VATICAN Metropolis − Pope Francis, who says he on a regular basis prays “Lord, give me a feeling of humor,” will welcome comedians from about the environment to a cultural function in Italy to “celebrate the splendor of human variety,” the Vatican stated on Saturday.
Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien and Chris Rock will be amongst much more than 100 entertainers at the Vatican on June 14.
The pope “recognizes the substantial impression that the artwork of comedy has on the environment of modern society,” a Vatican assertion claimed.
British comedian Stephen Service provider, co-author of TV’s “The Office,” and Italian comic Lino Banfi will also be at the celebration.
The assembly will consider area on Friday morning, right before the pope travels to Puglia to attend the Team of Seven (G7)leaders’ summit.
“The assembly amongst Pope Francis and the world’s comedians aims to rejoice the magnificence of human variety and to advertise a information of peace, really like and solidarity,” the Vatican claimed.
The viewers has been structured by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Society and Instruction and Dicastery for Conversation.
Goldberg last thirty day period explained in an job interview that she experienced supplied the pope a cameo in “Sister Act 3,” in which she will reprise her comedy job of a singer who requires refuge in a convent and organizes a choir.
“He mentioned he would see what his time was like,” Goldberg stated joking, when asked if the pope had acknowledged her offer.
