Hollywood might want to hire the pope as a consultant

The Catholic Church may seem like an unlikely consultant for Hollywood, an industry far more inclined to cut seven-figure checks to McKinsey in search of “revenue optimization” or “growth strategies.” But when even a Sydney Sweeney film can’t fill seats at the theater, you start to wonder if it’s time for divine intervention.

Pope Leo XIV recently met with a slew of Hollywood stars and made a heartfelt case for the future of cinema. As reported by America magazine, the American-born pope waxed lyrically about theaters, calling them “the beating hearts of our communities” and describing them as “a threshold where the heart opens up and the mind becomes receptive to things not yet imagined.”