In 1989, the Vatican slammed the music video for her song, "Like a Prayer," as it depicted Madonna getting intimate with a Saint and crosses burning. In 2006, Cardinal Ersilio Tonino, with the ...

This concert is a blasphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the cross. She should be excommunicated." The Catholic Church has previously condemned Madonna's image, performances ...

"Being raised on a cross with a crown of thorns ... video for hit song "Like a Prayer", featuring burning crosses, statues crying blood and Madonna seducing a black Jesus. In 2004, a Vatican ...