# Bob Dylan Meets Pope

> Pope Leo XIV grants Bob Dylan private Vatican audience after Dylan's Christian music career.
- Title: Bob Dylan Meets Pope · Pitchfork | Shortify
- Summary: 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…
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- Author: Jazz Monroe
- Published: 2026-11-04T17:51:17.628+00:00
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## Pope Leo XIV Audience
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Pope Leo quoted the little-known Dylan lyric 'Go Away You Bomb', written in 1963 for an unpublished book of anti-nuclear poetry, in the preface to Unarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift, an anthology of…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
## Key takeaway

Pope Leo XIV granted Bob Dylan a private audience at the Vatican on November 4, 2023, following Dylan's Christian music career.