Madonna wants to meet the Pope and wrote to him on Twitter

Response from the Pope is still pending

Cardinal Ersilio Tonino, with the approval of the then Pope, is said to have said at the time of her appearance in Rome in 2006, “Mirror» have said that Madonna took things «too far» with the tweet, describing her behavior as «blasphemous». «Crossing yourself during the concert in the City of Popes and Martyrs is an act of open hostility. It’s just a scandal and an attempt to attract attention,” the cardinal said. “I just want to tell her that if she thinks she has to re-enact the suffering and death of Christ on the cross to get media attention, she must really be at rock bottom.”

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