The Vatican has “forgiven” John Lennon for a remark he made about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus.

What?

That makes no sense. There’s nothing to forgive. He wasn’t bragging, just making an observation. If you think about it, it was an observation that condemned organized religion. In other words “Why are we more popular than Jesus? If the churches were doing their jobs, they wouldn’t have anything to worry about.”

Lennon may have done a lot that needs forgiveness (e.g. hanging out with domestic terrorists), but making an observation about the church isn’t one of them.