# Pope Leo XIV welcomes Bob Dylan to the Vatican in a brief visit

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/pope-leo-xiv-welcomes-bob-dylan-to-the-vatican-in-a-brief-visit/
- Published: 2026-11-04T23:06:26+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T02:35:24+00:00
- Original publisher: PBS NewsHour (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/pope-leo-xiv-welcomes-bob-dylan-to-the-vatican-in-a-brief-visit
- Topics: Politics

## Key points

- Bob Dylan had a brief private meeting with Pope Leo XIV.
- Leo gave Dylan a rosary; Dylan gave him his autobiography.
- The pope has cited Dylan’s protest lyrics on nuclear weapons.

## Summary

Bob Dylan met Pope Leo XIV privately at the Vatican during a break in his Italian concert schedule. The brief encounter brought together the singer-songwriter, whose work the pope has cited in discussions of peace and nuclear weapons, and the Chicago-born pontiff, who grew up familiar with Dylan’s music.

Leo gave Dylan a rosary, while Dylan presented the pope with his autobiography, *Chronicles: Volume One*. In a 2026 book, Leo quoted a line from Dylan’s unpublished 1963 protest song “Go Away You Bomb” while warning against rearmament and nuclear weapons. Dylan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, previously performed for Pope John Paul II in 1997; he was in Milan on Monday and scheduled to play in Rome on Thursday.

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