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Madonna Like A Nun?
It looks like Madonna might have to justify her costume.
The Material Mother of two and former Catholic-turned-Kabbalah devotee is being taken to task by conservative Catholics angered that she and her director-hubby, Guy Ritchie, showed up at a bash celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim dressed as a nun and pope respectively.
William Donahue, president of the Catholic League, verbally crucified the pair, arguing that their appearance at London's Kabbalah Center Purim Party, drinking and dancing in clerical attire, was offensive coming on Holy Thursday, three days before Christianity's most revered holiday, Easter.
"They're trying to tweak Catholicism again by exploiting the Jewish holiday," Donahue told E! Online of the couple's appearance. "She needs to be beaten with a ruler by a real-life nun and he needs to paddled on his behind by a real-life priest. That would please the Catholic League."
The Catholic leader was none too pleased to see Madonna, 46, decked out in a nun's frock and wearing crucifixes for the festive occasion that commemorates the biblical exploits of Queen Esther who saved the Jewish people from certain destruction at the hands of the Persian king while in exile.
But Donahue reserved the most ire for Ritchie--who was garbed in a gold-trimmed white ecclesiastical robe and matching skullcap--calling him "morally depraved."
"Certainly my Jewish friends are not going to be endorsing somebody who rips off their religion to make an untoward statement against somebody else's religion," he said. "Madonna's such a buffoon that we come to expect it and her husband is a jackass."
Donahue also noted that Ritchie's outfit was poorly timed, given Pope John Paul II's feeble health and the fact that he's been hospitalized twice in recent days.
"It's particularly vulgar to [dress up like that] at a time when the pope is failing at his health," he added.
Donahue suggested the couple "move to the Muslim camp" and see what happens when they get a Fatwa.
However, the "Like A Virgin" singer's rep, Liz Rosenberg, dismissed the furor as much ado about nothing and said the get-ups were simply part of the Purim tradition in which revelers don costumes.
"No disrespect was intended," Rosenberg told the New York Daily News. "Madonna dreamed of becoming a nun when she was a little girl. She said, 'Finally, I'll make my father proud!'"
This obviously isn't the first time Madonna has incurred the wrath of the Religious Right.
In 1989, the video for her hit "Like a Prayer" sparked major controversy when it showed the entertainer wearing a crucifix and dancing in front of several burning crosses. The uproar from religious types and threats of a boycott prompted Pepsi to pull out from sponsoring her world tour that year.
"Sister" Madonna has since bid goodbye to Catholicism and threw herself into studying Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. And in an ironic twist, she also adopted the ancient Hebrew name of Esther in her religious studies.
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