Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League took to the group's website to comment on the star's video trailer for "Family Feud", which opened with Jay-Z walking into a church, hand-in-hand with his daughter Blue Ivy.
He raps 'Nobody wins when the family feuds' before his wife Beyonce, dressed in a Russian Orthodox inspired outfit, stands at the pulpit before hearing her husband of nearly nine years' confession.
While Donohue said the 30-second teaser video wasn't anti-Catholic, he was less than impressed by the message.
Describing the scene he said: "...a flashback scene where he [Jay-Z] is shown kissing a gal in her undergarments... then Beyoncé appears, standing at the pulpit, wearing a navy blue outfit dressed like a queen...she is a priestess.
"Is it anti-Catholic? No, it is not a bigoted assault. Indeed, it pales next to Jay-Z's relentlessly racist (and anti-black) lyrics.
"But it is nonetheless gratuitous as well as exploitative, just the kind of thing we would expect from this genius couple."
The nearly 8-minute long full-length video, which was released exclusively on the '99 Problems' streaming service Tidal was directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay and also features actors Michael B. Jordan and Thandie Newton.
