{"id":675006,"date":"2026-11-04T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675006\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:52:11","slug":"bob-dylan-wearing-hoodie-meets-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675006\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan, Wearing Hoodie, Meets Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Leo XIV granted Bob Dylan<\/a> a private audience at the Vatican this morning (November 4), further cementing his downtown bona fides after welcoming<\/a> Patti Smith in July. Dylan, the mythically private and fuss-refusing<\/a> Nobel laureate, wore a black hoodie, hood up\u2014seemingly held aloft by a black baseball cap\u2014for the occasion, in evidence in a photo published by the Vatican\u2019s Dicastery for Communication. Another photo<\/a> seemingly shows Dylan signing a book for His Holiness, having removed a single glove.<\/p>\n

Although raised Jewish, Dylan converted to evangelical Christianity in 1978. He released a string of Christian albums and peppered his live show with Christian songs\u2014astounding legions of fans and contemporaries\u2014but dialed down the religious fervor in subsequent years, primarily expressing his accord with God through the medium of ludicrous Christmas songs<\/a>. In 1997, he played at a concert honoring Pope John Paul II.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo, for his part, appears to be quite the Dylan scholar. He quoted the little-known Dylan lyric \u201cGo Away You Bomb\u201d\u2014written in 1963 for an unpublished book of anti-nuclear poetry\u2014in the preface to Unarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift, an anthology of his speeches.<\/p>\n

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