Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, better known as “Madonna,” has been the “Queen of Pop” for over 30 years.

Her first album, “Madonna,” was released in 1983. Her song “Borderline,” became the first in a string of 13 consecutive top 5 hits, a winning streak bested only by Elvis and the Beatles.

The Material Girl appeared on the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, electrifying or shocking her audience as she performed her hit song “Like a Virgin” on top of a giant white wedding cake, wearing a white wedding dress, and sporting crucifix jewelry. The Catholic Church was not impressed.

By 1987, Madonna’s signature mix of Catholicism and sexuality had garnered criticism and condemnation from the Pope. Ironically, her 1986 “Papa Don’t Preach” with its line “I’ve made up my mind; I’m keeping my baby,” garnered support from the Catholic Church because of its pro-life message, while angering Planned Parenthood which criticized the song as encouraging teenage pregnancy and poverty.

Her controversial video “Like a Prayer” debuted in 1989 with Madonna kissing a either a saint or Jesus (interpretations vary) and dancing in front of a field of burning crosses. The Catholic Church once again condemned her, and Pepsi pulls her $5 million multiyear endorsement campaign amidst growing criticism.

But Madonna continued to rake in the money. Forbes estimated her five-year income between 1985 and 1990 alone to be $125 million. She is still the top-paid female artist today.

You know you’ve been a bad girl when MTV, of all places, bans your 1990 five minute video featuring S&M, bondage, lesbian sex, and nudity.

In 1992, Madonna continued to celebrate her liberation from prevailing social mores with Sex, a book of erotic pictures of herself.

In 1996, Madonna shed her strict Catholic upbringing (as if she hadn’t already) and became an avid devotee of Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism.

In 2006 on her Confessions Tour, Madonna sang “Live to Tell” posed as a crucified Christ figure wearing a crown of thorns impaled on a large, lighted mirror cross.

In 2007 she walked away with her sixth Grammy Award, and the next year is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at age 49.

In 2012, Madonna scored her eighth No. 1 album; her fifth consecutive No. 1 album. Her next album will be released this spring.

Madonna the theologian has stated that her Catholic childhood “was a series of rules forced on me.” She claims to have “a funny relationship with religion. I’m a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody. But I’m not a big fan of rules. . . . Yes, I like to provoke; it’s in my DNA.”

As a child, Madonna said her Catholic father could never answer her question about why good things happen to bad people. She only began to find answers when she studied Kaballah, she said.

She once remarked, “If I became a born again Christian or renewed my faith in the Catholic Church and started hanging out with the Pope in Rome, people would be more comfortable with it.” Yet in recent years she has baptized her children in the Catholic Church.

Though it’s been a quarter of a century since Madonna first sang “Like a Prayer,” the former Catholic has not only dabbled in Kabbalah, but in 2013 began to study the Koran. It seems she is still not certain just whom she is praying to. “As my friend Yaman always tells me,” she said, “a good Muslim is a good Jew, and a good Jew is a good Christian, and so forth. I couldn’t agree more.”

In a 2013 interview with Harper’s Bazaar magazine, amidst criticism for her religious views, Madonna said she was forced to ask herself, “is trying to have a relationship with God daring? Maybe it is.”

In her forthcoming 2015 album, Madonna sings “Devil Prays,” a song she says is about how people take drugs to “connect to God or to a higher level of consciousness.” Madonna admits she’s “tried everything once,” but found that drugs only “give you the illusion of getting closer to God, but ultimately they kill you.”

So, the “Material Girl” continues her search for God in 2015.

What’s the title of Madonna the theologian’s newest album to be released this spring? You guessed it: “Rebel Heart.”

“Thou has made us for thyself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee,” said Augustine, one of the most famous rebel hearts of all time.

“Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Jesus.