How Did This Happen? by Sean Fitzpatrick

By Sean Fitzpatrick, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 7, 2023

Sean Fitzpatrick is a senior contributor to Crisis and serves on the faculty of Gregory the Great Academy, a Catholic boarding school for boys in Pennsylvania.

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A sacrilegious music video filmed in a Catholic church raises many questions of how such a thing could have happened in the first place.

How such a thing could have ever happened is almost beyond comprehension. On Halloween, a music video dropped by the pop star Sabrina Carpenter, another Miley Cyrus in that she is also a Disney children’s entertainer turned hyper-sexualized singer. The video features Carpenter in various provocative states of dress (if you can call that “dressed”) being ogled by men, culminating in their violent, bloody deaths and her dancing and writhing and strutting in a skimpy outfit at their funerals in the sanctuary of a church—a Roman Catholic Church. To be precise, the video was filmed in the nineteenth-century Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lithuanian Church in Brooklyn, New York, leaving many asking, “How did this happen?” …

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