[NYer]

The song “Live to Tell,” in which Madonna is “crucified,” “is one of the best sermons I have witnessed in my life,” and he challenged Catholics to follow the example of the singer.

Holy moly!

[Hegemony Cricket]

Yes. And “Like a Virgin” is really promoting chastity, too!

[Dixie Yooper]

Father Carlos Novoa, SJ, ex-dean of the Department of Theology at the Javeriana University wants to have sex with Madonna.

[siunevada]

a “creative and moving” work of art.

There's must be a translation problem. He probably meant to say "derivative and puerile".

[Rutles4Ever]

Yeah, and if you squint your eyes and look at a swastika from a distance, it might look like a cross. What the hell is wrong with these people?

[Always Right]

OK, I read the lyrics but fail to see the greatest sermon ever.  Maybe someone can enlighten me.

 

Live To Tell Lyrics
Artist(Band):Madonna

I have a tale to tell
Sometimes it gets so hard to hide it well
I was not ready for the fall
Too blind to see the writing on the wall

Chorus:

A man can tell a thousand lies
I've learned my lesson well
Hope I live to tell
The secret I have learned, 'till then
It will burn inside of me

I know where beauty lives
I've seen it once, I know the warm she gives
The light that you could never see
It shines inside, you can't take that from me

(chorus)

2nd Chorus:

The truth is never far behind
You kept it hidden well
If I live to tell
The secret I knew then
Will I ever have the chance again

If I ran away, I'd never have the strength
To go very far
How would they hear the beating of my heart
Will it grow cold
The secret that I hide, will I grow old
How will they hear
When will they learn
How will they know

(chorus)
(2nd chorus)
 

[rogator]

Fifty years ago the Jesuits were intellectual giants, although a bit arrogant from time to time.
What happened to them?

[marsh_of_mists]

Oh man, this sort of thing just makes me want to crawl up into a fetal position and weep.

[Gerish]

"In this postmodern, skeptic world in which so many people abhor or are simply uninterested in the faith, will ministers of the Church and Catholics in general have this audacity and this creativity to communicate a Jesus who truly shakes people up on the inside?” Novoa wondered.

What a complete idiot. Meditating on the Word of the Lord is all you need to "shake people up on the inside." Running around on a stage with your cloths half-off, with the singing voice of jackel for a cheap thrill will certainly lead no one to Jesus.

[marshmallow]

Well whaddya know?!

A Jesuit groupie! Over 10 years of priestly formation and this is what you get.

The impressive riches of Jesuit academia evident for all to see.

[thegreatbeast]

Reminds me of the priest who called for the “snuff(ing)” of the gun shop owner “rat”. From Chi-town, I think.

[ears_to_hear]

This is a sign of desperation .

[Coleus]

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[Cicero]

I guess the Jesuit order is sick in Columbia, too.