Bob Dylan meets Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican

Culture · First reported 4 Nov, 16:40 · Updated 17:22

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Bob Dylan met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican during the singer’s Italy concert tour, according to the Vatican and ANSA. The brief audience included an exchange of gifts; right-side coverage also presented the meeting as a celebrity photo item and highlighted Dylan’s faith and music.

The Vatican said Dylan met Pope Leo at the Apostolic Palace on Wednesday, while he was in Italy for a concert tour that included a scheduled performance in Rome the following evening.
Vatican media described the audience as brief, with greetings and a short exchange of remarks. The Pope gave Dylan a rosary, and Dylan gave the Pope his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One.
Father Antonio Spadaro said he accompanied Dylan to meet the Pope with Andrea Monda, and shared photographs of the meeting on social media.
ANSA notes Dylan’s Christian phase in the late 1970s and early 1980s and the Pope’s earlier use of lines from Dylan’s protest song “Go Away You Bomb.”
The Times snippet presents the Vatican visit as connected to decades of singing about faith; the New York Post includes the meeting in a collection of celebrity photographs.

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Key facts

Meeting: Dylan met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Wednesday.
Audience: Vatican media described it as brief, with greetings and a short exchange of remarks.
Gifts: The Pope gave Dylan a rosary; Dylan gave the Pope a copy of Chronicles: Volume One.
Tour: Dylan was in Italy for a concert tour, with a Rome performance scheduled for the following evening.
Song reference: ANSA says the Pope had quoted lines from Dylan’s 1963 protest song “Go Away You Bomb” in a book preface.