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VATICAN CITY (March 8) - Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of "prophet," Benedict writes in a new book issued on Thursday.
Benedict, who was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the time of the concert in Bologna, Italy, makes the disclosure in a new book of memoirs about his predecessor, who died in 2005.
"There was reason to be skeptical, -- I was, and in a certain sense I still am, -- to doubt if it was really right to let these types of prophets intervene," Benedict writes, only mentioning Dylan among the stars who appeared.
At the 1997 concert, Dylan, the anti-conformist troubadour of the 1960s and one of the 20th century's greatest influences on popular music, sang three songs before the Pope as part of a concert that included a number of other, mostly Italian artists.
Dylan sang "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," his 1960s anti-war classic "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," and "Forever Young," a song of hope and courage.
In his new book, Pope Benedict does not explain why he does not like Bob Dylan or why he considers him a false "prophet."
Benedict is a lover of classical and sacred music, and an accomplished classical pianist. Last year, he canceled the Vatican's traditional fund-raising Christmas concert, which was a magnet for pop stars.
Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman into a middle-class Jewish family in Minnesota, has been at times agnostic, Jewish and a born-again Christian during his musical career.
I find it interesting that the pope would validate in any way Dylan's status as a prophet. Heck, when a ruler of that time asked Jesus as to his alleged status of Messiah, Christ answered that HE wasn't making those claims while people like the ruler were giving creedence to the idea by simply bringing up the topic. I think that kind of fits here, too.
Those offended by the taste of a certain medicine while it goes down and quick to call it vile remind me of those bothered by an idea who then bring the same truth to light by their protests against that which they fear/despise.
lw
It is most likely a translation error. The Pope is concerned with profits, not prophets.
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For the words of the profits,
are written on the studio wall,
and concert halls,
echoes,
with the sounds ...
of salesmen...of salesmen
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John, 3:37 Therefore Pilate said to him: “Well, then, are you a king?†Jesus answered: “You yourself are saying that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone that is on the side of the truth listens to my voice.â€
Lol too funny! :P
"don't follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters..."
"You who choose to lead must follow,
but if you fall, you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way, I would take you home."