<p>Hollywood star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/every-blessing-to-her-and-her-film-shia-labeouf-reacts-after-olivia-wilde-doubles-downs-on-claims-against-actor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shia LaBeouf</a> shared a significant update with fans about his conversion to Catholicism and said he&#8217;s just months away from being confirmed in the religion he said helped him find faith in a dark time in his life.</p>
<p>During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-dont-really-know-what-it-is-to-be-a-man-actor-shia-labeouf-discusses-cultural-absence-of-masculinity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36-year-old</a> actor&#8217;s recent appearance on <a href="https://www.churchpop.com/shia-labeouf-hes-preparing-for-confirmation-in-rcia/">ChurchPOP</a>, English editor Jacqueline Burkepile asked LaBeouf — who will soon play the late mystic St. Padre Pio in the upcoming film &#8220;Padre Pio&#8221; — where he&#8217;s at in his spiritual journey. LaBeouf said he will soon be receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in RCIA [Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults],&#8221; LaBeouf said. &#8220;I&#8217;m scheduled to be confirmed in seven months and I hope Bishop [Robert] Barron comes down to confirm me. But we&#8217;ll see. I&#8217;m in RCIA right now and once a week I get on the horn with Fr. Bobby and we talk shop.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Last year, the actor appeared on &#8220;Bishop Barron Presents: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjxKG4mR3U4">Conversations at the Crossroads</a>&#8221; and talked about studying for the Pio role which he said led him to convert, admitting that he always had a belief, but no connection.</p>
<p>LaBeouf said he was &#8220;never an atheist,&#8221; but instead agnostic and credited &#8220;Pio&#8221; with saving his &#8220;life&#8221; at a time he described as &#8220;nuclear&#8221; because roles had dried up. In 2021, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/talent-agency-caa-no-longer-representing-actor-shia-labeouf">LaBeouf</a> was facing a variety of allegations, including abuse.</p>
<p>In preparation for the role he believed would finally restart his career, the director told LaBeouf he would need to do some research and go to a seminary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shia-labeouf-discusses-role-that-lead-to-his-conversion-to-catholicism-saved-my-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire previously reported</a>. LaBeouf ended up going to a seminary near his home and met Brother Jude, who told him if he&#8217;s going to play Pio, he needs to read the Gospel. LeBeouf started doing just that at a time when he felt hopeless.</p>
<p>&#8220;I had a gun on the table. I was outta here,&#8221; the &#8220;Holes&#8221; star admitted. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to be alive anymore when all of this happened. Shame like I had never experienced before — the kind of shame that you forget how to breathe. You don&#8217;t know where to go. You can&#8217;t go outside to get like, a taco. &#8230; But I was also in this deep desire to hold on.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It stops being this prep of a movie and starts being something that feels beyond all that,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The reach-out had happened. I was already there; I had nowhere to go. This was the last stop on the train. There was nowhere else to go — in every sense.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know now that God was using my ego to draw me to Him,&#8221; LaBeouf continued. &#8220;Drawing me away from worldly desires. It was all happening simultaneously.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shia-labeouf-discusses-role-that-lead-to-his-conversion-to-catholicism-saved-my-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shia LaBeouf Discusses Role That Led To His Conversion To Catholicism, &#8216;Saved My Life&#8217;</a></strong></p>

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