{"id":26342,"date":"2022-05-05T18:16:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T01:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=26342"},"modified":"2023-02-09T20:19:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T04:19:11","slug":"madonna-asks-pope-francis-for-a-meeting-for-a-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/madonna-asks-pope-francis-for-a-meeting-for-a-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna asks Pope Francis for a meeting for a confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between <strong>Madonna<\/strong> and the Catholic Church is not the best, but the artist is willing to change that situation. This Thursday, May 5th, via <strong>Twitter<\/strong>, she asked for a meeting with, none other than <strong>Pope Francis<\/strong> for a confession.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>Hello @Pontifex Francis -I\u2019m a good Catholic. I Swear! I mean I don\u2019t Swear! Its been a few decades since my last confession.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Would it be possible to meet up one day to discuss some important matters ?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I\u2019ve been excommunicated 3 times.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t seem fair. Sincerely Madonna\u201c, tweeted the artist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hello  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 \/>\nI\u2019ve been ex communicated 3 times. It doesn\u2019t seem fair. Sincerely Madonna<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Madonna (@Madonna) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Madonna has been active since the 1980s and collects some controversies with her <strong>religious<\/strong> opponents. It is that the artist has irritated the <strong>Church<\/strong> a few times , as when she began to popularize the <strong>crucifix<\/strong> as a fashion accessory that to this day continue to use accessories of this type.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>Of course, we cannot forget the release of \u201c<strong>Like a Prayer<\/strong>\u201c. In addition to the transformation in Madonna\u2019s career and reputation, the song earned a clip that divided opinions to the point of being banned in some countries.<\/p>\n<p>In it, the singer appears dancing in front of burning crucifixes, kissing a black saint and singing inside a church.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Madonna - Like A Prayer (Official Video)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/79fzeNUqQbQ?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In 1990, Madonna caused a stir with some numbers of the \u201c<strong>Blond Ambition<\/strong>\u201d tour, where she simulated masturbation and warned the public to have safe sex. Such attitudes made the Pope of the time, <strong>John Paul II<\/strong>, ask the Italian people to boycott the shows.<\/p>\n<p>Later that year, he dedicated the collection \u201c<strong>The Immaculate Collection<\/strong>\u201d to the Pope. In addition, he created a remix of \u201c<strong>Justify My Love<\/strong>\u201d with excerpts from the Book of Revelation, from the <strong>Bible<\/strong>. And, many of her later shows were considered \u201c<strong><em>too explicit<\/em><\/strong>\u201d and were dubbed the \u201c<strong><em>devil\u2019s circus<\/em><\/strong>\u201d by the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between Madonna and the Catholic Church is not the best, but the artist is willing to change that situation. This Thursday, May 5th, via Twitter, she asked for a meeting with, none other than Pope Francis for a confession. \u201cHello @Pontifex Francis -I\u2019m a good Catholic. I Swear! I mean I don\u2019t Swear! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":26351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56],"class_list":{"0":"post-26342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pop","8":"tag-madonna"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}