{"id":37685,"date":"2026-06-09T22:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/37685\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:08:40","slug":"pope-leo-meets-latin-superstar-bad-bunny-on-sidelines-of-spain-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/37685\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo meets Latin superstar Bad Bunny on sidelines of Spain visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Leo XIV met Latin superstar Bad Bunny on the sidelines of his visit to Spain, with the private encounter taking place after a Madrid church event at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u football stadium, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Bruni said Leo and the Puerto Rican singer had spoken late on Monday evening “shortly before he [the pope] left the stadium,” confirming earlier media reports.<\/p>\n

Spanish broadcaster RTVE and other media had reported that Leo greeted Bad Bunny, his family and other members of his entourage at the stadium of Spanish record champions Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

In total, the pope met nearly a dozen other prominent figures in the Spanish capital, including Real Madrid president and construction magnate Florentino P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n

No images of the encounter with Bad Bunny were initially released.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny is currently in Madrid for a series of concerts. The 32-year-old artist is performing on 10 evenings between May 30 and June 15 at the Metropolitano stadium, with around 66,000 visitors expected each night, meaning the total audience across the concert series is expected to reach around 660,000.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny is a critic of US deportation policy<\/p>\n

Leo had already made a joking reference to the musician’s popularity on the flight to Spain.<\/p>\n

“If they are confronted with the question, do they want to see Bad Bunny or do they want to see the pope, I think many will see Bad Bunny,” the 70-year-old US pontiff said.<\/p>\n

He also expressed confidence that large numbers of the faithful would attend his events in Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n

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FILE PHOTO – Bad Bunny performs during the Apple Music halftime show at the Super Bowl LIX American football match between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots at Levi Stadium. (is associated with: \u00abPope Leo meets Latin superstar Bad Bunny on sidelines of Spain visit\u00bb) Kindell Buchanan\/PA Wire\/dpa<\/p>\n

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A general view of the meeting of Pope Leo XIV with the diocesan community, at the Bernabeu Stadium. (is associated with: \u00abPope Leo meets Latin superstar Bad Bunny on sidelines of Spain visit\u00bb) Ricardo Rubio\/EUROPA PRESS\/dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV met Latin superstar Bad Bunny on the sidelines of his visit to Spain, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14189,12132,17967,17966,17968,9933,83,17965,17969,17],"class_list":["post-37685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-bad-bunny","tag-bernabeu-stadium","tag-diocesan-community","tag-latin-superstar","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-pope-leo","tag-real-madrid","tag-santiago-bernabeu-football-stadium","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}