Priest Punished for Allowing Music Video in Church (Video)

On Halloween, the pop star Sabrina Carpenter uploaded a music video to YouTube for her new song “Feather.” That was a Tuesday. By the end of the week, a Catholic priest had been stripped of his administrative duties because of it.

In the video, Ms. Carpenter, 24, a former Disney child star with more than 31 million followers on Instagram, dances through Our Lady of Mount Carmel-Annunciation Parish, a Catholic church in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Dressed in a short black tulle dress and veil, she makes her way up the center aisle, onto the altar, which is lined with pastel-colored coffins, and then back down the aisle and out the front door. In another scene, she appears to be splattered with blood after a fight scene in a gym. In another, two young men are reading a book called “Tampons Should Be Free.”

The video has been viewed more than 9.7 million times, and led to an outcry on social media.

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The Diocese of Brooklyn denounced the video in a statement to the Catholic News Agency, saying it was “appalled at what was filmed.”

The church’s pastor, Msgr. Jamie J. Gigantiello, gave Ms. Carpenter’s team permission for the filming, but the diocese said that he had not followed “diocesan policy regarding the filming on Church property, which includes a review of the scenes and script.” The story was first reported by Mark Irons, a reporter at the Catholic news outlet EWTN, on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.

In response to the video, Bishop Robert J. Brennan celebrated a Mass of Reparation, which the diocese said “restored the sanctity of this church and repaired the harm.”

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