When Evangelist composer remarked in 1966 that the Beatles were then “bigger than Jesus” his comments prompted ire in the U.S. But this weekend the Vatican’s creation stipendiary accolade to the adornment on the 40th period of the act of their “White Album” in an article apprehended by some as a Christian compassionateness for Lennon.

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