Word: priesting
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...Connor's life has had enough twists and turns and zigs and zags to fill up a month of Behind the Music episodes. The priest's collar is her latest zag. After years of criticizing Roman Catholicism (including infamously ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992), she decided last year to be ordained as a priest by controversial Irish clergyman Bishop Michael Cox, the leader of a tiny religious sect. However, O'Connor hasn't quite joined mainstream Catholicism. Cox has come under fire in the past for reportedly offering confession over...
...back to the question of the day: What's the deal with her becoming a priest...
...says her priest name is Mother Bernadette Mary. And, she adds, her exact title is now archdeacon. "Basically, I do all the things that other priests do, allowing for the fact that I have two children," she says. "Obviously my children come first. So I do what I can. [But] I don't do marriages. The reason I don't do marriages is that people tend to want me to do them because I'm a pop star. It's the Al Green syndrome--everyone wants Al Green to marry them because he's Al Green...
...which will probably ultimately be the way I'll go," says O'Connor. "Obviously I am a very sexual person, and that's why it's a struggle." O'Connor opens up her jacket to reveal her sleek figure. "I do insist on wearing very feminine and feminine-cut priest gear," she says. "And I don't feel that being celibate means I have to cut off my sexuality, because that's my life force...
...however, deal boldly with love and lust. On Daddy I'm Fine, O'Connor cries out about feeling "sexy underneath the lights" and yearning to have sex with "every man in sight." Her newfound calling clearly hasn't dampened her rock-'n'-roll spirit. O'Connor may be a priest...