Just when you thought the world couldnt get any weirder, you find out the newly elected Pope Leo XIV is reportedly related to Madonna. And Justin Bieber. And Angelina Jolie. And, sure, Hillary Clinton. The mans lineage reads like a fever dream of pop culture trivia and a holy family reunion none of us saw coming.The discovery comes from a New York Times Magazine deep dive by Henry Louis Gates Jr., host of Finding Your Roots, in collaboration with American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami. Together, they traced the pontiffs ancestry back more than 15 generations. See on InstagramWhile the article highlights everything from enslaved ancestors and Spanish nobility to scandalous affairs and free women of color, the part that lit up the internet focused on one 17th-century Canadian ancestor, Louis Boucher de Grandpr, who apparently makes the pope distantly related to an entire gaggle of A-listers.That includes the Material Girl herself, whose long, messy history with the Catholic Church makes this family connection feel like divine camp. (This is the woman, after all, who once asked Pope Francis to meet up one day to discuss some important matters, noting shed been excommunicated three times.) (@) Also on the list is Justin Bieber, whos been increasingly vocal about his faith, albeit through a slightly different brand of worship than his cousin in the Vatican.In total, the pope has dozens of famous cousins, including Pierre and Justin Trudeau, Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie, and Jack Kerouac. According to the report, theyre all connected through the kind of tangled colonial migration patterns that remind us how small and strange the world really is.While some Catholic traditionalists might not know what to make of a pope whose relatives have sung Like a Prayer and starred in Spring Breakers, others are already declaring him the Peoples Pontiff. Hey, at least hes not happy with the current administration, so at least we have that to celebrate.