Pope Leo XIV received a host of Hollywood celebrities on Saturday, underscoring the role of cinema for marginalised communities and voices.
"It comforts me to think that cinema is not just 'moving pictures'; it is putting hope in motion," Leo said.
"One of the most precious contributions of the cinema is precisely that of helping the spectator to return to himself, to look with new eyes at the complexity of his own experience, to see the world again as if for the first time, and to rediscover, in this exercise, a portion of that hope without which our existence is not full," the Pontiff stressed.
Describing film as "a popular art in the noblest sense, intended for an
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