THE VATICAN IS WARNING MADONNA THAT SHE FACES EX-COMMUNICATION IF SHE GOES AHEAD WITH A MOCK CRUCIFIXION WHEN SHE BRINGS HER ‘CONFESSION TOUR’ TO ROME THIS SUNDAY.
The pop deity descends during her show on a suspended mirrored, disco ball-type cross while wearing a fake crown of thorns, an act has already ticked off Catholics in the U.S. "This time the limits have really been pushed too far," fumed Cardinal Ersilio Tonino, who said he was speaking with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI. "This concert is a blasphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the cross. She should be excommunicated."
Come on Ersilio, that comment is a lot like waving a red flag in front of a charging bull.
Word is NBC urged her to cut the crucifixion from her concert to be broadcast in November. But it's staying. "She felt like that was a cornerstone of the show," said NBC exec Kevin Reilly. "We viewed it and didn't see it as being inappropriate." Liz Rosenberg, mouthpiece for the ecumenical hate object, tells us: "I think the Pope would enjoy the show and would applaud her performance. He has an open invitation to see for himself the eloquence and beauty that Madonna expresses for humanity while performing her poignant song 'Live to Tell.'”
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