{"id":10153,"date":"2026-11-05T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/bob-dylan-meets-with-pope-leo-xiv-at-the-vatican-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:00:51","slug":"bob-dylan-meets-with-pope-leo-xiv-at-the-vatican-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/bob-dylan-meets-with-pope-leo-xiv-at-the-vatican-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan meets with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican – National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bob Dylan<\/a> met with Pope Leo<\/a> XIV Wednesday at the Vatican during a break between his concert dates in Italy.<\/p>\n

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The American singer-songwriter, who was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a polka-dot tie, presented the Pope with a copy of his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One.<\/em><\/p>\n

Leo, 71, gave the 85-year-old singer a rosary during the brief encounter \u201cconsisting of greetings and a few lighthearted exchanges,\u201d according to the Vatican<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Two Vatican officials accompanied Dylan: the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a Vatican culture ministry official\u00a0and Andrea Monda, the editor of the Vatican newspaper, L\u2019Osservatore Romano.<\/p>\n

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Spadaro said<\/a> the\u00a0Knockin\u2019 On Heaven\u2019s Door\u00a0<\/em>singer wanted to speak with Leo, and the two met in private for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hard not to feel the emotion of being part of an encounter that had a real sense of history about it, with the feeling that, at every step through the Apostolic Palace, absolutely anything could happen,\u201d Spadaro wrote in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dylan and Leo were pictured shaking hands and seated at a table for a brief conversation.<\/p>\n

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Leo had quoted from an unpublished protest song Dylan penned in 1963, Go Away You Bomb<\/em>, in his 2026 book Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift<\/em>, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

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Leo was warning against the race to rearm and the recourse to nuclear weapons and quoted the lyric, addressed to a hypothetical atomic bomb: \u201cI hate you cause yer man-made and man-owned, an\u2019 man-handled.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Leo is not the first pope that Dylan has met.<\/p>\n

The Like a Rolling Stone <\/em>singer had previously met with Pope John Paul II, and thousands of other people, in 1997 during a concert capping a religious congress in Bologna, Italy.<\/p>\n

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Dylan\u2019s visit with Leo took place ahead of his scheduled performance at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome on Wednesday, which is one of his many stops on the European leg of his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour.<\/p>\n

Dylan, who changed his name from Robert Zimmerman, was born to a Jewish family in Minnesota. He famously became a born-again Christian in 1979.<\/p>\n

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