{"id":398778,"date":"2026-08-05T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398778\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:36:12","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-meets-pope-leo-xiv-at-vatican-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398778\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texan actor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/2025\/11\/13\/mcconaughey-for-texas-governor-signs-spark-buzz-heres-what-they-mean\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a> and his wife, Camila Alves, met with Pope Leo XIV during the pontiff&#8217;s weekly public audience at St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica in Vatican City, according to a social media post from Catholic News Service on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>McConaughey, a Uvalde native,\u00a0has been open with his faith and even released a book in 2025 called Poems &amp; Prayers\u00a0that touched on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m a believer. I believe in God,&#8221; he told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/relevantmagazine.com\/culture\/matthew-mcconaughey-on-how-faith-impacts-his-life\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Relevant <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/relevantmagazine.com\/culture\/matthew-mcconaughey-on-how-faith-impacts-his-life\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">magazine<\/a>\u00a0last year. &#8220;I go to church once a week, so Sunday, I go and I pray and I do inventory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The papal visit comes as he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/news\/ni65625470\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">reportedly<\/a> been in Italy filming for Positano, an upcoming Netflix movie starring McConaughey\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/article\/lioness-season-3-zoe-saldana-taylor-sheridan-22369190.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar-winner Zoe Salda\u00f1a<\/a>.\u00a0The movie, which Netflix called a &#8220;romantic caper,&#8221; will see the pair team up for a high-stakes heist on Italy&#8217;s\u00a0Amalfi Coast, according to a July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/positano-news-cast-plot-release-date\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">release<\/a> from the studio.<\/p>\n<p>Positano will also feature Oscar nominee Toni Collette and\u00a0Anora\u00a0breakout Karren Karagulian. Its director,\u00a0Daniel Roher, is known for his documentary work, most notably Oscar-winner Navalny.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has not announced an official release date for the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texan actor\u00a0Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, met with Pope Leo XIV during the pontiff&#8217;s weekly public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,95009,89512,91555],"class_list":["post-398778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-news-faith","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}