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The Chicago-born pontiff \u2014 who is also the first pope from the U.S. \u2014 will be holding a special audience at the Vatican\u2019s Apostolic Palace on Saturday morning to be attended by dozens of stars including Cate Blanchett<\/a>, Chris Pine<\/a>, Viggo Mortensen<\/a>, Alison Brie<\/a>, Dave Franco<\/a> and Monica Bellucci<\/a>, the Vatican<\/a> has announced.<\/p>\n Oscar-winning directors Spike Lee<\/a>, George Miller<\/a>, Giuseppe Tornatore<\/a> and Gus Van Sant<\/a> are also expected at the event, which is being organized by the Vatican\u2019s culture office as part of the Catholic Church\u2019s ongoing Holy Year celebrations.<\/p>\n The pope \u201chas expressed his desire to deepen dialogue with the World of Cinema\u2026 exploring the possibilities that artistic creativity offers to the mission of the Church and the promotion of human values,\u201d the Vatican said in a statement.<\/p>\n In a further signal that Pope Leo…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pope Leo is set to host a Hollywood gathering at the Vatican. The Chicago-born pontiff \u2014 who is also the first pope from the U.S. \u2014 will be holding a special audience at the Vatican\u2019s Apostolic Palace on Saturday morning to be attended by dozens of stars including Cate Blanchett, Chris Pine, Viggo Mortensen, Alison […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2148950,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2148949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Pope-Leo-Woos-Hollywood-With-Cate-Blanchett-Chris-Pine-Dave.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148949","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=2148949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148951,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148949\/revisions\/2148951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}