The Rev. Guilherme Peixoto was sitting down for dinner the night before a high-profile DJ gig in Slovakia — a combination youth festival and birthday celebration for the archbishop of Kosice — when the church’s production team began to buzz with excitement.
They had a new opening act: Pope Leo XIV.
Peixoto, a 51-year-old priest and DJ based in Braga, Portugal, scrambled to adjust. For nearly two weeks before the November event, he had pored over melodic techno beats by Slovakian music producers and selected popular hymns in Polish and Slovak. Now he had to incorporate a special video message from the Holy Father that the Vatican had sent to surprise the archbishop.
Peixoto, a 51-year-old priest and DJ based in Braga, Portugal, scrambled to adjust. For nearly two weeks before the November event, he had pored over melodic techno beats by Slovakian music producers and selected popular hymns in Polish and Slovak. Now he had to incorporate a special video message from the Holy Father that the Vatican had sent to surprise the archbishop.
