Reports suggests that a story claiming that a Catholic priest who died for 48 minutes and woke up to say that God is a woman, may be false.

The Daily Monitor recently released a story which claimed that a priest, John Michael O'Neil, claimed to have gone heaven where he met with God whom he described as being described as being warm and motherly.

"The fact that God is a Holy Mother instead of a Holy Father doesn’t disturb me, she is everything I hoped she would be and even more!" he was said to have said.

According to reports from The Friendly Atheist, the photo from the story is actually a photo from Shutterstock, and the story itself originated on the World News Daily Report.

UK Metro news tried to confirm the authenticity from a Catholic priest, who spoke to them on behalf of the Archbishop of Boston saying, "We do not have a priest of this name. I believe this could be a hoax story."