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He was familiar with Smith's tune "Wave." “That was marvelous,” he said.
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He was familiar with Smith's tune "Wave." “That was marvelous,” he said.
Read this reportMeeting was "a conversation between two people discovering they were old friends, sharing memories woven from words and music, dreams, visions, and hopes," Vatican undersecretary writes
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AIPROPX has consolidated 3 reports from 3 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Patti Smith Reflects On Meeting Pope Leo XIV: ‘A Moment That Will Forever Produce a Smile.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from Chicago Tribune (Jul 31, 2026, 20:47 UTC); the most recent came from Billboard (Aug 1, 2026, 22:27 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 3 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “pope leo xiv”.
2 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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AIPROPX — “Patti Smith Reflects On Meeting Pope Leo XIV: ‘A Moment That Will Forever Produce a Smile” · https://www.aipropx.com/story/c1cd171e978c960aecc97c558da1b63c
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