INTERVIEW: Sinead O’Connor’s Act of Love

Long before Britney Spears shaved her head, there was Sinead O’Connor. Like Spears, the Irish-born O’Connor has generated her share of controversy. A Grammy Award-winning singer best known for her hugely popular 1990 hit “Nothing Compares 2 U,” O’Connor created a furor when she ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live” in October 1992. Although she is herself a Catholic, O’Connor declared that John Paul, who died in 2005, was “the real enemy.” Since then, although O’Connor has put out a number of records since her breakthrough 1990 album “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” she has not had enjoyed continued success in the United States. All that may change, however, with her new release, “Theology,” a two-CD set consisting of an acoustic and full-band version of 11 songs, most written by O’Connor herself, and based on passages from the Old Testament.

O’Connor recently spoke to Beliefnet about her fascination with the Rastafari movement, the other religions that appeal to her, and the problems she has with Catholicism. […read more]

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