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El jueves pasado el papa León XIV recibió al actor y director italiano Roberto Benigni en el Palacio Apostólico del Vaticano.

El encuentro tuvo como eje central la presentación en primicia de fragmentos del nuevo monólogo del artista: Pietro, un uomo nel vento (Pedro, un hombre en el viento), una producción que se estrenará en la televisión italiana el 10 de diciembre por Rai1.

El ganador del Oscar llegó al Vaticano acompañado por representantes de Vatican Media y de la productora Stand By Me, como Paolo Ruffini, Stefano D’Agostini, Giampaolo Rossi y Simona Ercolani. Allí mostró al pontífice escenas de su monólogo dedicado a la figura de San Pedro.

“Qué bonito, habla de amor”, comentó el sumo pontífice tras ver los fragmentos del proyecto.

Durante la audiencia privada, ambos conversaron ampliamente sobre el apóstol que inspiró el nuevo trabajo de Benigni. El papa León XIV, quien tiene un notable interés en el cine y la literatura, dialogó también con el artista sobre Dante Alighieri, San Agustín, la Divina Comedia y las Confesiones.

Otro punto de diálogo fue el famoso filme La vida es bella (1997), la película de Benigni ganadora de tres premios Óscar y que León XIV ha incluido entre sus filmes favoritos.

El monólogo Pietro, un uomo nel vento, presentado horas antes en el Museo MAXXI de Roma, constituye una aproximación poética a la vida de San Pedro.

El título alude al pasaje evangélico en el que Jesús “sopla” sobre sus discípulos (Juan 20,22), evocación que también remite al Génesis. Con este recurso simbólico, Benigni busca mostrar a Pedro como un individuo de matices: negó a Cristo pero luego se convirtió en la “roca” de la Iglesia— guiado por la gracia y el impulso espiritual.

Asimismo, no es la primera vez que Roberto Benigni acude al Vaticano. Tal como recuerdan fuentes italianas citadas por Aleteia, su relación con la Santa Sede se remonta a finales de los años noventa. En 1999, visitó al papa Juan Pablo II para mostrarle La vida es bella.

Décadas después, en mayo de 2024, Benigni cerró con un discurso festivo la primera Jornada Mundial de los Niños en la Plaza de San Pedro, un evento presidido por el papa Francisco.

Allí animó a miles de niños a “abrir los ojos, soñar y derrotar dragones”, mezclando humor, poesía y referencias a Dante, reflejo de su estilo único de divulgación cultural.

Como reveló CNN el 12 de noviembre de 2025, el pontífice hizo pública recientemente una selección de sus cuatro películas favoritas del siglo XX. La más antigua de ellas es It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), el clásico de Frank Capra que narra la intervención de un ángel para ayudar a un hombre a redescubrir el sentido de su vida.

Otra de sus películas predilectas es The Sound of Music (1965), el musical dirigido por Robert Wise que sigue a una joven novicia que llega como institutriz a una familia austríaca poco antes del ascenso del nazismo.

El pontífice también mencionó Ordinary People (1980), el drama dirigido por Robert Redford que retrata el duelo y las heridas emocionales de una familia tras la muerte de uno de sus hijos.

Finalmente, su lista incluye La vida es bella (1997), la obra maestra escrita, dirigida y protagonizada por Benigni. El drama combina humor, tragedia y un mensaje profundo de amor de un padre a su hijo en medio del horror del Holocausto.

Estas preferencias cinematográficas han sido interpretadas como una ventana al pensamiento del pontífice, quien ha expresado su deseo de profundizar en el diálogo entre la Iglesia y el mundo del cine, “explorando cómo la creatividad artística puede iluminar la experiencia humana y transmitir valores esenciales”, según un comunicado.

Former President Joe Biden, when he served as a Delaware senator, railed against foreign narco-terrorists flooding the U.S. with highly addictive substances, calling for an «international strike force» against the drug traffickers in a fiery 1989 speech. 

«Let’s go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force. There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists and they must know it,» then-Sen. Biden said in an 1989 video speech addressing then-President George H.W. Bush’s efforts to combat the narcotics flooding U.S. streets. 

The remarks have resurfaced on social media as the Trump administration currently faces outrage from Democrats over its strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean. 

Biden’s address was billed as the Democrat Party’s official response to then-President H.W. Bush’s Sept. 5, 1989, address on his administration’s efforts to tackle the crack cocaine epidemic and rampant use of cocaine, C-SPAN footage reported. Bush had announced that the administration would double federal assistance to state and local law enforcement to tackle the drug problem, $65 million emergency assistance to nations such as Colombia to «fight against the cocaine cartels,» an overall $1.5 billion increase in drug-related federal spending on law enforcement and other initiatives. 

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Biden, in the Democrat Party’s response, called for «another D-Day» to end the war on drugs. 

«The president says he wants to wage a war on drugs, but if that’s true, what we need is another D-Day, not another Vietnam, not another limited war fought on the cheap and destined for stalemate and human tragedy,» Biden said in his response. 

Biden railed that the H.W. Bush administration was failing to take stronger actions on drugs at a time when cocaine from Colombia flooded the nation and U.S. cities were rocked by the crack epidemic that persisted through the 1980s and early 1990s, when crystal meth and heroin became the drugs of choice. 

«We speak with great concern about the drug problem in America today, but we fail to appreciate or address it for what it really is, the number one threat to our national security,» Biden said during his 1989 address on the war on drugs. «It affects the readiness of our army, the productivity of our workers and the achievement of our students and the very health and safety of our families.»

«America is under attack, literally under attack by an enemy who is well financed, well supplied and well armed and fully capable of declaring total war against a nation and its people, as we’ve seen in Colombia. Here in America, the enemy is already ashore, and for the first time, we are fighting and losing the war on our own soil,» Biden continued before arguing the U.S. should «go after the drug lords where they live.»

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Fox News Digital reached out to Biden’s office Friday asking whether he stands by his 1989 address or has any additional comment to include, but did not immediately receive a response. 

A second kinetic strike targets Venezuelan cartels threatening U.S. security. (Trump/Truth Social)

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has come under fire for carrying out a series of military strikes on boats suspected of trafficking narcotics from Venezuela in the waters off of Central and South America. The administration has carried out at least 22 fatal strikes on the boats since September, killing dozens of suspected drug traffickers. 

The administration has defended the strikes, saying the U.S. is engaged in an «armed conflict» with drug cartels after the groups evolved into transnational terror organizations.

Trump has said the strikes are part of an effort to curb drugs flooding into the U.S., while experts have weighed in that the pressure on Venezuela is likely also to force Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s ouster and end his regime in the country. 

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Democrats have taken issue with a pair of strikes on Sept. 2 against an alleged drug boat from Venezuela. The White House confirmed the military carried out an initial strike on the boat before firing off a second that killed two suspected traffickers, sparking Democrats to claim the administration committed potential war crimes. 

President Donald Trump has said the strikes are part of an effort to curb drugs flooding into the U.S.  (Yuri Gripas/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

«If the reports are true, Pete Hegseth likely committed a war crime when he gave an illegal order that led to the killing of incapacitated survivors of the U.S. strike in the Caribbean,» Nevada Democratic Sen. Sen. Jacky Rosen said in a statement earlier in December. 

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Several Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee told Fox News Digital that the Trump administration has been well within its rights to act against Maduro’s regime. They added that they’re eager for more information after several strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug boats and Trump’s heightened rhetoric targeting Maduro.

Trump campaigned on ending the flow of narcotics flowing across U.S. borders in 2024, vowing after his election win to deploy the Navy to assist in the effort. 

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«To stop the deadly drugs that are poisoning our people, I will deploy the U.S. Navy to impose a full fentanyl blockade on the waters of our region.…The drug cartels are waging war on America, and we will destroy those cartels!» Trump wrote on Truth Social a day before his inauguration.

 Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.