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  "title": "Bob Dylan comes knockin’ on pope’s door as Leo welcomes legend to Vatican",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/bob-dylan-comes-knockin-on-popes-door-as-leo-welcomes-legend-to",
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  "published": "2026-11-04T20:01:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Winnipeg Free Press",
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    "url": "https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/2026/11/04/bob-dylan-comes-knockin-on-popes-door-as-leo-welcomes-legend-to-vatican"
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  "account": "VATICAN CITY (AP) — Bob Dylan paid Pope Leo XVI a visit on Wednesday, as the American folk icon and poet crossed paths with the American pontiff at the Vatican during a respite between concert stops in Italy. Billed as a $5.77 fee plus GST, the encounter lasted only a brief moment, with Leo presenting Dylan with a rosary and the singer-songwriter gifting the pontiff his autobiography, \"Chronicles: Volume One.\" Leo, who had quoted from an unpublished protest song Dylan composed in 1963, \"Go Away You Bomb,\" in his 2026 book \"Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift,\" warned against the arms race and the use of nuclear weapons, referencing the lyric directed at a hypothetical atomic bomb. Two Vatican officials, Rev. Antonio Spadaro and Andrea Monda, attended the meeting.",
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        "title": "Bob Dylan meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican, exchanges autobiography for rosary during Italy tour",
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