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  • 1/4/2024
Shia LaBeouf is considering becoming a deacon after converting to Catholicism. The 'Catholic News Agency' reports that the 'Transformers' star was confirmed into the Catholic Church on Sunday. Speaking with the 'Catholic News Agency', LaBeouf's confirmation sponsor Brother Alexander Rodriguez said that the actor wants to become a deacon "sometime in the future," adding that LaBeouf was inspired to consider the diaconate while filming Abel Ferrara's Padre Pio.

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00:00 Shia LaBeouf is considering becoming a deacon after converting to Catholicism.
00:05 The Catholic News Agency reports that the Transformers star was confirmed into the Catholic
00:09 Church on Sunday.
00:10 Speaking with the outlet, LaBeouf's confirmation sponsor, brother Alexander Rodriguez, said
00:15 that the actor wants to become a deacon "sometime in the future," adding that LaBeouf was inspired
00:20 to do so while filming Abel Ferrara's Padre Pio.
00:23 He just spontaneously said, "I want to become a deacon, and he still feels that way."
00:27 LaBeouf was raised both Jewish by his mother and Christian by his father and had both a
00:32 bar mitzvah and a baptism.
00:34 The actor has said in previous interviews that he was drawn to Catholicism amid alcoholism
00:39 and difficulties in his personal life, including a December 2020 lawsuit filed by his former
00:45 girlfriend FKA Twigs, who accused LaBeouf of "relentless abuse, sexual battery, assault
00:50 and emotional distress."
00:52 The actor previously told The Hollywood Reporter that Mel Gibson had taken him under his wing
00:57 and introduced him to "things like Latin mass."
00:59 "Many years ago I went to his house and told him to his face that his religious views and
01:03 politics were a hindrance to his craft.
01:06 He giggled with grace and told me to read about the Maccabees.
01:09 As I fell forward, he always remained supportive."
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