{"id":468,"date":"2015-03-12T17:57:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=468"},"modified":"2015-03-12T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:57:36","slug":"madonna-a-catholic-church-fan-in-the-francis-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Madonna: A Catholic Church Fan in the Francis Era?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/madonna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-472\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/madonna.jpg?resize=477%2C450\" alt=\"madonna\" width=\"477\" height=\"450\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As reported in the Vatican&#8217;s La Stampa, Madonna has made an <a href=\"http:\/\/vaticaninsider.lastampa.it\/en\/news\/detail\/articolo\/musica-music-musica-39671\/\" target=\"_blank\">overture <\/a>to Pope Francis.\u00a0 Am I the only one who finds this chilling?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGod bless Pope Francis. We\u2019ve got to meet. A plate of pasta, a bottle of good wine. Do I have a chance?\u201d This is what world-famous American pop star Madonna had to say in her interview with journalist Luca Dondoni for Italian radio station RTL 102.5, just as her new album is released.<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question about the relationship the singer has with religion (some of the songs in her new album have strong religious connotations), Madonna said: \u201cThey are a bit to do with my relationship with God\u00a0 and\/or sexuality or playing with the idea of God and religion or sexuality; these are all themes that are present in my songs \u2013 as you know. It\u2019s also the reason I have been excommunicated by the Catholic Church not once, not twice but three times\u2026 I don\u2019t know\u2026do you think the Pope would invite me?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sex, religion, religion, sex, a plate of pasta&#8230;.I have these themes.<\/p>\n<p>Do professional anti-Catholics like Madonna, so accomplished at driving the world into sin and contempt for God, honor Pope Francis because of his personality, or does it have something to do with what he seems to do to\/for the Church?\u00a0 Will Madonna start loving Catholicism now, or is she only reveling in it&#8217;s demise?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the interviewer remarked: \u201cI think that if you and this Pope meet, he\u2019ll give you a hug,\u201d the queen of pop replied: \u201cfantastic, introduce me to him\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to say too much before you get an order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the Vatican&#8217;s La Stampa, Madonna has made an overture to Pope Francis.\u00a0 Am I the only one who finds this chilling? \u201cGod bless Pope Francis. We\u2019ve got to meet. A plate of pasta, a bottle of good wine. Do I have a chance?\u201d This is what world-famous American pop star Madonna had <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=468\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}