Madonna has said that she wants to meet with Pope Francis, adding it was unfair that she’d been “excommunicated” by the Catholic church “three times”.The singer has had a difficult relationship with Catholicism for a long time.
Her video for ‘Like A Prayer’ was banned by the church in 1989 after featuring burning crosses and an erotic depiction of Jesus.
Italian Roman Catholic historian Roberto de Mattei said at the time: “The video is a blasphemy and insult because it shows immorals inside a church” (via The Independent).Pope John Paul II also once encouraged fans to boycott Madonna in Italy and to not attend her ‘Blond Ambition’ tour.
She was then criticised by the Catholic Church again in 2006 after a concert in Rome featured a mock crucifixion.Cardinal Ersilio Tonino remarked of that: “This time the limits have really been pushed too far.
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