At a time when they surely have bigger things to think about, the Vatican's official newspaper has published a glowing appraisal of the Beatles, calling their music "beautiful" and dismissing their years of drug use and excessive living.
On the front page of the L'Osservatore Romano, the paper admits that the band once "said they were bigger than Jesus and put out mysterious messages, that were possibly even Satanic", but also asks: "what would pop music have been like without the Beatles?"
The article comes four decades after John Lennon enraged the Catholic church by saying the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" and suggesting that Christianity was a dying institution.
The timing of its latest effusive piece on the Beatles coincides with mounting focus on the Vatican's response to claims of institutional sexual abuse within the Catholic church. The latest edition of L'Osservatore Romano acknowledged the controversy by saying there was international "support for the Pope".
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Don't these creeps, have more important things to be doing?
That's why it makes sense to try to make headlines in other issues occasionally.
My understanding is that The Beatles haven't forgiven the Vatican for all the child sexual abuse they are guilty of...
Those B***s are at it again: First they try to ignore the problem and they try to silence the whole thing into oblivion (Shhhhh- Let's all be silent about it, move some maldoing priest away to another office and it will blow over soon enough). And now they come up with other diversion-tactics to try to distract from the main issue... Hey aside from that horrible thing--- We admit were Wrong back then- We now declare that those Beatles are Good...!
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