Word: priestly
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...long weekend. Her nearly bare head, combined with her wide, bright eyes, gives her a beautiful, birdlike appearance, like something newly hatched. She's wearing brown boots, a blue coat that drapes below her knees, black sunglasses perched on the top of her head and--most significant--a white priest's collar around her neck...
...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...