Beatles Praised by Vatican Paper Despite 'Bigger Than Jesus' Comment

This proves to Me just how far the Vatican is behind on reality.After all How long ago were the Beatles in the news? We will find out in another 10 years that the Demon in the Exorcist will be forgiven for treating everyone else so mean. Yes slap him on the wrists like they do all the pedophile priests. They will say they were all forgiven because they helped us by being Boy Scout Leaders while they were doing their vicious crimes.

"my sweet lord" was george harrison post beatles.

This is pretty fast for the Catholic Church to react to something. Remember, it took them 400 years to admit that Galileo was right when he said that the earth revolved around the sun.

John was wrong of course. John is dead, the Catholic Church will last till the end of time. Jesus said to his Church," I am with you always, even to the end of the world". The smoke of satin has entered into some members of the church, but not the main body.

At The Time John Was To Have Said That Remark That, The Beatles Where Bigger Than Jesus Was Taken Out Of Text. He Was Talking To A Female Reporter For The Daily Mirror News Paper In England. And What He Was Trying To Say In His Way Of Speaking, Was He Thought That It Was Ironic That More Teenages, Where More Listening To The Beatles, And Going To Beatles Concerts, Than Going To Church. He Did Not Mean Any Harm, Because He And His Mates Could not Understand Their Fame At The Time.

To Larry Caldwell--
Halleluja!

All priest are not pesdophiles it is not right to damn a whole group of people for the sins of others. Hundreds of priest died opposing the Hitler and helping jews and others escape concentration camps through a sort ofd underground railroad putting the lives of priest nuns and lay people in jeopardy. In the shadow of the Vatican a courageous priest helped Jews get out of the country, Priest and nuns have died all over the world trying to help the poor and the oppressed. Yes the Vatican is guilty of many things and needas to apologize and change many of their policies but that is out of the hands of the average Catholic. Their are bad apples in every group teachers, preaxchers, politicians, policemen, lawyers, judges, etc. But that does not make them all bad. You may not believe in God or Jesus but someone once said there are no atheist on their death bed. One of historys greatest atheist a philosopher by the name of Voltair asked for a priest when he was dying. We have a messed up world and it is going to take all of us to bring change. Look at who your children idolize and consider heroes it just may frighten you. We can all cast blame and poin t figures but are we willing to jump in and try to do something positive. I taught for thirty years trying to yteach children to be good responsible citizens and sometimes I felt as if the whole society was working against me. Yes the churches and not just the Catholic church have not always done the work of God but so many of his people have not either. We get upset about an article write a few words and go back to our selfish ways. We need to ask ourselves " am I my bothers keeper". Many clerymen and others have answered yes and set out to do something about it. It is easy to point a figure it is harder to join the ranks of those who try to make even the smallest difference.

May God Bless You All
( And yes I am a converted Catholic who often disagress with the policies of our leaders but not the church as a Whole)

Everyone just shut up!! any glimpse of attention towards this is all they need just sock it unless your a religious fiend

Maybe the Vatican should have been less concerned about the Beatles and more concerned about their priests going after altar boys....

For those of you who never read Lennon's quote:

"Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

And his explanation-by-way-of-apologizing:

"I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."

And a great later quote:

"I don’t need to go to church. I respect churches because of the sacredness that’s been put on them over the years by people who do believe. But I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church, and as Donovan once said, ‘I go to my own church in my own temple once a day.’ And I think people who need a church should go. And the others who know the church is in your own head should visit that temple because that’s where the source is. We’re all God. Christ said, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.’ And the Indians say that and the Zen people say that. We’re all God. I’m not a god or the God, but we’re all God and we’re all potentially divine—and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you’ll see it."