Entangled in scandals about her “Toyboy” and tedious debates about her allegedly age-inappropriate style, Madonna has lost some of her pop culture punch of late. Musically, she is currently arranging her back catalogue. Her third remix album, named after Madame X’s single “I Don’t Search I Find,” has been announced for June.
Now she remembers her body and soul topic: The Catholic Church, represented here by the Pope himself. Via Twitter she asked Francis for a personal confession.
The “good Catholic” writes with a capricious undertone: “A few decades may have passed since my last confession. So wouldn’t it be possible to get together one day to discuss some really important things?”
Hello @Pontifex Francis—I’m a good Catholic. I swear! I mean I don’t swear! It has been a few decades since my last confession. Would it be possible to meet up one day to discuss some important matters ?
I’ve been ex communicated 3 times. It doesn’t seem fair. Sincerely Madonna— Madonna (@Madonna) May 5, 2022
She feels her excommunication, which she first denounced in the wake of her 1986 hit “Papa, Don’t Preach,” was particularly unfair. She now speaks of three exclusions from the religious community. Incidentally, Catholic authorities had never officially commented on this.
From the beginning of her career, “blasphemy” has been a recurring motif in the career of Madonna Louise Ciccone, who comes from an Italian immigrant family. Initially, cross symbols were just as present as excessive veneration of saints. From “Like A Virgin” to today.
Even in later years she did not give up. For the 2006 European tour, she was seen in the pose of Jesus with a crown of thorns on the cross, which earned her flaming disapproval from Cardinal Ersilio Tonini.
Then, two years later, a dig at the immaculate birth of Mary. At a concert in Rome, she personally addressed the German Pope Benedict XVI with the 1980s classic “Like A Virgin”. “I dedicate this song to the Pope because I am a child of God”.
With her appeal to Francis, Madonna fans are now speculating whether she is really looking for a serious conversation with the Pope with her Twitter campaign. Does she even want to initiate a “reconciliation”?
After all, she pointed out her inner struggle in an interview in 2016: “I also feel an inexplicable connection to Catholicism, as can be seen in all my works”.