{"id":248748,"date":"2023-09-13T04:32:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=306280"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:15:22","slug":"a-holy-crossover-in-real-life-sylvester-stallone-and-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-holy-crossover-in-real-life-sylvester-stallone-and-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"A holy real-life crossover: Sylvester Stallone and the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The best crossovers are the ones you would have never imagined in your life. Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Archie and the Punisher. Godzilla<\/a> and Charles Barkley. And now, Sylvester Stallone and the Pope. No, it’s not that Sly is preparing a new movie where the leader of the Catholic Church has to engage in fisticuffs with Satan; rather, they have met, playfully teased a boxing match in the Vatican<\/strong>, and the world has wondered, “How did we get here?”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Last Friday, Sylvester Stallone, the man behind ‘Rocky,’ ‘Rambo,’ and ‘The Expendables,’ was at the Vatican<\/a>. And of course, Pope Francis couldn’t miss the opportunity to meet a personal idol. Had you ever imagined the Pope setting aside his cassock, cracking open a beer, and enjoying Rocky’s fight against Mr. T in ‘Rocky III’? I hadn’t either\u2026 until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sylvester Stallone began by thanking the Pope for the brief one-and-a-half-minute meeting, but the one who seemed more excited wasn’t the action hero. “The honor is mine; we grew up with your movies,” Pope Francis said, surprising the actor and director, who didn’t see that coming. Stallone must have thought, “Hey, when else in life will I have the chance to exchange a few boxing punches with a global religious leader?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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