It appears that the controversial singer, Katy Perry, who claimed as recently as last year that she no longer identifies as a Christian, says she had a change of heart after meeting with Pope Francis in April.According to USA Today singer Katy Perry was invited to Rome in April to speak about transcendental meditation at a Vatican conference that included other New Age notables such as motivational speaker Tony Robbins, self-help guru Deepak Chopra and the controversial Dr. Mehmet Oz. The plan was to allow these speakers to air their views and then to have them robustly challenged; however, attendees say that challenge never occurred.
But Perry may have encountered a different kind of challenge when she, her mother, and beau Orlando Bloom met with the pope later, a meeting she described as life changing.
“My mom has prayed for me my entire life hoping I’d come back to God,” she told Vogue Australia. “I’m such a big fan of Pope Francis. It’s a combination of compassion, humility, sternness and refusal. He is a rebel – a rebel for Jesus.”
Just last year, the troubled star, who admits to having suffered depression after a heartbreaking end to her marriage to Russell Brand, told the press: "I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God. I pray all the time—for self-control, for humility. There's a lot of gratitude in it. Just saying 'thank you' sometimes is better than asking for things," she said.
Raised in an evangelical Christian home, she started out as a gospel singer and turned to pop music when she was unable to get a career going. She often spoke about her strict upbringing, saying that the only way she knew about Madonna and satanic rock star Marilyn Manson was because her family picketed their concerts.
She has also been engaged in a law suit with two sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from whom Perry purchased a convent. However, the nuns decided not to sell the “sacred ground” to the singer and a law suit ensued. Perry eventually prevailed in court where one of the sisters collapsed and died.
Anyone who has been through a life-changing conversion knows that these abrupt changes of heart take a long time to come to fruition. There are a lot of “stops and starts” with the person being constantly pulled back into the world and then trying to come back to God. Jesus' parable about the good seed in Matthew 13 is the perfect description of the kind of challenges that confront the soul trying to make its way back to God.
Let’s keep Katy Perry in our prayers during this delicate time in her spiritual life!
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