# So, the Vatican has absolved the Beatles

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 13, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-vatican-has-absolved-the-beatles/535910 "2010-04-13T01:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-vatican-has-absolved-the-beatles/535910/41 "2010-04-15T19:37:16Z")

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For a little perspective:

> **[The fake war against the Beatles](https://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/the-fake-war-against-the-beatles/)**
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> VATICAN CITY — Many news headlines over the past week contained some variant of: “Vatican forgives/makes peace with/absolves the Beatles!” It came after the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore R…

To hear current commentary, you’d think the Vatican condemned the Bealtes as Satanic in 1966, and never said another thing about them until the other day.

Wrong.

The Church never took the Beatles all that seriously in 1966 (it wasn’t Catholics burning Beatle merchandise). And the Beatles have been mentioned postiviely by L’Osservatore Romano numerous times since then.

The idea that the Church has held some kind of grudge for 44 years, or that the Beatles have been under some kind of papal fatwa is ridiculous.

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-vatican-has-absolved-the-beatles/535910/42 "2010-04-16T05:15:14Z")

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> [@Wheelz](#):
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> Perhaps one day we’ll be enlightened enough that nobody will give a crap what the Vatican says anymore.

My sentiments exactly. But I’m not holding my breath.

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