The current pope, Benedict the XVI, reveals in a memoir that he was not fond of Bob Dylan sharing the stage with Pope John Paul II, during a 1997 rock concert. Pope Benny (and his Jets) felt that it might send the wrong image to Catholics; " da Pope don't ride that way"! I am just wondering, would Madonna or Bono have been more suitable to his tastes? It's so tricky when it comes to images, I mean, here you have a rockers who likes to sing about "knock-knock-knocking on heavens door", in the presence of the Pope, the chief poobah of the religion most closely associated to sex scandals where the clergy men were a "knock-knock-knocking down little boys virginity"....whose image is really taking a hit being seen together? What would Thomas Roberts say about this?
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