Posts Tagged ‘Lady Gaga’

The provocative faith of Lady Gaga

Friday, February 10th, 2017

Today’s Super Bowl halftime show will undoubtedly be a provocative spectacle, but it will also be a form of religious devotion for some. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta will step on the world’s biggest stage as Lady Gaga, the Catholic schoolgirl turned chart-topper. Along with the electropop and theatricality, she will deliver an overt, yet often Read more

Lady Gaga and the online Eucharist police

Friday, May 27th, 2016

I used to be a third-grade teacher and a few times I was actually privileged to watch the instant when a child learned how to read. Choppy, foreign sounds would clatter out of the child’s mouth until suddenly something would click in his mind and heart and an actual word would effortlessly issue from his Read more

Lady Gaga takes Catholic blog to task over celebrity faith

Friday, May 13th, 2016

Singer Lady Gaga has taken issue with a Catholic blog that posed questions about celebrities sharing their faith in public. Catholic Link editor Becky Roach recently posted an item titled “From Lady Gaga to Steph Curry: 5 Things to Remember when Celebrities Share Their Faith.” This came after Gaga has recently posted online two pictures Read more

Pope Francis on the Cover of Rolling Stone – OK?

Friday, February 7th, 2014

One of the reason why you should not be too pleased about the Pope being on the cover of Rolling Stone is the last person to be called “Super Catholic” in the pages of Rolling Stone was Lady GaGa. It’s not 1978. Look, at one point Rolling Stone was a huge cover which granted the Read more

Lady Gaga Gets the Indonesian Boot

Monday, June 4th, 2012

News of the cancellation of the Lady Gaga concert scheduled for early June in Jakarta, Indonesia is receiving a lullingly uniform spin in the American and international media. It is, we are told, a morality play about the triumph of radical Islamism over artistic freedom, and a disturbing omen of Indonesia’s supposed slide into religious Read more

Islamist hardliners cause Lady Gaga to cancel Indonesian Show

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Lady Gaga has cancelled her sold-out show in Indonesia after Islamist hard-liners threatened violence, claiming her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt the nation’s youth. The controversy was a blow to the predominantly Muslim country’s reputation for combining free speech and democracy with a mostly moderate brand of the faith. Continue reading

Gaga’s ‘Judas’ stunt boring

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Lady Gaga’s new single ‘Judas’ is a boring and mundane stunt according to Bill Donoghue, President of the US Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. “This is a stunt … Lady Gaga tries to continue to shock Catholics and Christians in general: she dresses as a nun … she swallows the rosary. She has now Read more

Lady Gaga’s “Judas’ spirituality” confuses

Friday, April 8th, 2011

“Judas,” the second single from Lady Gaga’s new album, “Born this Way” speaks about her love relationship with Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus with a kiss and afterwards killed himself. Gaga, who leaked some of the lyrics of the single via Twitter, talks about always “falling in love with the wrong man over and Read more