Martin Scorsese meets pope at general audience - Arts Culture and Style. Italian-American directing great met Pope Francis at his weekly general audience Wednesday.
Father Antonio Spadaro, undersecretary of the Dicastery for culture and education, called the encounter the "(continuation) of a dialogue bet... (ANSA) Scorsese has imbued many of his films, even the Mob epics, with Catholic themes, and memorably depicted Jesus in his 1988 drama The Last Temptation of Christ.