Bob Dylan meets with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican

Bob Dylan met with Pope Leo XIV Wednesday at the Vatican during a break between his concert dates in Italy. The American singer-songwriter, who was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a polka-dot tie, presented the Pope with a copy of his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One.Leo, 71, gave the 85-year-old singer a rosary during the brief encounter “consisting of greetings and a few lighthearted exchanges,” according to the Vatican. 3:09 Bob Dylan delivers speech to Swedish Academy to collect money for Nobel prize Two Vatican officials accompanied Dylan: the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a Vatican culture ministry official and Andrea Monda, the editor of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Story continues below advertisement Spadaro said the Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door singer wanted to speak with Leo, and the two met in private for a few minutes.“It was hard not to feel the emotion of being part of an encounter that had a real sense of history about it, with the feeling that, at every step through the Apostolic Palace, absolutely anything could happen,” Spadaro wrote in a post on X.Dylan and Leo were pictured shaking hands and seated at a table for a brief conversation. Pope Leo XI...