordination, she indicated that she wished to be called Mother Bernadette Mary." Wikipedia

[Wella]

5. "Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church"

Gonna have to Google that. Thanks!

[packman]

8. So she's a priest in the same way

that I could become a pastor if I send a guy $100 to a college he founded and runs in his shed in the backyard and sells his certificate of Pastorhood via the internet. Yah, a priest "Mother Bernadette Mary"- best laugh of the day.

[Hekate]

12. There are priests and priestesses in many different religions, and they take different paths...

....to take up their calling. No one has a lock on ultimate truth, including you, Sweeney; most just strive toward it as best we can.

[packman]

15. Who is "Sweeney"?

[Hekate]

16. The author of post #11, or so he says

[packman]

14. I am not an average S.O.B.

I am an above average S.O.B.

[roguevalley]

13. no packman, she isn't.

[packman]

17. I love Sinéad O'Connor

And have since I first saw her way back when on SNL singing "Nothing Compares 2U". She had/has a quality of passion, depth and despair that you rarely see in a performer whose works comes from her heart and experiences. WHAT I objected to in my mini-rant was the handing out of phony titles by organizations. I am a firm believer that titles should mean something and should be earned and not passed out for life experiences alone - if so, I deserve a much grander title than given to me by an earlier poster.

[Sweeney]

21. I like Anni Defranco

Art is subject, and her subject is love, most often, and love is what life is all about. I don't care what her orientation is. She is one of the best poets I have ever found.
Sweeney

[Ken Burch]

24. But that wasn't what happened here.

And you've belittled her ordination for no real reason. It's not as if her entrance into the priesthood of this church has harmed anyone.

[Cerridwen]

18. No. More like an honorary degree from a religious organization/church.

Other women priests have been ordained in the Anglican Church and others still have formed their own religious groups such as the Roman Catholic Women Priests.

Dissent amongst the religious is hardly new. It began long before the New Testament. If you look at the history during and shortly after the time frame of Jesus, you'll see many religious debating and discriminating against each others' beliefs and religious practices. A lot of religious persecution was religion against religion; including many of the Christ centered sects. The result is generally the creation of another religion to accommodate the beliefs of their membership. In other cases the history books, written by the "winners," just completely ignore them as though they never existed or refer to them as sects rather than religions.

Great schisms have happened and new religions are born.

The Roman Catholic church has had a few groups splinter from it's control. Including an early version of the Irish Catholic Church.

[Ken Burch]

23. No. She'd be a Roman Catholic priest

if that church wasn't so obsessed with defending its entrenched phallocracy.

[vanlassie]

3. I LOVE Sinead O'Connor.

[Mnemosyne]

6. Beautiful. Thanks Miigwech. nt

[dembotoz]

7. k and r

[LawDeeDah]

9. She is wonderful. Always loved her the first time I heard her.

Back when working with a small group of people in an office we took breaks once in a while from our stress, blasted this one of Sinead's and danced wild.

[Miigwech]

20. Nice

Thanks LawDeeDah, this was an enjoyable, fun video, got me dancing !

[Miigwech]

22. Her latest song

She has "Eight good reasons" to stick around .........

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