--- description: The pair exchanged gifts title: Pope Francis and Leonardo DiCaprio Exchanged Climate Gifts image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt63a824e2dcba6eb0/69887b200a4a22454a9c81e9/leonardo-dicaprio-pope.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [The Vatican](/tag/the-vatican/) ## The Vatican Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Pope Francis and Leonardo DiCaprio Meet at the Vatican by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) and [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/) Jan 28, 2016 4:18 PM CUT  Pope Francis shakes hands with Leonardo DiCaprio at the Vatican on Jan. 28, 2016. Pope Francis shakes hands with Leonardo DiCaprio at the Vatican on Jan. 28, 2016.L'Osservatore Romano/Reuters by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) and [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/) Jan 28, 2016 4:18 PM CUT Pope Francis gave Leonardo DiCaprio an audience at the Vatican Thursday afternoon, bringing the two luminaries together [in one place](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/pope-meets-fellow-green-campaigner-leonardo-dicaprio-36566811 "undefined"). DiCaprio, who [won an award](http://time.com/4186381/leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change-fossil-fuels/ "undefined") at the World Economic Forum this year for his environmental philanthropy, started by giving the Pontiff a book with works by the artist Hieronymus Bosch inside. He opened to a page with the triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” which he said hung over his crib. “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 Francis. DiCaprio also handed the Pope a check for his charity. Along with two other items, Pope Francis also gave DiCaprio a climate-themed volume: a [leather-bound version](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/pope-meets-fellow-green-campaigner-leonardo-dicaprio-36566811 "undefined") of his encyclical on the environment. [_Laudato Si.’_](http://time.com/3925843/pope-francis-encyclical-climate-change-appeal/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4198078/pope-francis-leonardo-dicaprio/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4198078/pope-francis-leonardo-dicaprio/"},"headline":"Watch Pope Francis and Leonardo DiCaprio Meet at the Vatican","datePublished":"2016-01-28T16:18:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T11:59:08.421Z","description":"And they exchanged gifts","url":"https://time.com/4198078/pope-francis-leonardo-dicaprio/","keywords":["The Vatican","Pope Francis topic","Leonardo DiCaprio"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt63a824e2dcba6eb0/69887b200a4a22454a9c81e9/leonardo-dicaprio-pope.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt63a824e2dcba6eb0/69887b200a4a22454a9c81e9/leonardo-dicaprio-pope.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pope Francis shakes hands with actor Leonardo DiCaprio at the Vatican","caption":"Pope Francis shakes hands with Leonardo DiCaprio at the Vatican on Jan. 28, 2016.","creditText":"L'Osservatore Romano/Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/the-vatican/","name":"The Vatican"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4198078/pope-francis-leonardo-dicaprio/","name":"Watch Pope Francis and Leonardo DiCaprio Meet at the Vatican"}}]}] ```