POPE THINKS ROCK THE WORK OF SATAN, TRIED TO STOP DYLAN VATICAN CONCERT
PAUL MACINNES, GUARDIAN - It was unlikely that the pair would ever be
close friends: Pope Benedict XVI, conservative theologian, and Bob
Dylan, iconoclastic singer and poet. Yet the pontiff's feelings about
the singer run so deep that he once tried to stop him performing at the
Vatican. In his new book, Pope Benedict recalls his doubts over whether
Dylan should have been allowed to play a concert at the behest of his
predecessor, Pope John Paul II, in 1997. Describing Dylan as a "type of
'prophet'", he claimed the singer's message diverged from that the Pope
wished to convey.
Remembering the concert, which saw Dylan perform in front of 300,000
young Catholics in Bologna, Benedict writes in his book, John Paul II,
My Beloved Predecessor: "There was reason to be skeptical, and I was.
Indeed, in a certain sense I still am today.". . .
After failing to stop the concert, Pope Benedict, then a Cardinal, was
forced to endure a set by Dylan which included Knockin' on Heaven's Door
and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall with Forever Young as an encore. . .
Pope John Paul II's willingness to associate with pop stars is not
shared by his successor. Not just distrustful of Dylan, Pope Benedict
has claimed that all rock music is the work of Satan and has called off
the Christmas pop concerts at the Vatican introduced by John Paul. He
also opposes the use of guitars in mass.
http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2029176,00.html
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PAUL MACINNES, GUARDIAN - It was unlikely that the pair would ever be
close friends: Pope Benedict XVI, conservative theologian, and Bob
Dylan, iconoclastic singer and poet. Yet the pontiff's feelings about
the singer run so deep that he once tried to stop him performing at the
Vatican. In his new book, Pope Benedict recalls his doubts over whether
Dylan should have been allowed to play a concert at the behest of his
predecessor, Pope John Paul II, in 1997. Describing Dylan as a "type of
'prophet'", he claimed the singer's message diverged from that the Pope
wished to convey.
Remembering the concert, which saw Dylan perform in front of 300,000
young Catholics in Bologna, Benedict writes in his book, John Paul II,
My Beloved Predecessor: "There was reason to be skeptical, and I was.
Indeed, in a certain sense I still am today.". . .
After failing to stop the concert, Pope Benedict, then a Cardinal, was
forced to endure a set by Dylan which included Knockin' on Heaven's Door
and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall with Forever Young as an encore. . .
Pope John Paul II's willingness to associate with pop stars is not
shared by his successor. Not just distrustful of Dylan, Pope Benedict
has claimed that all rock music is the work of Satan and has called off
the Christmas pop concerts at the Vatican introduced by John Paul. He
also opposes the use of guitars in mass.
http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2029176,00.html
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