{"id":89304,"date":"2023-10-07T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T23:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=89304"},"modified":"2023-10-07T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T23:32:50","slug":"madonna-and-her-mission-to-meet-pope-francis-is-she-ready-to-start-her-spiritual-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/madonna-and-her-mission-to-meet-pope-francis-is-she-ready-to-start-her-spiritual-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna and her mission to meet Pope Francis, is she ready to start her spiritual journey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Madonna<\/strong>, the definitive <strong>Queen of Pop<\/strong> has a mission: it might look cringe or peculiar for some, but it looks like she hasn&#8217;t been coping with her <strong>excommunication<\/strong> from the<strong> Catholic Church<\/strong> in recent years, and she&#8217;s spilled the tea about wanting to<strong> meet Pope Francis<\/strong> to talk things through in the past!<\/p>\n<p>Now, we all know that Madonna, the queen that she is, has a legendary status in the world of music. Yet, behind all the decades of hits and iconic performances, there&#8217;s one little thing that&#8217;s escaped from her hands: <strong>the Catholic religion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis-meeting.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis-meeting-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis-meeting-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis-meeting-750x469.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wonder why? Well, the Vatican has cataloged Madonna as<em><strong> &#8220;persona non grata&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> (which basically means they don&#8217;t want her over there. Oh well, their loss!). The hate has even gone so far to the point where she has even been <strong>excommunicated<\/strong> not one, but <strong>THREE times<\/strong> since she rose to stardom.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s face it: our queen was too ahead of her time, and that&#8217;s what provoked this horrendous backlash. We&#8217;re sure previous popes had their reasons, and here&#8217;s the tea: Madonna simulated a<strong> crucifixion<\/strong> in her &#8220;Confessions World Tour&#8221; in <strong>2006,<\/strong> and even earlier in her career <strong>(1990)<\/strong> she <strong>touched her cookie<\/strong> while performing for the Blonde Ambition World Tour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Madonna-and-Pope-Francis-750x469.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But Madonna is persistent and, in a bid to catch the Vatican&#8217;s attention, the now <strong>65-year-old pop diva<\/strong> posed with a <strong>black hoodie<\/strong> that had an image of Pope Francy printed on it, courtesy of designers <strong>Abel Cepeda Ljoka and Will Kowall<\/strong>. But this is not her latest attempt! Last year she took Twitter (now X) to tell His Holyness she wanted to have a little chat with him:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Madonna\/status\/1522015424841281536\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@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>&mdash; Madonna (@Madonna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Madonna\/status\/1522015424841281536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates about this story where pop meets pope. Who knows? Maybe they&#8217;ll end up having an actual meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna, the definitive Queen of Pop has a mission: it might look cringe or peculiar for some, but it looks like she hasn&#8217;t been coping with her excommunication from the Catholic Church in recent years, and she&#8217;s spilled the tea about wanting to meet Pope Francis to talk things through in the past! 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