{"id":263207,"date":"2026-01-25T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263207\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T12:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:39:10","slug":"harry-styles-explains-why-he-was-at-the-papal-conclave-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263207\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles Explains Why He Was At The Papal Conclave Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrom partaking in marathons across Tokyo and Berlin to popping up outside of the papal <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/conclave\/\" id=\"auto-tag_conclave\" data-tag=\"conclave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conclave<\/a> last year, three-time Grammy-winning musician <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harry-styles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-styles\" data-tag=\"harry-styles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Styles<\/a> has embarked on plenty of side quests outside the recording studio recently. Now, the Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally singer-songwriter is explaining how he ended up in the throng outside <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/pope-leo-xiv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pope-leo-xiv\" data-tag=\"pope-leo-xiv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a>\u2018s election at the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI was getting a haircut in Rome,\u201d\u00a0the Eternals star told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zZB1Md_GGb4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio 1<\/a> in a new interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI heard all these people start shouting, \u2018Habemus papam! Habemus papam!\u2019 People just running down the street,\u201d Styles recalled, referencing the Latin phrase for \u201cWe have a pope.\u201d \u201cSo the guy cutting my hair stopped cutting my hair, and he was like, \u2018Habemus papam! There\u2019s a new pope!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe concluded, \u201cSo then he finished up, and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m a five minutes\u2019 walk from there,\u2019 so I walked over there. It was wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBack in May 2025, eagle-eyed fans spotted Styles \u2014 who was wearing sunglasses, a baseball cap and blue jacket \u2014 in the Vatican City crowd. An image of  the British pop star quickly went viral as social media users theorized why he was in attendance. Held between May 7 and 8, the 2025 conclave took place following the death of predecessor Pope Francis\u2019 death; Cardinal\u00a0Robert Francis Prevost was appointed, becoming the first supreme pontiff hailing from the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStyles announced his long-awaited return to music last week, with his fourth studio album to be released March 6. The first single off of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, \u201cAperture,\u201d dropped two days ago, in conjunction with the announcement of his <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/harry-styles-tour-1236693208\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 tour<\/a>, which will feature residencies in seven cities as well as an extended stay at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/madison-square-garden\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Square Garden<\/a>\u00a0in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From partaking in marathons across Tokyo and Berlin to popping up outside of the papal conclave last year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,130029,93,6437,61,60,6318],"class_list":{"0":"post-263207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-conclave","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-harry-styles","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-pope-leo-xiv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}