{"id":1466364,"date":"2022-05-06T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T14:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466364"},"modified":"2022-05-06T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T14:44:40","slug":"madonna-tweets-at-pope-asks-for-meeting-im-a-good-catholic-i-swear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/madonna-tweets-at-pope-asks-for-meeting-im-a-good-catholic-i-swear\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Tweets At Pope, Asks For Meeting: \u2018I\u2019m A Good Catholic. I Swear!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmadonna-tweets-at-pope-asks-for-meeting-im-a-good-catholic-i-swear%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Madonna-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Madonna is known for mocking religion, not following it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s why the 63-year-old pop star raised a few eyebrows by tweeting at the pope and asking him to set up a meeting with her. She also described herself as a \u201cgood Catholic\u201d in the message.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHello @Pontifex Francis \u2014I\u2019m a good Catholic. I Swear! I mean I don\u2019t Swear! Its been a few decades since my last confession. Would it\u00a0 be possible to meet up one day to discuss some important matters ? I\u2019ve been ex communicated 3 times. It doesn\u2019t seem fair. Sincerely Madonna,\u201d the tweet read.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Pontifex<\/a> Francis \u2014I\u2019m a good Catholic. I Swear! I mean I don\u2019t Swear! Its been a few decades since my last confession. Would it  be possible to meet up one day to discuss some important matters ?<br \/>I\u2019ve been ex communicated 3 times. It doesn\u2019t seem fair. Sincerely Madonna<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Madonna (@Madonna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Madonna\/status\/1522015424841281536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to Page Six, Madonna was denounced by the Catholic Church after a 2006 performance in Rome in which she was \u201ccrucified\u201d on stage. The act was deemed blasphemous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTo crucify herself during the concert in the city of Popes and martyrs is an act of open hostility. It is nothing short of a scandal and an attempt to generate publicity,\u201d the late Cardinal Ersilio Tonini said with Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s blessing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe time will come when this woman will realize that Christ died on the cross for her as well, that he spilled his blood for her,\u201d the cardinal continued. \u201cI feel pity for her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Madonna was raised Catholic but hasn\u2019t adhered to the tenets of the religion in years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even before the 2006 drama, Madonna was called out by the Vatican following the release of her 1989 music video for \u201cLike a Prayer,\u201d which featured religious symbols. The Vatican urged followers to boycott one of her music tours as well, per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/madonnas-controversial-like-a-prayer-marks-30-years-since-causing-an-uproar\"><span>Fox News<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The video showed the singer dancing in front of burning crosses, experiencing stigmata (wounds corresponding to the crucifixion of Jesus) and kissing a black Jesus statue who later comes to life in the church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The \u201cLike a Prayer\u201d music video director Mary Lambert described how they came up with the visuals, telling <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/hollywood-flashback-mary-lambert-reflects-on-directing-madonnas-controversial-like-a-prayer-music-video\"><span>The Hollywood Reporter<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201cI wanted to explore the correlation between sexual ecstasy and religious ecstasy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lambert also said it came about from \u201cMadonna telling me she wanted to \u2018f*** a black guy on the altar.\u2019\u201d So Lambert replied, \u201cWell, why not have it be a Black Jesus? Let\u2019s just go all the way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those are not the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/madonna-catholic-church-love-hate-140000937.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CMy%20own%20Catholicism%20is%20in,told%20The%20Times%20that%20year.\">examples<\/a> of blatant religious mockery. On the \u201cPapa Don\u2019t Preach\u201d singer\u2019s world tour in 2015-2016, she and her dancers wore modified nun\u2019s habits and danced around crucifix-shaped stripper poles to the song \u201cHoly Water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna is known for mocking religion, not following it.\u00a0That\u2019s why the 63-year-old pop star raised a few eyebrows by tweeting at the pope and asking him to set up a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1481860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}