Vatican forgives John Lennon

Michael Balter 11/23/2008 09:32:00 AM Culture
Reuters is reporting that the Vatican has forgiven Lennon for saying that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" back in 1966.

This is just more evidence that the Catholic Church is way behind the times. Jesus forgave John Lennon a long time ago.
Michael Balter

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Anonymous said…
Right after chewing him out for being a lousy father to Julian.

But yeah, Catholics are in some other time zone. I should know, I'm one of 'em.
November 23, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Anne Gilbert said…
Well, it's nice that the Vatican forgave John Lennon for his statement. I remember the outrage it provoked at the time, but a lot of htat was taken out of context(it was actually a comment about the seeming irrelevance of religious faith and tradition). So if somebody is "in another time zone", it's the Vatican and its Vaticanoids, not "Catholics" in general,necessarily.
Anne G
November 23, 2008 at 4:57 PM
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