Pope Leo XIV views excerpts of Roberto Benigni\u2019s upcoming monologue \u201cPeter: A Man in the Wind,\u201d produced in collaboration with Vatican Media and airing on Italian state TV.<\/p>\n
Vatican News<\/p>\n
Pope Leo XIV received Oscar-winning Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni on Thursday afternoon at the Apostolic Palace, together with Italian state TV CEOs and producers.<\/p>\n
According to a note released on Telegram by the Holy See Press Office, the visit took place ahead of the Rai 1 broadcast of \u201cPeter: A Man in the Wind,\u201d a monologue by Benigni produced in collaboration with Vatican Media and presented earlier in the day at the MAXXI Museum in Rome.<\/p>\n
The Pope watched several excerpts from the production and remarked, \u201cHow beautiful, it speaks about love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before the screening, he and Benigni spoke about cinema, including Benigni’s own Oscar-winning film\u00a0Life Is Beautiful and Frank Capra\u2019s It\u2019s a Wonderful Life,\u00a0both of which the Pope has named among his four favourite films.<\/p>\n
Their conversation extended to themes central to the monologue: the life of Saint Peter, the works of Dante and Saint Augustine, the Divine Comedy, and the Confessions.<\/p>\n
Also attending the meeting were Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication; Stefano D\u2019Agostini, Director of Vatican Media; and members of Benigni\u2019s creative team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV views excerpts of Roberto Benigni\u2019s upcoming monologue \u201cPeter: A Man in the Wind,\u201d produced in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,9711,569,75,76712],"class_list":["post-326125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cinema","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-pope-leo-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}