An American priest has been removed from his ministry after allowing a provocative and bloody music video by a popular American singer to be filmed at his church in Brooklyn, New York.
“Rest in peace, bitch,” reads one of the pastel coffins placed in Our Lady of Mount Carmel-Annunciation Church in the opening seconds of the video by singer and Disney actress Sabrina Carpenter. “The Telegraph” reported on Sunday.
“Scandalized”, the diocese of Brooklyn did not hold back by dismissing Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, ordained in 1995, from his functions, after the American priest allowed the starlet to frolic in his church for her very last video musical, which reached more than 11 million views in three weeks, according to the British newspaper.
In the images, we can see the singer, dressed in a very short black tulle dress, in false mourning after witnessing the bloody and exaggerated deaths of several suitors with questionable behavior.
But if the priest apologized, indicating that he had accepted the filming “in an effort to further strengthen the bond” between the church and the young artists, his superiors considered it inexcusable that he had not followed the policies of the diocese for filming in churches, including “a review of scenes and script,” the organization wrote in a statement.
“I agreed to the filming after a general search for the artist involved revealed nothing questionable (…) The parish employees and I did not know that provocative gestures were occurring in the church », added the priest, who was also not on site during the filming.
Following the alleged desecration, a “reparation” ceremony was carried out by Bishop Robert Brennan at the scene, the British media outlet reported.
The compensation of US$5,000 given to the church for the filming was given to a crisis pregnancy center in New York, so that through this “negative event the promotion of the life,” according to “The Telegraph.”
