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We need to pray for Madonna. Our Lady of Czestochowa..pray for us!
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09061606.html

Uproar in Poland as Pop Diva Madonna Schedules Concert for Catholic Holy Day

By Peter J. Smith

WARSAW,
June 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American pop-singer Madonna has
generated a firestorm of controversy in Poland by scheduling her
performance in Warsaw to coincide with a solemn religious feast
honoring the Virgin Mary in the predominately Catholic nation.

Madonna
brings her "Sticky & Sweet" tour, the eighth concert tour for the
“Queen of Pop,” to Warsaw’s Bemowo Airport, on August 15, the day on
which the Catholic Church celebrates the solemn Marian feast of the
Assumption. On that day thousands of Poles traditionally make a
pilgrimage to a Marian shrine known as the “Black Madonna” sanctuary in
Jasna Gora, which is meant to honor the Virgin Mary, who is popularly
credited with having delivered Poland from many crises in the nation’s
history.

Madonna, a lapsed Catholic whose real name is Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone,
garnered similar outrage for her 2006 “Confessions Tour,” in which the
pop diva opened her act appearing crucified, descending from a
suspended mirrored cross. Madonna’s performance in Rome had prompted
calls from Church hierarchy for her excommunication (see coverage). This performance is likewise being taken as a direct affront to Poland’s cultural and religious identity.

"The
concert of a highly perverse singer who calls herself ‘Madonna’ is
deeply humiliating to Warsaw residents and Poles in general,"
said parliamentarian Marian Brudzynski, a member of the opposition Law
and Justice party, who wrote a letter to the mayor of Warsaw, Hanna
Gronkiewicz-Waltz, asking for her intervention.

"August
15 is a symbolic date. It's not a coincidence that Madonna booked that
day for her concert in Poland. It's a provocation,” said Brudzynski.
“She was aware we were not going to just sit and pretend nothing
happened, she knew very well how offensive this would be to us."

In
2006, Madonna had inflamed Poles by having her face appear on the cover
of the Polish magazine, Machina, parodying the Black Madonna of
Czestochowa.

"It's
not a problem for me to go to a concert on a holy day, but the fact
that on a Marian holiday somebody planned a concert of a star, who is
so provocative and blasphemous, is a devil's trick,” stated Jan Pospieszalski, a well known musician, journalist, and
host of the weekly show Warto Rozmawiac. Pospieszalski stated the
protests were coming too late, since approval for the concert had been
given six months ago. He added, “For me, mass culture which has to
support itself with transgressions, breaking taboos, is just too boring
and predictable.”

Polish
External Radio Service reported the remarks of two young persons,
Agnieszka and Mariusz, both under 30, who speculated that the pop-star
in engaging in a deliberate religious provocation to shore up a
flagging career.

“She's
just an old, pitiful lady, desperately looking for attention.
Artistically, she has nothing original to offer. She should really make
space for some young, talented artists,” said Agnieszka. “And if she's so brave and provocative, why doesn't she go to some Muslim country and try to offend their religion?”

Mariusz
added, “She made a career offending Christians and getting naked in
front of other people, which is easy when you are young. But over
decades, she hasn't come up with any new ideas. My advice to this
pathetic lady is: get out of our country, go back where you belong.”

Polish
Radio reports that various Catholic groups have launched protests and
are organizing a boycott against Madonna's Warsaw performance.

Patryk
Tryzubiak of Allegro.pl, a major auction website which sponsors the
concert, says the organizers are going to go ahead with their plans
anyway. “We should remember that the majority in Poland are Catholic,
but we will not resign because of some protests,” responded Tryzubiak.

Although a law exists in Poland against promoting blasphemy and
offending Christian symbols, in practice it is rarely enforced.
However, a boycott of advertisers supporting the Madonna concert is
underway.

Polish conservative organizer Anna Olasik, of TwojaSprawa.org.pl,
threw her support behind a boycott campaign, stating that those efforts
have worked in the United States and are beginning to gain traction in
Poland.

“When
we regained freedom twenty years ago, we took it for granted that the
traditional values we were used to – rights of families, family values
in general – would be protected and respected. But it turned out not to
be the case,” Olasik told Polish Radio. “I am very optimistic. I can
see that people are joining our association and they see that when we
act together, we can make a difference, we can still be the same Poland
we used to be during John Paul II's times.”