I think I'll have a good 10 entries and maybe more if memory serves me.

1/2 Italian, with extended family living in Italy, Madonna had an affinity for Italy, and Italians loved her, with the exception of the Catholic Church.

I'll start with my favorite Madonna speech. My personal name for it is- "The Vatican Speech". I've always called it that. I made up the name.

It hits me harder now than it did even when she gave it.

To think- there was a time when these words she spoke about the US and the right to freedom of speech enshrined in the Constitution could be expressed so brilliantly and without irony.

This was a brave speech for her to give at the time given how many people did not understand her work let alone the fact that she went to the source to give it.