Twenty eight years after his murder, the Vatican has "forgiven" Beatle John Lennon's offhand comment in 1966 that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." Such a Christian attitude, albeit so many years late. As the Church Lady would say, "well, isn't that special."
As Lennon explained numerous times, he didn't mean it in a boastful way, but as an ironic commentary that the pop music culture was rivaling religion among young people in popularity.
Perhaps less focus on dead rock stars and more focus on rooting out pedophile priests would be in order.
