Singer Sabrina Carpenter's music video spurs outrage for using church as setting

Sabrina Carpenter's use of a Roman Catholic church in Brooklyn as a backdrop for parts of a music video led to a pastor being stripped of his administrative duties after its release and officials holding a Mass to restore the church's 'sanctity'. Photo: AP

Pop singer Sabrina Carpenter's use of a Roman Catholic church in Brooklyn as a backdrop for parts of a music video, with her dancing next to pastel-coloured coffins, led to its pastor being stripped of his administrative duties after its release and officials holding a Mass to restore the church's "sanctity.”

Carpenter, who as a youth appeared on the Disney Channel, released the video for Feather on Oct. 31; in it, she's in several scenarios with men who behave badly, like taking a nonconsensual photo of her body, and then die in grisly ways. At the end, Carpenter, 24, is filmed dancing in the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, wearing a short tulle dress and a black veil.