{"id":543146,"date":"2010-04-26T05:31:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T09:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=102099"},"modified":"2010-04-26T05:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T09:31:29","slug":"susan-boyle-to-sing-for-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543146","title":{"rendered":"Susan Boyle To Sing For The Pope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Catholic Church wants Scottish spinster-turned-singing sensation Susan Boyle to perform for Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Britain later this year, a spokesman for the church told <em>The Herald Sun<\/em> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pope-Benedict-Susan-Boyle-Performance.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pope Benedict Susan Boyle Performance\" width=\"230\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-102112\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/susan-boyle-harpers-bazaar-magazine.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"susan-boyle-harpers-bazaar-magazine\" width=\"240\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-66498\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-102099\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the church&#8217;s Scottish diocese said that a meeting is likely to be held to discuss a performance by the 49-year-old singer.<\/p>\n<p>Boyle was catapulted to global stardom after belting out the theme to Les Miserables as a contestant on the UK TV talent show Britain&#8217;s Got Talent in 2009. Her first album, <em> I Dreamed A Dream<\/em>, was the best-selling debut in British chart history and also topped the Billboard charts in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The rep added that Boyle would be a \u2018great asset&#8221; for the events planned for The Pontiffs visit.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe certainly would be a great asset to the program on the day and we hope to be able to discuss the possibility of her participation soon&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict will be in Britain Sept. 16-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YAt08Yv-D3k_vhroVm3FGm2q8Ko\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YAt08Yv-D3k_vhroVm3FGm2q8Ko\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YAt08Yv-D3k_vhroVm3FGm2q8Ko\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YAt08Yv-D3k_vhroVm3FGm2q8Ko\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Catholic Church wants Scottish spinster-turned-singing sensation Susan Boyle to perform for Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Britain later this year, a spokesman for the church told The Herald Sun on Sunday. A spokesperson for the church&#8217;s Scottish diocese said that a meeting is likely to be held to discuss a performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}