Vatican Forgives the Beatles!
John Lennon must be enjoying a huge laugh from his grave today as the Vatican has announced in a newsletter that it has forgiven him and the lads for those comments Lennon made in 1966. Trying to make the point that people had their priorities screwed up, he said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, which caused a huge outcry among conservative Christians and apparently the Vatican too. Former fans in the southern USA made piles of their Beatles records and burned them, vowing to never listen to the infidels again.
While that controversy eventually died down, and we all moved on, it looks like the Vatican didn't. Until now, that is. Funny how, in the middle of what just might be the biggest and most fractious issue faced by the Mother Church in its entire history, their higher-ups found the time to forgive poor old long dead John Lennon.
What to make of it all? Surely they can't think this will distract us from the Church's abuse crisis, but what other reason would there be for making this announcement now? As a non-Catholic, maybe I just don't understand how things work. All I am sure of is that John is chuckling down at us now from whatever version of heaven he imagined for himself.
4 comments:
They should consider themselves lucky. It took the Vatican about 400 years to forgive Galileo.
Gotta thank Deb for this posting of reaction airy times. We should consider ourselves lucky that John hadn't declared The Beatles more popular than Mohammed. Unlike the extremist Christians who "caused a huge outcry", we witnessed the contrived outrage of murderous gangs of Muslims burning down embassies, issuing lethal fatwas, etc. When does Salman Rushdie get an apology? Or Canadian citizens, Irshad Manji or Tarek Fatah?
Ah yes,it reminds me of the melodic line " ...in the fullness of time, Minister....". The Church maintains a glacial patience.
Wings is still not off the hook.
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