Let me endeavor to point out once again (albeit more obliquely) that her professed admiration for a homosexual icon who shall remain unnamed, her feminist idealogy which extends to public support for a revolting Russian feminist group which desecrated a chiurch and shall also remain unnamed, and her anti-religious stance qualify her as a fellow-traveler with the anti-family (and thus anti-Catholic) “progressive” cabal which is behind the destruction of western society and of Christendom. As such, she is a bizarre choice for a concert intended to honor the birth of Christ.
Where is the logic in believing that someone with her views and reputation would be an aid to evangelization? The impression this creates is that the ideas she promotes are now considered acceptable by the Catholic Church. That will be the takeaway for the vast majority of those who are even aware of her Vatican performance.
Your latest contains an excellent example of guilt by rather remote association.
FEMEN--- a truly vile and sacrilegious group --- has claimed that Patti Smith's music influenced them. Of course: Patti Smith has been releasing albums and traveling the concert circuit since 1975. In 45 years you can influence tens of millions of people, without thereby becoming co-responsible for their acts. Neither does an album you released in 1975 make you responsible for the delirium of Pussy Riot/FEMEN in 2011-2014.
Patti Smith at St. Peters' Square
Patti Smith singing 'O Holy Night' 2013
FEMEN goes to church
(I had to search high and low for a pic that wasn't too obscene to put on Free Republic)
So the rhetorical stunt of claiming "FEMEN equals Patti Smith" or "FEMEN is like/similar to/tied to/congruent with/allied with/joined at the hip with Patti Smith" or "We can always trash Patti Smith by associating her with FEMEN"...
Shows an unjust judgment.