Lennon forgiven
Monday, November 24, 2008
By Megan Sweas
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It took Galileo nearly 400 years to get back into good standing with the Catholic Church. John Lennon should be thankful it only took him about 4 decades.
Lennon's famous remark about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus didn't sit too well with some Christians, though it didn't stop their popularity. Forty-two years after Lennon made the comment (1966), the Vatican got the joke, as L'Osservatore Romano called the comment in an article praising the Beatles.
It was only "showing off, bragging by a young English working-class musician who had grown up in the age of Elvis Presley and rock and roll and had enjoyed unexpected success," the papal newspaper says, according to Ekklesia.
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By KevinM (not verified) on Friday, December 26, 2008This was a ridiculous comment by the Church, who apparently never understood the Lennon comment in the first place, and are still bearing a meaningless grudge four decades later. It only serves to show how self-absorbed and out of touch they are sometimes.
To someone's credit, the Vatican put out a Beatles appreciation story about a month after this comment.
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