Wednesday, July 17, 2013

One more distinction for Madonna: she’s under study for diabolism

              Church exorcism body to analyze her work as a case of concerted evil in entertainment
                          
A still taken from the video for Madonna's hit ‘Like A Prayer’
A still taken from the video for Madonna's hit ‘Like A Prayer’
            
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, best known as Madonna, has been named by Time magazine as one of the 15 most powerful women in the 20th Century and by CNN as “arguably the most influential female recording artist of all time.” Sales of her records have topped 300 million, and her last tour made an unsurpassed $305 million, raising her net worth to over a billion. Her biography in Wikipedia takes up 31 pages, only nine short of Dwight Eisenhower’s, eight short of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s and nine more than Bill Clinton’s.

To all of which may be added one new distinction. Madonna will come under study by a panel of the Catholic Church later this month for demonic possession. This is not altogether a new idea. Various exploitations of sexual activity, often perverse, have long been a powerful additive to an undoubted and extraordinary musical talent. Her 1990 “Blond Ambition World Tour,” for instance, described by Rolling Stone as “an elaborately choreographed, sexually provocative extravaganza,” was denounced by both the Catholic and Anglican Church. Her “Confessions Tour” in 2006 caused the Russian Orthodox Church and the Federation of Jewish Communities to urge all their members to boycott her concerts. But submitting her as a case for exorcism is new.

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7 comments:

  1. Hard to find anything good to say about her. The name is insulting and mocking enough. I would like to know if this panel has a website that they would be reporting to.

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  2. Certainly a case can be made. Everything about her public career has been in the aggressive promotion of wickedness. If there isn't direct diabolic activity then she's the devil's greatest pawn in ages ... and Lady Gags is clearly her disciple.

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  3. I wonder how this would progress. I'm pretty sure she's baptized Catholic. There are a lot of people with public influence that I admit having difficulty having compassion for. But "Madonna," who is from near my hometown I DO have compassion for and truly pray she will be free of all evil influence, for her own sake, free to serve the God who loved her into existence and every moment calls her by name as he does each of us. ...I can't help throwing in here what Fr. Francis Martin says regularly: "Compassion looks to the person; pity looks to the need." I pray she knows and receives God's compassion, mercy and love.

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  4. I think to say they will be discussing Madonna for 5 days is a stretch and validates her a little too much - they are discussing pop culture, which is a valid and important discussion to have. Those who don't believe in demons are inexperienced and ignorant of the spiritual life, and I would say have never seriously put on spiritual combat boots and done battle with him.

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  5. How is this not a complete waste of time? Most young people could careless about her? How about we study Justin Beiber instead?
    Do pray for her though.

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  6. I remember in her youth she had a song "Papa don't preach ... I'm keeping my baby".

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  7. Please please let's not waste our time with this.....

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