ByThe Associated Press November 12, 2026, 3:23 PM Pope Leo XIV returned to the continent where he spent two decades as a missionary priest and learned to become a pastor, visiting Uruguay, Argentina and his second homeland of Peru. In Paraguay, former Vice President Pedro Alliana was sworn in as president to complete the term
The visit happened ahead of Dylan’s scheduled performance on Thursday at the Palazzo dello Sport, one of several Italian stops on his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour. Leo has previously referenced Dylan in his own work, quoting Dylan’s unreleased anti-nuclear song, Go Away You Bomb, in the preface to a book titled Disarmed and Disarming:
Pope Leo XIV has submitted his mail-in ballot in Illinois, for the midterm elections, becoming the first-ever pope to vote in a US election. “The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes,” the Holy See Press Office said in a statement. The Chicago-born pontiff
Pope Leo XIV held his first public engagement since his lung cancer surgery on Sunday, as he recited the Angelus prayer from the window of Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. The surgery had taken place just a few days before, after Pope Leo had been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, the most common form of lung cancer. After
