# Bob Dylan, Wearing Hoodie, Meets Pope

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/bob-dylan-wearing-hoodie-meets-pope/
- Published: 2026-11-04T17:51:17+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T06:04:26+00:00
- Original publisher: Pitchfork
- Original article: https://pitchfork.com/story/bob-dylan-wearing-hoodie-meets-pope/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Pope Leo XIV held a private audience with Bob Dylan at the Vatican.
- Dylan wore a black hoodie and signed a book for the Pope.
- Leo has quoted a little-known Dylan lyric about nuclear weapons.

## Summary

Pope Leo XIV met Bob Dylan in a private audience at the Vatican on 4 November, bringing together the famously private musician and a pontiff who has shown interest in his work. The meeting drew attention partly because Dylan arrived in a black hoodie with the hood up, and partly because Leo had previously welcomed Patti Smith.

Vatican photographs showed Dylan signing a book for the Pope. Raised Jewish, Dylan converted to evangelical Christianity in 1978 and released several Christian albums, though he later reduced the religious focus of his performances; he also played at a 1997 concert honouring Pope John Paul II. Leo quoted Dylan’s little-known 1963 anti-nuclear lyric “Go Away You Bomb” in the preface to an anthology of his speeches.

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