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Sylvester Stallone’s recent Italian getaway took an exciting turn when he was handed the keys to the Vatican. Stallone posted about the experience on Instagram, sharing a picture of him holding five key rings with multiple keys on each, claiming he could now open every door in Vatican City. "Very rare and special moment.

The Pope and the Prince of Reggaeton.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Master documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, whose “Sacro Gra” won the Venice Golden Lion in 2013, is back on the Lido with “In Viaggio,” a doc about Pope Francis’ travels in which the director creates a counterpoint between archival footage and images that Rosi shot himself. Variety has been given access to an exclusive clip (above) from the film, which premieres in Venice on Sept. 5. In the first nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis made 37 trips visiting 53 countries, focusing on his key issues: poverty, migration, the environment, solidarity and war. Intrigued by the fact that two of Francis’s trips – the first to the refugees landing in the Sicilian island of Lampedusa; the second in 2021 to the Middle East – so closely mirrored the itineraries of the director’s “Fuocoammare” (Fire At Sea, 2016) and “Notturno” (2020), Rosi follows the Pope’s Stations of the Cross. “He sees what he sees, hears what he says,” the press notes point out, and interweaves archival footage of Francis’ travels with images taken by Rosi himself and recent historical events.

Angelina Jolie and daughter Zahara returned to the Vatican seven years after their famous visit to the holy city. The pair were spotted on Wednesday in the Italian city-state, which is surrounded by Rome, taking in Vatican Museums together and enjoying some mother-daughter time. The 47-year-old actress looked Summery in a white dress, sunglasses and beige slippers while Zahara, 17, wore a brown T-shirt, a black miniskirt and white trainers.

Russell Crowe is enjoying an incredible family holiday with his girlfriend Britney Theriot, 31, his sons Charles, 18, and Tennyson, 16, and his mother Jocelyn in Rome, Italy, and couldn't help but share an incredible story with his fans on social media.MORE: Russell Crowe shares heartbreaking family news with his fansOn Tuesday, he took to Twitter to reveal that his mother had been moved to tears after feeling the presence of her late husband, Russell's father John, and pleaded with fans to "look, call and visit" their parents and "show them love".There’s noise and birds , but you can hear the unmistakable refrain as it floats up to us… pic.twitter.com/hp1oINTBZlRussell shared a video taken during the family's visit to the Vatican"A very special experience as a family yesterday. Got to walk through the Vatican Museum by ourselves.

Gladiator during a recent trip to Rome.The actor took to social media to share photos of his family holiday, stopping at the Colosseum to quote the iconic 2000 film in Italian.“Quello che facciamo in vita, riecheggia nell’eternità,” the actor tweeted alongside four photos of the inside of the Coliseum, which translates to “What we do in life echoes in eternity,” a quote from the film.Take a look at the photos here:quello che facciamo in vitariecheggia nell'eternità pic.twitter.com/1BIkfjqMhF— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) July 19, 2022Where am I now ? pic.twitter.com/weGRGKATd5— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) July 19, 2022Taking the kids to see my old office pic.twitter.com/uySmnOWHvo— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) July 18, 2022During his trip, Crowe also visited the Vatican Museum with his family with no other visitors there, sharing a story about his parents.“My mum had walked these corridors with my father 20+ years ago with the thousands of tourist that flock here daily and make it the third most popular museum globally,” he wrote.“This time, with arrangements in place, we pushed her in a wheelchair down those same corridors. No tourist crowd, just us.

Four years after a Catholic man was hounded out of the San Diego Church for being gay, he met Pope Francis last month and spoke at a conference at the Vatican. Aaron Bianco,  a professor of theology at the University of San Diego and a pastoral associate at St. John the Evangelist Church in the Diocese of San Diego, received death threats from right-wing Catholic organisations and had “no fags” spray painted on a wall in his office at the parish.

Jason Momoa has apologised for breaking the rules at the Vatican by taking photographs.Posting on his Instagram account on Saturday (May 14), the Aquaman star appeared in a workout video in which he addressed the photos he took inside the Sistine Chapel, where the use of mobile phones and cameras is forbidden.“the cage is off i’m free to roam 6weeks since surgery WE WRAPPED ITALY,” he wrote, referring to his time filming the upcoming Fast X.“just want to send my absolute admiration for the Italians and this beautiful country. want to send apologize for any disrespect i love your culture and history.

Jason Momoa is apologizing for taking a number of photos and videos inside the historic Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, as photography is not allowed inside the church. However, it seems that the actor, who is currently dating Eiza González, was not aware of the rules and posted all about his visit while being in Italy.The Hollywood star was visiting the country, filming some scenes for the upcoming ‘Fast & Furious’ movie and revealed he was excited to finally have some time to explore the history and culture of Italy, and while visiting the Sistine Chapel, he encountered some fans, thrilled to take pictures with him.“It’s my last day in Rome, and I just love you and Italy.

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong authorities arrested a Roman Catholic cardinal, a singer and at least two others on Wednesday on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China's national security, reports said.Cardinal Joseph Zen, singer-actress Denise Ho, lawyer Margaret Ng and scholar Hui Po-keung were detained by Hong Kong’s National Security Police, the U.K.-based human rights group Hong Kong Watch said.The arrests were apparently related to their roles as trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which provided legal aid to people who took part in 2019 pro-democracy protests that were quashed by security forces, the group said. The fund closed in 2021, it said.Scores of pro-democracy activists have been arrested under a sweeping National Security Law imposed on the city by Beijing in 2020 following the demonstrations.

Pope Francis has said was considering visiting Kyiv as he condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching a “savage” war. Speaking after his arrival in Malta, he delivered his most pointed and personalised denunciation yet of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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ROME -- The Vatican and an Italian Catholic bishop on Wednesday protested a performance at Italy’s Sanremo music festival that featured a “profane” faux baptism on stage, lamenting in particular that it was broadcast on public television.On the opening night of the annual song contest, a tattooed, bare-chested and barefoot singer named Achille Lauro gyrated and grabbed his crotch as he sang “Domenica” (“Sunday”), backed up by singers from the Harlem Gospel Choir. He finished by kneeling on stage, hands clasped in front of him as if in prayer, and poured water from a bowl over his forehead.Sanremo Bishop Antonio Suetta said the performance contained “words, attitudes and gestures that are not just offensive to religion, but to human dignity.”In a statement, Suetta said he considered not saying anything, knowing that his protest would only draw attention to the performance.

Deutsche Welle reports.The OutInChurch initiative, which launched on Instagram last week, has launched a Change.org petition celebrating the diversity of its members and offering a number of ways the Catholic Church can modernize its approach to LGBTQ Catholics.“Our group is diverse. It includes people who in the past have courageously and often single-handedly dared to come out in an ecclesiastical context,” the petition states.“But it also includes people who have only now decided to take this step and those who cannot or do not want to take this step for various reasons.

ROME -- Pope Francis has long lamented that he can't walk around town unnoticed like he used to before becoming pope. But he seems to have nevertheless kept his sense of humor after he was caught on camera making an unannounced visit to a Rome record shop this week.Francis wrote a note to the Vatican reporter who happened to be in the right place at the right time Tuesday evening when the pope slipped out of the Vatican to bless the newly renovated Stereo Sound shop near the Pantheon.Javier Martinez-Brocal, director of the Rome Reports news agency, filmed Francis leaving the shop, in footage that went viral and even got written up in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.Martinez-Brocal wrote the pope a note afterward, explaining that he wasn’t a paparazzo and regretting Francis can't move around unnoticed anymore, but adding that the story provided a much-needed dose of good news for a world inundated with tragedy.“I won’t deny that it was (bad luck) that after taking all the precautions, there was a journalist waiting for someone on the taxi line,” Francis replied.

In a development that Catholic Church observers consider to be unprecedented, a high-level Vatican official apologized last week to LGBTQ people and to the Mt. Rainier, Md., based LGBTQ Catholic group New Ways Ministry for removing from a Vatican open forum website a link to an LGBTQ supportive video on New Ways Ministry’s website.

Only Conor McGregor would decide to get his son baptised at the Vatican in Rome.

Only Conor McGregor would decide to get his son baptised at the Vatican in Rome.

son Rian, who was born in May, the third child of the 33-year-old Irish pugilist and his partner Dee Devlin.The often feisty McGregor beamed brightly as he walked through St.

The Pope will not visit Glasgow for the COP26 climate conference, it has been revealed.

David and Victoria Beckham's son Brooklyn and his fiancée Nicola Peltz are currently holidaying in Italy and on Wednesday the couple, alongside the actress' parents, met Pope Francis at the Vatican.MORE: Brooklyn Beckham shares nude shower picture with fiancée Nicola PeltzTaking to Instagram, Nicola shared several pictures of her and Brooklyn's tour of the Vatican and surprised fans by sharing a video featuring Pope Francis.WATCH: Nicola's mother meets Pope FrancisIn the brief clip, the Pope

EXCLUSIVE: A group of 200 refugees and immigrants, some newly arrived from Afghanistan, attended a special Vatican screening of the discovery+ documentary Francesco Monday night, and later met with Pope Francis himself.

priest who says he was abused by shamed Cardinal O’Brien has called for a secret Vatican report into the allegations to be released. Brian Devlin, 61, was one of four priests who accused the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh of sexual misconduct in 2013.

 Kim Kardashian is assuring concerned fans that she did, in fact, adhere to the dress code at the Vatican, even though she showed up in a skin-tight lace dress.The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star showed a lot of skin when she visited the Vatican with Kate Moss earlier this week, causing many of her fans to question if the Sistine Chapel--which is known for their strict dress code--let her inside.

Up to code! After visiting the Vatican in a skin-baring Barragán lace dress, Kim Kardashian caused quite the fuss with fashion police. 

Kim Kardashian West is enjoying a slice of la dolce vita! The 40-year-old mother of four took a trip abroad to Rome, Italy, this past week, taking in the sites, dining on the delicacies, and sporting some chic fashions.

Kim Kardashian West is enjoying a slice of la dolce vita! The 40-year-old mother of four took a trip abroad to Rome, Italy, this past week, taking in the sites, dining on the delicacies, and sporting some chic fashions. The reality star took to Instagram on Thursday to share that she and supermodel Kate Moss even enjoyed a private tour of the Vatican, showing off some photos from the exclusive event. «We had the most incredible experience touring Vatican City @vaticanmuseums.

Avert your eyes, Pope Francis!

Kim Kardashian West steps out in style. Tuesday was no different when the mother of four was spotted in a skintight, off-the-shoulder dress with cut-outs on both hips that she paired with nude sandal heels and trendy sunglasses. The 40-year-old reality star wore the standout look to the Vatican, where she was joined by her assistant, Tracy Romulus, Kate Moss and her 18-year-old daughter, Lila Grace Moss Hack.

Pope Francis had an extra special visitor at his weekly general audience meetings at the San Damaso courtyard in The Vatican on Wednesday afternoon (June 23).

While Pope Francis is usually the star at Vatican gatherings, Spider-Man, or at least an Italian who dresses up like the character, was the attention-grabber among the public lined up in rows during the pontiff’s weekly Wednesday audience.

Spider-Man gifted the 84-year-old pontiff his very own Marvel Comics character mask as the two living legends shook hands at the end of the weekly audience in the Vatican’s San Damaso Courtyard.The comic book and blockbuster film icon — dressed head-to-toe in his signature body-con red, black and blue uniform — was seated in the official “VIP section” of the audience before being introduced to a smiling Pope Francis.Buzzkill alert: The man behind the Spidey mask at the meet-and-greet was

violate the Lateran Treaty, signed by the Vatican City and Italy in 1929, which recognised Vatican City as an independent state.

Easter postage stamp.Babrow sued the Vatican City State’s telecommunications office in a Rome court last month, alleging it was wrongfully profiting off her creativity and was violating the original intent of her artwork. The lawsuit, which is seeking nearly 130,000 euros in damages, said the Vatican never responded officially to Babrow’s attempts to negotiate a settlement after she discovered it had used her image without her consent and then allegedly sold it.“I couldn’t believe it.

Read More: Vatican says Catholic Church cannot bless “sinful” same-sex unionsAt the time, German theology professors opposed the statement, saying it was “marked by a paternalistic air of superiority and discriminates against homosexual people and their life plans.”In response, German priests arranged a series of services starting on May 10 for same-sex couples to have their unions blessed in a Catholic church, CBS News reports.“In view of the refusal of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the

Sir Elton John has slammed the Vatican’s refusal to bless same-sex marriages. The 73-year-old musician – who married David Furnish in 2014 – has taken aim at the Vatican and Pope Francis after it was announced on Monday (15.