Sister Cristina Scucci, who won
Italy's televised singing talent contest The Voice earlier this
year, was criticized on Wednesday in an editorial by the Italian
Bishops' News Agency SIR for her choice to cover Madonna's Like
a Virgin.
The news agency called her choice a "reckless and calculated
commercial operation".
"The public is always intrigued by the devil versus holy
water theme, but not even the American nuns in Sister Act would
have thought of something like this," the editorial said.
Sister Cristina signed a contract with Universal for an
album due out in November, and called the remake, which is one
of the singles on the forthcoming album, "a secular prayer", a
comment the news agency dubbed "blessedly naive".
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