Bigger than Rod

"It was in March 1966 that Lennon made his infamous claim.
"'Christianity will go,' he told a reporter from the Evening Standard.
"'It will vanish and shrink We're more popular than Jesus now--I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.'"

Nick Squires in the Telegraph says that the Vatican has forgiven John Lennon.