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Bob Dylan Meets Pope
Pope Leo XIV grants Bob Dylan private Vatican audience after Dylan's Christian music career.
In brief
Pope Leo XIV grants Bob Dylan private Vatican audience after Dylan's Christian music career. Pope Leo XIV granted Bob Dylan a private audience at the Vatican on November 4, 2023, following Dylan's Christian music career. Originally reported by Pitchfork.
Pope Leo XIV Audience
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Pope Leo XIV granted Bob Dylan a private audience at the Vatican this morning (November 4), further cementing his downtown bona fides after welcoming Patti Smith in July.
Dylan's Christian Music
Dylan, the mythically private and fuss-refusing Nobel laureate, wore a black hoodie, hood up, seemingly held aloft by a black baseball cap, for the occasion, in evidence in a photo published by the Vatican’s Dicastery…
Pope's Dylan Quote
Pope Leo quoted the little-known Dylan lyric 'Go Away You Bomb', written in 1963 for an unpublished book of anti-nuclear poetry, in the preface to Unarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift, an anthology of…
“Go Away You Bomb”
The one thing
Pope Leo XIV granted Bob Dylan a private audience at the Vatican on November 4, 2023, following Dylan's Christian music career.
