Pope Francis greets actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican in this 2017 file photo. Photo CNS. Arnold Schwarzenegger referred US elected representatives to Catholic teaching in a video released on his Twitter page last weekend.
The actor and former Governor of California referenced his Catholic upbringing in a video posted in the wake of and in response to the events in the US Capitol last weekend, which saw the Capitol building breached by crowds of Donald Trump supporters.
“I grew up Catholic, I went to church, went to Catholic school. I learned the Bible and my catechism,” Mr Schwarzenegger says in the video. “And from those days I remember a phrase that is relevant today: a servant’s heart.”
The actor explained that the phrase means to serve something larger than yourself, saying that what is needed right now is “a public servant’s heart”.