Copyright 1999 MGN Ltd.   
The Mirror 

May 3, 1999, Monday 

SINEAD'S APOLOGY TO POPE 

Caoihme Young 


IN a letter to the Pope, singer Sinead O'Connor last night apologised
for "trying to get his attention in hurtful ways". 

"I don't believe it's true that one should fear you too much to dare
to communicate with you," she wrote. 

"I'm the little noisy Irish woman. I've been trying to get your attention
for some years. I'm sorry I did it in hurtful ways when I was
younger. 

"But I have to have my voice heard." 

The Catholic Church has refused to recognise her bizarre ordination to
Mother Bernadette Marie O'Connor. 

A spokesman for the church in Ireland said rebel Bishop Michael Cox didn't
have the power to make her a priest. 

"The Catholic Church wouldn't recognise an ordination of that kind. The
Church doesn't ordain women," he said. 

In her letter to the Pope, the troubled singer asks him to give women
a chance to play a greater role in the Church. 

She says: "The Mothers of the world are best equipped to help. Please
your holiness empower us to do so."