Pope Leo XIV greets Italian actor Sergio Castellitto, who played the traditionalist Cardinal Tedesco in the 2024 film "Conclave," during a meeting with film directors and actors in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 15, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV meets with leaders of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and gives the conference 62 artifacts that will be returned to Indigenous communities in Canada. With the pope, from the left, are: Father Jean Vézina, general secretary of the conference; Bishop Pierre Goudreault of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Quebec, president; and Archbishop Richard Smith of Vancouver, a member of the Canadian Catholic Indigenous Council. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV receives a New York Knicks jersey from director Spike Lee during a meeting with film directors and actors in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 15, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV greets Italian actor Monica Bellucci during a meeting with film directors and actors in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 15, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV arrives for a meeting with film directors and actors in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 15, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV greets Australian actor Cate Blanchett during a meeting with film directors and actors in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 15, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV poses for a photo with officials from the Dicastery for Culture and Education and with film directors and actors in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 15, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV meets with film directors and actors in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 15, 2025. Director Gus Van Sant is second from the left. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
A wampum belt, from what is now Quebec, symbolizing Indigenous people forming an alliance with French Catholic colonizers is seen in this file 2008 file photo from the Vatican Museums' ethnological collection. (CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Museums)
Expert restorers work in the conservation laboratory for ethnological materials at the Vatican Museums in this file photo from 2013. Many of the 100,000 artifacts sent to the Vatican via missionaries over the centuries are made of delicate materials such as ostrich plumes, leather and glass beads. (CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Museums)
