Posted on 03/08/2007 5:24:32 PM PST by xzins
Pope once tried to bar Dylan concert
March 08, 2007 5:16 PM EST
VATICAN CITY, Mar 8, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Pope Benedict XVI tried to bar Bob Dylan from a Roman Catholic youth rally in Italy, fearing he was a prophet whose message differed from Pope John Paul II's.
In his memoirs about his predecessor, Pope Benedict recalled events of the World Eucharist Congress in Bologna, Italy, in 1997, and the 300,000-plus crowd about to hear Dylan's songs and their messages that didn't necessarily mirror church teachings, the Telegraph said Wednesday.
"The Pope appeared tired, exhausted. At that very moment the stars arrived, Bob Dylan and others whose names I do not remember," Benedict wrote. "They had a completely different message from the one which the Pope had. There was reason to be skeptical -- I was, and in some ways I still am -- over whether it was really right to allow this type of 'prophet' to appear."
Dylan's set included "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" and "Blowin' in the Wind," which John Paul used as a basis for his sermon.
Benedict, who has called rock and pop music "anti-Christian," last year canceled the Vatican's Christmas fundraising concert and banned guitars from mass.
Knockin' on heaven's door is an awesome song.
Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore.
It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore.
That long black cloud is comin' down
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
I wonder if the Pope approves of Jerry Vale.
Saved
I was blinded by the devil,
Born already ruined,
Stone-cold dead
As I stepped out of the womb.
By His grace I have been touched,
By His word I have been healed,
By His hand I've been delivered,
By His spirit I've been sealed.
I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm so glad,
I'm so glad,
So glad,
I want to thank You, Lord,
I just want to thank You, Lord,
Thank You, Lord.
By His truth I can be upright,
By His strength I do endure,
By His power I've been lifted,
In His love I am secure.
He bought me with a price,
Freed me from the pit,
Full of emptiness and wrath
And the fire that burns in it.
I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm so glad,
I'm so glad,
So glad,
I want to thank You, Lord,
I just want to thank You, Lord,
Thank You, Lord.
Nobody to rescue me,
Nobody would dare,
I was going down for the last time,
But by His mercy I've been spared.
Not by works,
But by faith in Him who called,
For so long I've been hindered,
For so long I've been stalled.
I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm so glad, I'm so glad,
So glad, I want to thank You, Lord,
I just want to thank You, Lord,
Thank You, Lord.
Probably not
Arrivederci Roma
I new he hated Jews....:)
"banned guitars from mass."
I guess Rick Warren and his praise band won't be getting an audience any day soon.
So did Pete Seeger.
All the great musicians really were German.
Why mess around with the rest?
Anti-electric communist.
Not good company for a German pope, donchathink?
I like "The Fly" by U2, but Bono needs a good shoe.
Pope Benedict, keep using the foot. Yeah!
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