Both Justin Bieber and Madonna are related to Pope Leo, who is also distant cousins with Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton.

Madonna has found herself unexpectedly linked to the Vatican—this time not through controversy, but through family. According to a new New York Times report by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., the singer is a distant relative of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV.

This family reunion could get really awkward. Turns out that Madonna, whose 1989 video for the song "Like a Prayer" was called "a blasphemy and insult" to the Catholic church, is related to Pope Leo XIV,