I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY! ARREST THE POPE, FORGIVE THE BEATLES?!

In a surreal lyrical juxtaposition worthy of Lennon and McCartney, a movement, spearheaded by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, to have the Pope arrested is gaining some legal traction, while the Vatican has decided that The Beatles were, after all, a really great musical group!

Here's Dawkins:

"This man [Pope Benedict] is a leering old villain in a frock, who spent decades conspiring behind closed doors for the position he now holds; a man who believes he is infallible and acts the part; a man whose preaching of scientific falsehood is responsible for the deaths of countless AIDS victims in Africa; a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence."

Here's Hitchens:

"This man is not above or outside the law. The institutionalized concealment of child rape is a crime under any law and demands not private ceremonies of repentance or church-funded payoffs, but justice and punishment."

Meanwhile, here's Giovanni Maria Vian, the editor in chief of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper:

"It's true, they took drugs; swept up by their success, they lived dissolute and uninhibited lives. They even said they were more famous than Jesus. But, listening to their songs, all of this seems distant and meaningless. Their beautiful melodies, which changed forever pop music and still give us emotions, live on like precious jewels."
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