Hollywood's Drama Queens
Madonna
Date of Birth; 16 August, 1958
Occupation: Singer
Our favourite Material Girl has long been famous for peppering her performances with raunchy sexual imagery. Yet all this seems like child’s play when compared to her use of religious imagery, so controversial that it has nearly seen the star ex-communicated from the Catholic Church. Madonna’s first collision with religious authority came in 1989. Despite hailing from a Catholic-Italian background, Madonna’s video for her hit record ‘Like A Prayer’ featured the singer cavorting with a young Jesus, against a backdrop of burning crosses and blood-crying statues. The Catholic Church was not impressed, proclaiming the young singer blasphemous. Madonna’s later fixation on Kabbalah added further insult to injury. Just when the public thought Madonna had calmed, her 2008 ‘Confessions Tour’ landed in Rome, a stone’s throw away from Vatican City. In true diva style, the performance saw Madonna descending from a suspended glittery cross, head adorned with a fake crown of thorns. Cardinal Ersilio Tonino, speaking with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI, exclaimed: "This concert is a blashphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the cross. She should be excommunicated."
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Date of Birth; 16 August, 1958
Occupation: Singer
Our favourite Material Girl has long been famous for peppering her performances with raunchy sexual imagery. Yet all this seems like child’s play when compared to her use of religious imagery, so controversial that it has nearly seen the star ex-communicated from the Catholic Church. Madonna’s first collision with religious authority came in 1989. Despite hailing from a Catholic-Italian background, Madonna’s video for her hit record ‘Like A Prayer’ featured the singer cavorting with a young Jesus, against a backdrop of burning crosses and blood-crying statues. The Catholic Church was not impressed, proclaiming the young singer blasphemous. Madonna’s later fixation on Kabbalah added further insult to injury. Just when the public thought Madonna had calmed, her 2008 ‘Confessions Tour’ landed in Rome, a stone’s throw away from Vatican City. In true diva style, the performance saw Madonna descending from a suspended glittery cross, head adorned with a fake crown of thorns. Cardinal Ersilio Tonino, speaking with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI, exclaimed: "This concert is a blashphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the cross. She should be excommunicated."
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