(LifeSiteNews) — A celebrity who regularly performs pornographically for reggaeton music videos will be singing at the upcoming Vatican concert “Grace for the World.”
Karol G, one of the most popular singers of reggaeton music, a lowbrow Latin genre known for hypersexual lyrics and videos, is slated to perform for the Vatican concert in St. Peter’s Square on September 13, a Colombian outlet reported.
“Grace for the World,” a celebratory closing of the third World Meeting on Human Fraternity, is being billed as a first of its kind concert “where icons and light unite humanity through music and hope.” The event will feature drone and light displays “inspired by the masterpieces of the Sistine Chapel,” according to the concert’s event page.
Andrea Bocelli and Pharrell Williams, a songwriter who has produced and performed a long list of sexually explicit songs, are headlining the concert lineup, which along with Karol G will include John Legend, Teddy Swims, Voices of Fire Gospel Choir, Clipse, Angélique Kidjo, Jelly Roll, and BamBam.
While several of the performers are controversial picks for a Vatican-hosted concert, Karol G’s public presentation is particularly at odds with Catholic, Christian ethics. Her performances and especially her music videos typically involve pornographic gestures and dress, which tend to be especially pronounced in her genre. Even in appearances on popular shows like The Tonight Show, she is so scantily clad that she is virtually half-nude.
Pharrell rivals Karol G as an unbecoming choice for a Vatican concert headliner. He has produced, written and performed a great deal of sexually provocative and otherwise immoral music.
The World Meeting on Human Fraternity is organized by the Basilica of St. Peter, the Fratelli Tutti Foundation — born out of Pope Francis’ 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti — and the Be Human Association under the patronage of the Vatican Dicastery for Evangelization. An overview of this year’s meeting events can be found at the Fratelli Tutti Foundation website.
The inaugural World Meeting on Human Fraternity was held in 2023 under Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Basilica. At the time, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, representing the Pope, joined 30 Nobel Peace Prize laureates in signing the “Declaration of Human Fraternity,” which drew from Fratelli Tutti and also avoided any mention of Christ, God, or Catholicism.
Rather than promoting religion as the solution to any of the numerous global crises referenced in the document, the 2023 text posited man as the answer to such problems: “Our children, our future can only thrive in a world of peace, justice and equality, to the benefit of the single human family: only fraternity can generate humanity.”
Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’ encyclical “on fraternity and human friendship,” is widely argued to promote religious indifferentism, and was condemned by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio to the U.S., as promoting a “blasphemous” form of brotherhood without God as well as “religious indifferentism.”
In fact, “fraternity” has been celebrated as a core value of freemasonry, which has been repeatedly, formally condemned by popes as antithetical to the teaching of the Catholic Church. Fratelli Tutti’s publication was welcomed by the Masonic Lodge of Spain, which stated that Francis “embraces the Universal Fraternity, the great principle of Modern Freemasonry.”
“Pope Francis’ last encyclical shows how far the current Catholic Church is from its former positions,” the lodge wrote.
