US singer Bob Dylan meets Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City
Pope Leo XIV hosted Bob Dylan at his official residence, the Apostolic Palace, on Wednesday during the Rome stop on the singer-songwriter's Italian tour.
TL;DR
- Bob Dylan met Pope Leo XIV at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.
- The meeting occurred during Dylan's Italian tour stop in Rome.
- Pope Leo XIV presented Dylan with a rosary, and Dylan gifted the Pope his autobiography, 'Chronicles: Volume One'.
- Pope Leo XIV has previously quoted Dylan's unreleased anti-nuclear song, 'Go Away You Bomb'.
- This was Dylan's second meeting with a pope, the first being with Pope John Paul II in 1997.