Top 10 Vatican Pop-Culture Moments
The Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper has decided that the Simpsons — the cartoon world's most famous family — are one of its own. TIME takes a look at other moments when the Roman Catholic Church mixed with contemporary culture
The Beatles, Bigger Than Jesus
John Lennon's 1966 comment that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus Christ" stirred so much controversy that it took the Catholic Church 44 years to forgive the band. Lennon didn't mean his comment literally, of course. In 1966, the world had a full-blown case of Beatlemania, and Lennon was simply exaggerating its reach to make a point. In April 2010, the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, offered the rock-'n'-roll icons complete absolution. Um ... thanks?
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