{"id":2147999,"date":"2025-11-11T02:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2147999"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:50:30","slug":"pope-leo-to-host-hollywood-stars-including-cate-blanchett-pine-at-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pope-leo-to-host-hollywood-stars-including-cate-blanchett-pine-at-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo to host Hollywood stars including Cate Blanchett, Pine at Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Lights, camera, action, pope?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About three dozen Hollywood stars will meet \u200bPope Leo this weekend, including actors Cate Blanchett, \u200cChris Pine and Adam Scott, the Vatican said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also joining a special \u200caudience at the Vatican with Leo, the first pope from the United States, will be Oscar-winning directors Spike Lee, George Miller and Gus Van Sant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pope &#8220;has expressed his desire to deepen \u2060dialogue with the World \u200cof Cinema&#8230; exploring the possibilities that artistic creativity offers to the mission of the Church and \u200dthe promotion of human values,&#8221; the Vatican said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Papal events often feature high-ranking Catholic cardinals but rarely include Hollywood stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The late \u200bPope Francis, however, hosted an event at the Vatican \u200cin June 2024 for comedians, including U.S. late night hosts Conan O&#8217;Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among others set to take part in Saturday&#8217;s event with Leo are actors Alison Brie, Dave Franco, and Viggo Mortensen and directors Joanna \u2060Hogg, Tony Kaye and Julie Taymor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ahead \u200bof the new event, the Vatican \u200bshared four of the pope&#8217;s favourite films: &#8220;It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life&#8221; (1946); \u200d&#8221;The Sound \u2060of Music&#8221; (1965); &#8220;Ordinary People&#8221; (1980); and &#8220;Life Is Beautiful&#8221; (\u20601997).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saturday&#8217;s event is being organised by the Vatican&#8217;s culture office as \u200cpart of the Church&#8217;s ongoing Holy Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u200cby Joshua McElweeEditing by Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Lights, camera, action, pope? About three dozen Hollywood stars will meet \u200bPope Leo this weekend, including actors Cate Blanchett, \u200cChris Pine and Adam Scott, the Vatican said on Monday. Also joining a special \u200caudience at the Vatican with Leo, the first pope from the United States, will be Oscar-winning directors Spike Lee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2148000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[309534,134358,77120,369948,319670,348511,353229,353968,374715,370938,396260,45167,371126,393403],"class_list":["post-2147999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-action","tag-adam-scott","tag-alison-brie","tag-camera","tag-cate-blanchett","tag-chris-pine","tag-george-miller","tag-gus-van-sant","tag-lights","tag-pope-francis","tag-pope-leo","tag-spike-lee","tag-the-vatican","tag-viggo-mortensen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Pope-Leo-to-host-Hollywood-stars-including-Cate-Blanchett-Pine.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148001,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147999\/revisions\/2148001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}