{"id":69710,"date":"2016-01-28T23:54:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T04:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69710"},"modified":"2016-01-28T23:54:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T04:54:51","slug":"dicaprio-greets-pope-in-italian-discusses-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/28\/dicaprio-greets-pope-in-italian-discusses-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"DiCaprio greets pope in Italian, discusses environment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VATICAN CITY –\u00a0Actor Leonardo DiCaprio brushed up his Italian to greet Pope Francis at the Vatican Thursday, discussed their shared concern over the environment and gave the pontiff a check for his charitable works.<\/p>\n

“Your Holiness, thank you for granting me this private audience with you,” DiCaprio said in Italian as he arrived in the Apostolic Palace and kissed the pope’s ring.<\/p>\n

Later, in English, DiCaprio offered Francis a book of works by the 15th-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, and showed him the reproduction of Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” that had hung over his crib as a child. The triptych, which DiCaprio has referred to in the past, depicts Adam and Eve in the first panel, a teeming landscape in the centre panel, and finally a vision of hell.<\/p>\n

“As a child I didn’t quite understand what it all meant, but through my child’s eyes it represented a planet, the utopia we had been given, the overpopulation, excesses, and the third panel we see a blackened sky that represents so much to me of what’s going in in the environment,” DiCaprio told the pope.<\/p>\n

DiCaprio said he thought the painting also represented Francis’ environmental concerns.<\/p>\n

Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si (Praise Be) has been embraced by environmentalists for its denunciation of the world’s fossil fuel-based economy and its demand for greener energy sources.<\/p>\n

An assistant then handed Francis an envelope and explained it was a check for the pope to use for charity works “close to your heart.”<\/p>\n

Di Caprio, nominated for an Oscar for his role in “The Revenant,” is a longtime environmental campaigner who in 1998 launched his Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to support initiatives aimed at sustainability.<\/p>\n

He recently addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, announcing the foundation was donating another $15 million to environmental projects and pleading with business leaders to battle global warming.<\/p>\n

Francis gave DiCaprio a leather-bound copy of Laudato Si and his earlier document, The Joy of the Gospel.<\/p>\n

DiCaprio was accompanied by his father, George DiCaprio, and Milutin Gatsby, global fundraising chair for the foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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