Leonardo di Caprio gets an audience with Pope Francis.

Posted on February 2, 2016 by bill

Climat. Quand Leonardo DiCaprio rencontre le pape François. (Climate change): When Leonardo DiCaprio meets Pope Francis.

Le pape reçoit Leonardo DiCaprio pour évoquer l'environnement.

Leonardo DiCaprio a été reçu au Vatican, ce jeudi. La star américaine a parlé avec le pape François de son engagement pour la planète.

Leonardo DiCaprio was received in the Vatican, last Thursday. The American filmstar spoke with Pope Francis on his involvement with the planet.

Le pape François s’est entretenu jeudi matin au Vatican avec l’acteur américain Leonardo DiCaprio. Élevé à Los Angeles (Californie, États-Unis) dans une famille catholique d’origine italienne et allemande, Leonardo DiCaprio se dit athée, alors la star américaine est simplement venue exposer au pape son engagement pour la défense de l’environnement.

Pope Francis spoke to the American actor Leonardo di Caprio in the Vatican on Thursday morning last. Raised in Los Angelés in a catholic family, originally Italian-German, Leonardo diCaprio is a self proclaimed athiest, but the American filmstar simply came to reveal to the Pope his involvement with the protection of the environment.

 

Un entretien d’ordre privé. A private conversation.

Leonardo DiCaprio, 41 ans, est depuis 1998 à la tête d’une fondation qui porte son nom et qui œuvre pour la protection de la diversité, la conservation des océans et des espaces naturels, luttant contre les conséquences néfastes (Ill fated)  des changements climatiques. Le comédien a même reçu le 22 janvier dernier le prix Crystal Award, lors du Forum économique mondial à Davos (Suisse). Un prix venu récompenser son engagement en faveur de l’environnement. Aucun autre détail n’a été donné sur cet entretien d’ordre privé, qui s’inscrit parmi les centaines d’audiences accordées par le pape François à des personnalités de toutes sortes.

Leonardo diCaprio, 41 years old, and since 1998 the head of a foundation, which carries his name and which works for the protection of diversity, the conservation of the oceans and natural environmental areas, fighting against the ill-fated consequences of climate change. The actor himself received the Crystal Award prize on the 22nd January last during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The prize recognises his involvement in favour of the environment. No other detail was given on the Pope’s private talk, which took place among some hundred of audiences accorded by Pope Francis to all sorts of personalities. 

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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