The new editor at L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s official newspaper, is giving us much amusement down at Tone Deaf HQ. Only a month or two after an article in which they praised a list of 10 less than pious rock n’ roll bands and artists, they’ve now come out forgiving The Beatles for their ‘satanic’ messages and that little passing comment by John Lennon about The Beatles being ‘bigger than Jesus.’ There’s not a hint of them expecting Ringo and Paul to say four Hail Marys and two Our Fathers.
In a front page article, The Holy See’s budgie cage liner has lavished praise on The Beatles, tripping over their sacred robes to admit that the band had indeed once ‘said they were bigger than Jesus and put out mysterious messages, that were possibly even Satanic’, but also then asks decades after everyone else: ‘what would pop music have been like without the Beatles?’
Helpfully for the Catholic Church, the article comes at a time when it is under siege over yet more priests being accused of kiddy fiddling and institutional cover ups of the offences and any amusing diversion like this is helpful. It does beg the question, however, just how much of the communion wine is the new editor swigging away on in his office?
See some of the reaction to John Lennon’s statement in 1966
