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Published Date: 24 November 2008
WERE The Beatles anti-religious? On the side of the angels? Or somewhere in between? Big questions need time for deliberation. Thus, 42 years after John Lennon outraged Christians by claiming that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, the Vatican's official newspaper has pronounced in a long editorial that it was ... a youthful joke.
It would be wrong to seize on this as the Vatican's last word on the matter. It may be best regarded at this stage as an interim and tentative conclusion. After all, editorials in L'Osservatore Romano are meant to last longer than the three minutes o...



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  • Last Updated: 23 November 2008 8:39 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
 

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