. Lenny Belardo (Law) has been elected Pope, the first American to do so. Throughout ten episodes, we learn the reasons how he achieved the Catholic Church’s highest position at such a relatively ...

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The Young Pope Season 1 is a satirical drama television series, that follows Lenny Belardo who becomes the first American pope in history and proceeds to rearrange things to suit his own wants after ...

The final scene of the series premiere of The Young Pope (HBO, Sundays, 7 pm) features newly appointed Pope Pius XIII Lenny Belardo (Jude Law) confessing to a Vatican priest that because he does not ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT Newly elected Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) is a young American named Lenny Belardo. He was elected because the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Voiello (Silvio Orlando), figured he ...

Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.

The upcoming series tells the controversial story of the beginning of Pius XIII’s pontificate. Born Lenny Belardo, he is a complex and conflicted character, so conservative in his choices as to border ...