Save the Steel star Mario Lopez I will never forget the meeting Pope Leo XIV.
“When I was in Italy, I was working for the Winter Olympics, then we had a honeymoon after entering Florence and Milan, Rome,” said Lopez, 52, he told himself. Us Weekly on Friday, May 1, while attending the Calamigos Ranch Resort & Spa’s Worldwide Hotels accreditation celebration. “I have used certain channels to meet the Holy Father.”
He continued, “We should go to mass. It was unbelievable. I will never forget it. He blessed my cross and me.”
Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, is the first pope born in the United States. He became head of the Catholic Church and governor of Vatican City on May 8, 2025, following the death of Mr. Pope Francis at the age of 88.
Lopez has always been open about his Catholic faith, he said Us on Friday that he “has never been reluctant to talk about it.”
“I don’t want to push it in any way, but I’m not shy when I’m asked and I think it’s important for the family and setting a framework and having a good foundation,” explained Lopez. “Father Jim our friend … I talked to him Stanley Tucci today because he was in the movie Conclave.”
She added, “My children go to a Catholic school. It was important to us that our children have a faith-based education. So they love it. It’s great. And my daughter goes to a Catholic school for girls. So it works well for us.”
After the appointment of Pope Leo XIV, Catholic churches throughout the country experienced an influx of believers, in The New York Times. This Easter, the Archdiocese of Detroit welcomed 1,428 new Catholics into the church – the highest number of new members the church has welcomed in 21 years, per jurisdiction. Another diocese, from Houston, Texas, to Des Moines, Iowa, has faced a similar situation.
“In our age of uncertainty, and in our age of great anxiety, thirst and hunger for God and the stability that faith brings to people’s lives,” the Archbishop. Mitchell Thomas Rozanski Louis, Missouri, he said The New York Times in March, adding that his congregation is reporting numbers they haven’t seen since 2016.
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“I think technology has divided us. I think Covid has just widened that divide,” he added. “We realize many of our society’s problems, especially anxiety and depression, are caused by that isolation.”
Lopez said Us saying that he was “reading it” he reports that many people are turning to the Catholic religion during the social and political upheavals, adding that he thinks they are “great.”
“In a world that’s always changing and things can be scary, it’s always nice to lean on faith and something bigger than yourself,” he continued, “that can guide you in ways to give you comfort.”
