Vatican on rapper's mock baptism: 'They don't make provocateurs like they used to'
Italian musician Achille Lauro ends his performance of “Domenica” by pouring water on himself with a baptismal shell in Sanremo, Italy. Video screen grab
(RNS) — The Vatican’s response to an Italian rapper’s mock baptism on stage suggests the church hierarchy is coming to terms with artists’ flouting of Catholic imagery.
