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"Madonna is an anti-icon of the Virgin Mary, she has proven it many times by mocking the Catholic faith," he said.
Madonna's concert coincides with the feast of the Assumption, a day when the faithful believe the mother of Jesus was to have gone to heaven, which is widely celebrated by Poles who are mostly Catholic.
It also falls on the day Poles mark their 1920 victory over Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet war, known as the Miracle on the Vistula.
"Delaying her concert for one day or switching it with the August 13 date in Prague, that certainly shouldn't pose a problem," Brudzynski said.
His committee has asked Warsaw city hall to cancel the singer's "scandalous concert" on the day held sacred by Catholics. He also sent a letter requesting Poland's President Lech Kaczynski intervene.
However, neither Poland's Catholic Church, nor right-wing political parties or even the ultra-conservative Catholic Radio Maryja broadcaster, has endorsed Brudzynski's opinion.
But Lech Walesa, Poland's Solidarity-era legend and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has criticised Madonna's choice of day for her concert.
"On this day, this great feast day for the religion of Polish people, there shouldn't be any kind of confrontations," Walesa said recently.
"I don't want anyone to interfere with my prayer on this day. I quite like Madonna as a singer, but on this day I want to be able to reflect, to pray," he said.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the international pop star who will celebrate her 51st birthday on August 16, wants to show her four children the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz located in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim.
Asked by AFP, Auschwitz museum officials said they "were not aware of this project" and advised against children visiting the Holocaust site.
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Madonna's concert coincides with the feast of the Assumption, a day when the faithful believe the mother of Jesus was to have gone to heaven, which is widely celebrated by Poles who are mostly Catholic.
It also falls on the day Poles mark their 1920 victory over Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet war, known as the Miracle on the Vistula.
"Delaying her concert for one day or switching it with the August 13 date in Prague, that certainly shouldn't pose a problem," Brudzynski said.
His committee has asked Warsaw city hall to cancel the singer's "scandalous concert" on the day held sacred by Catholics. He also sent a letter requesting Poland's President Lech Kaczynski intervene.
However, neither Poland's Catholic Church, nor right-wing political parties or even the ultra-conservative Catholic Radio Maryja broadcaster, has endorsed Brudzynski's opinion.
But Lech Walesa, Poland's Solidarity-era legend and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has criticised Madonna's choice of day for her concert.
"On this day, this great feast day for the religion of Polish people, there shouldn't be any kind of confrontations," Walesa said recently.
"I don't want anyone to interfere with my prayer on this day. I quite like Madonna as a singer, but on this day I want to be able to reflect, to pray," he said.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the international pop star who will celebrate her 51st birthday on August 16, wants to show her four children the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz located in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim.
Asked by AFP, Auschwitz museum officials said they "were not aware of this project" and advised against children visiting the Holocaust site.
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