Overview
- Vatican Media confirmed that Pope Leo XIV received Bob Dylan for a private audience on Wednesday, November 4, and published official photographs of the encounter.
- The visit was short and cordial, with the pope presenting a rosary and Dylan giving his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One.
- Pope Leo had earlier quoted lines from Dylan's little-known 1963 protest song 'Go Away You Bomb' in July in the preface to a Vatican book on disarmament.
- Bob Dylan is 85 years old and continues his Italy tour with concerts scheduled in Rome on November 5 and Bologna on November 7.
- The meeting echoes Dylan's 1997 performance before Pope John Paul II and shows how the Holy See is using cultural figures and official imagery to amplify moral messages on issues such as nuclear disarmament.