We don't really know what all this people have in common, A television mogul Oprah Winfrey, fast-talking
Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel and Academy Award winner Matt Damon?
They all been invited to a special audience with Pope
Francis in the Vatican this coming fall.
The powerful trio, along with a handful of other show
business heavyweights, have made it onto an exclusive shortlist to meet with
the pontiff in order to discuss ways to improve the portrayal of the Catholic
Church in Western media.
Emanuel, 54, the younger brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emmanuel, will be joined at the audience by his colleague at William Morris
Endeavor talent agency Patrick Whitesell,
Also on the list of invitees for the high-level meeting with
the 266th Vicar of Christ is the 44-year-old Bourne franchise star Matt Damon,
movie and TV producer Brian Grazer, 64, and DreamWorks and Geffen Records
founder David Geffen, 78.
Pope Francis' keen interest in entertainment may come as a
surprise to many considering that in a May, the 78-year-old leader of the
billion-strong Catholic Church told an Argentine newspaper that he has not
watched TV in 25 years.
It’s a promise that I made [to] the Virgin of Carmen on the
night of July 15, 1990. I told myself: “It’s not for me,”’ he said in an
interview with La Vos del Pueblo.
This will not be the first time that the Argentine-born
pontiff rubs shoulders with Hollywood's elite.
This past January, the Pope granted director and
humanitarian Angelina Jolie a private audience at the Vatican following the
screening of her latest film, Unbroken.
WME declined to comment on whether Emanuel, who heads the
entertainment agency together with Whitesell, will attend the meeting with the
Pope.
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