Vatican forgives John Lennon

What I noticed: FOUR DECADES?! The chain of events here went something like this, he said it, people got upset, people got over it, people forgot it, he died, people were sad, people got over it, he's forgiven by Pope. >_>'

i'm sure if john lennon was alive, he would have more important things to worry about, than what the pope thinks of him. aren't we suppost to seek forgiveness from our god, not some guy in a dress?

Really? To my knowledge, and within the context of the statement in question being so clear, other than the fact that I can't seem to sleep at the moment, this is such a non-issue, it deserves its own category. Perhaps Mr. Lennon is the Vaticans contemporary lazarus brought back from the dead so as to demonstrate just how much forgiveness can be resurected after forty years of contemplative reflection. Does this really mean anything at all, and why now?

I'm still not forgiving the ROMAN catholic church for subverting & perverting the teachings of a certain JEWISH Rabbi of 2 millenia past...

Tell the Pope to sell all the jewels, live in a humble house like Mother Teresa, get rid of all the servants, give away his "more money than God", and then we can take what he says seriously.

ok...

the catholic church and the pope is an archaic institution, who's only purpose is to control the population and get rich. Religion is a DELUSION!! Church should be tax just like any other business.

JOHN LENNON IS PEACE!! IMAGINE WHEN THE POPE HAD AN ARMY....SCARY!!!

forgive him for what exactly? did he do something wrong?

All we are saying, is give peace a chance.

John Lennon never once needed forgiveness from the catholics....nor does he need it now.
He lived an uncompromising life with fantastic ideals...
I have more respect for John than any pope!

just remember this. some people think music is religion so to alot of people music is god, for few possibly artists like the beatles

Better late than never!

another pathetic attempt to stay relevant

Well I'm sure that John will rest in eternal peace, now that one of the most oppressive organisations in the world likes him, really likes him! What a bunch of gits!

Ugh, the Vatican. Global headquarters of corruption and all things wrong with religion

Who cares? The Catholic Church is not ruling the world like it thinks. I do not listen to the Pope.

The Pope also had a meeting with Muslim scholars the day before the elections. Great transition in religion that I'm seeing here. Glad to see religions coming together for common ground.

And here I was taught judgment was reserved to GOD and GOD alone. It is just this sort of thing that has me backing away from organized religion and their doctrine.

Turn the other cheek. Forgive everyone by default.

How many years did it take for them to follow those simple tenants...?

Nice to hear in any case, though.

John Lennon needs no forgiveness. The catholic church is a foul, corrupt body led by a former member of the HItler Youth. Lennon would mock such forgiveness. As for god - god is a concept by which we measure our pain.

christianity and catholicism are two different things.

Dear Pope in ivory tower - Thanks for pointing out the obvious 40 years later when an innocent comment was taken out of context by bible thumpers several months after the actual interview. It's no wonder The Beatles never toured again after this debacle resulted in death threats & exactly the bullshit that took the fun out of it, while your sick priests were busy molesting children & then hiding behind any story that challenged the almighty church.

Putting 40+ years in perspective for you, The Beatles ARE more popular than Jesus as their popularity continues to grow with each new generation, selling more albums than you have sheep in your flock, while bringing more people across the world together with their simple message of peace & love after only 8 short years of recording some wonderful music together.

But I guess you'd be out of the salvation selling business if you stopped preaching that your god is the only one or the best one, continuing to divide people further by demanding blind faith - & money - for over 2000 years, if you haven’t closed their church, sold off the assets & kept the proceeds. Remember, ”Religion is but one tree with many branches” ~ Mahatma Gandhi.

Under the churches ideals, Lennon should have been canonized for ushering in an era of free unprotected sex. On a side note, you also you gotta love the churches new version of Entertainment Tonight. I wonder if this vicious media source would grill Palin.

Gotta admit they are improving since it took them 400 years to forgive Galileo and only 30 to forgive John Lennon

Well John Lennon doesn't forgive the Vatican! So Uuuunnn!

"Lennon told a British newspaper in 1966 - at the height of Beatlemania - that he did not know which would die out first, Christianity or rock and roll."

Well now we know - Christianity will.

The way I look at the Vatican & Co', is they're just a cult of schitzo's, wearing dresses like a Molly, playing at being the middleman, or rather, Whore of Babylon, Hekah in a white virgin's dress between man and his conscience, doing deal's with every corrupted organisation that can afford a couple of nuke's or a hit man, and has a relatively large public database so that they can keep whitewashing their record's like they've been doing for the past 700 year's, invest publically dontated fund's into scientific research because they havn't got any Natural Faith of their own and have to use Science to fake it just like NASA, they've been involved in murder, rape, abuse's you wouldn't even have the gut's to swallow, are involved in missing children all over the world, and come only second to China in that league of abuse's, and yet no one's got the bollock's to put them in the severe psychiatric ward for Muchausen by Proxy, have such a severe case of a cracked up Psychotic impaired psyche, that all their religion just come's down to at the end of the day is Posession, and that's not religion to me, unless it's posession of your own Soul, because you can't steal anyone else's unless your physically dead yourself, so wtf is the Vatican doing operating their Schitzo psychotic dysfunctional super dick-id's operating in Public for anyway? Because they certainly don't have the intelligence to know their own conscience's, let alone everyone else's, and don't we shoot rabid dog's that bit children in an adult intelligent society anyway!

How many people here can associate themselve's with this much Vatican hipocritcrasy, because look what happend's every time the pot call's the kettle black!

Forgiven for saying the truth...

O thank got i can finally sleep at night, wait! 'thank god' can i say that?

It's so reassuring to know they are making good use of their time.

How many remarks have any of us ever said that, taken out of context would look really bad.
As for John Lennon, he was a helluva an artist.
I doubt he paid much attention to the Vatican, who is steeped in centuries of dogma.

The amazing thing is that the Catholic church thinks that what John Lennon said needs to be forgiven. Old white men sitting around all day in robes, acting out their perceived supremacy/divinity will never cease to amaze me.

"All we are saying ......."

The comment oh soooo long ago was not meant to be forgiven. It was a comment, sarcastic, maybe taken out of context and just a comment. Alas, the Vatican did make a big deal out of this, and so Beatle Albums were being bulldozed and broken and burned by people; ahm, lemmings who
I guess really did not appreciate the music.
I’m guessing the Vatican “The Roman Catholic Church” wants back in. And what better way to do that is to dig deep into their robes and pull out the baby boomer generation card along with what they can find being contraversional that will not respond back and make good.
Guess what? It’s a new world and even though I would love to hear what John Lennon’s remark would be on this issue now, a whole generation (the ones who saved their records from the burn pile, because we had to use our allowance to by them) and more, can respond back!
Individually, on the web, on TV, anywhere and amazingly enough we can also listen too.
The Beatles music is and always will be classic and grows with time, gathering new listeners every day and maybe somehow the Vatican need to send out new messages and make up for their bad ones.
Hopefully, there are “positive changes” coming. Imagine

The Vatican still doesn't understand. He wasn't "showing off" he was simply saying wow millions are buying our albums while jesus is pretty much ignored. And thank god people were smart enough to listen to the beatles instead of believe in god. "Youthful joke"? The Vatican is a joke.

I can never forgive the Vatican for all it's sins. Their religion is a joke and has caused the deaths of millions of innocent people. Whatever hell is, shall the religious hypocrites dwell there for eternity.

So will the thousands of people who've been sexually abused by Priests that Pope Benedict ( then arch bishop Ratzinger ) personally covered up, forgive HIM ??

Imagine

Lennon wasn't even catholic.

Good to know the vatican newspaper is in control of absolution now....

Follow your nazi youth shepherd, sheeple.

Imagine!

Ride on!

Years ago I saw the a clip of the comment he made. For the record it was said in an ironic manner. It was as if he himseff was chargrined over all the hype that surrounded the Beatles.

I'm sure John, wherever he is, has also found it in his heart to forgive the church for centuries of bigotry and hate.

40 years too late. What would Jesus have done?

I guess the Catholic church is starting to get on track. start small, and work their way up.

I am sure John is at Peace now!!! Ha! If they forgive priest from child molestation I would THINK they could have let John's comment go many years ago. Let it Be!

Maybe they are leading by example. The Catholic church as a whole has done many things that would place them in need of forgiveness.

How big of them. Meh.

Yes maybe his comments were a little insensitive but you can't fool statistics. If more people say they like the Beatles than willingly go to church, and several polls support it, then that's science. Fact. Whether you like the result or not.

I like the pope, cos the pope smokes dope.

The Pope rocks.

I'm down with Pope Benedict.. he hung out with Stephen Hawking and all his Darwin buddies a few weeks ago, and now he's making good with that stupid remark over the Beetles.

I have a feeling the Roman Catholic church is in for many positive changes. With it being such a broad sweeping church, this is revolutionary! He really does have an open mind about things that we face today, unlike popes before that were shielded from life due to their priestly duties.

Go Pope Benedict!