Madonna, whose full name is Madonna Louise Ciccone, was born in Michigan and is descended from a devoutly Catholic southern Italian family from Pacentro in Abruzzo. The follower of the Jewish mystical religion Kabbalah has a history of using religious imagery in her performances.
But she does still go to church:-
Madonna visited a pilgrim church in Rome for more than an hour after provocatively dedicating her hit song Like a Virgin to Pope Benedict XVI during a concert in the Italian capital at the weekend, it was reported today...[she] went to the basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme and stayed "for a long time" in meditation before the relics of the True Cross, according to Father Gaetano Claudio Fioraso, the Priest-in-Charge.
Gerusalemme?
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, one of the seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, was consecrated in about AD325 to house relics brought from the Holy Land by St Helena, the mother of Constantine I...The relics include part of the panel on Christ's Cross bearing the word Nazarene in Hebrew, Latin and Greek, two thorns of His crown, a nail, three small wooden fragments of the True Cross, a bone from the index finger of St Thomas, fragments of the grotto of Bethlehem and the Holy Sepulchre, and a piece of the Good Thief's cross.
Jerusalem. Bethlehem.
So, maybe she was being a crypto Lover of the Land of Israel and fooling the priest?
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