As a Catholic in the US, I am happy to live here under our flag. First, that is not a crucifix in the photo. A crucifix by definition has a corpus. It is four pillows in a cross shape. We may not like the cover but cancel it, no.

Most of us Catholics saw the black figure in Like a Prayer as St Martin De Porres and we saw the theme of the video of a falsely accused black man and Madonna freeing him inspired by a Christian sense of justice.

Yes, there was a faction of Catholics that read something sinister in the video, but they will always be there. Today, they are trying to ban the pope, while literally celebrating their ownership of firearms.