(refiling to correct surname, 3rd graf).
Madonna has 'liked' on Facebook
Italian singing nun Suor Cristina's cover of her first smash
hit, Like A Virgin.
"Like A Virgin? #bitinghard", said the pop legend on her
FB profile, adding Sisters for Life! #Touchedfortheveryfirsttime
and posting two montage pictures of herself with the winner of
Italy's The Voice competition.
Suor Cristina - or Sister Cristina Scuccia - chose the
Madonna classic to help launch her debut album.
She said the sexy song, famously deconstructed in Quentin
Tarabntino's Reservoir Dogs, was "more of a secular prayer than
a pop song".
But the choice has not gone down well with Italian
bishops.
An editorial by the Italian Bishops' News Agency SIR
called it 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.
It said the singing nun's claim it was a sort of prayer
was a "blessedly naive" comment.
Suor Cristina signed a contract with Universal for an
album due out in November.
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