Why the Pope Hates Bob Dylan
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Just Because Bono is becoming part of the Episcopal church service, don't expect the same of Bob Dylan. Word this week that Pope Benedict tried to stop Bob Dylan playing for the late John Paul II in 1997, because he feared the musician was a "prophet" whose beliefs were at odds with the Roman Catholic Church.
In a new book of memoirs about his predecessor, the Pope recalls the events of the World Eucharist Congress at Bologna in 1997, a gathering of 300,000 young Catholic pilgrims who were to be exposed to the singer's iconoclastic songs and their "completely different" message, reports the Telegraph.
Pope Benedict wrote: "The Pope appeared tired, exhausted. At that very moment the stars arrived, Bob Dylan and others whose names I do not remember.
''They had a completely different message from the one which the Pope had.
"There was reason to be sceptical - I was, and in some ways I still am - over whether it was really right to allow this type of 'prophet' to appear."
Pope Benedict is known to have a strong dislike of popular music.
Last year, he cancelled the Vatican's Christmas fundraising concert and banned guitars from Mass.Six years ago he labelled rock and pop music "anti-Christian".
At the event in Bologna, Dylan performed four songs, including Knockin' on Heaven's Door, A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall and Blowin' in the Wind.
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