Spike Lee is taking the New York Knicks to the Vatican!

The Oscar-winning director and diehard Knicks fan attended an event at the Vatican, where Pope Leo XIV invited creators around the globe.

“When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges,” Pope Leo XIV said. “It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.”

The He Got Game director was prepared with a custom Knicks jersey for the religious reader as he attended the event over the weekend. Expand Tweet

“This is disrespectful af he is from Chicago!!!” one fan commented on the Knicks jersey before the Knicks official account wrote back , “He went to Villanova.”

“The Nova Pope receives the gesture and blesses the Nova3,” anot

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