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You just can’t make this stiff up. From CNN:

When John Lennon remarked in 1966 that the Beatles were then “more popular than Jesus” his comments prompted outrage in the United States. But this weekend the Vatican’s newspaper paid tribute to the band on the 40th anniversary of the release of the “White Album” in an article interpreted by some as a papal pardon for Lennon…