Oscar winning US director Martin Scorsese was welcomed by Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican on Wednesday. The two met briefly and Scorsese presented a book to the head of the Catholic Church while they held a film clapperboard before the cameras, the Holy See said. Scorsese, a native New Yorker, was raised in an Italian Catholic family. In addition to his other duties, the pontiff meets with individuals or groups for private audiences almost every day. These include not only key people from the Vatican or foreign bishops, but also public figures. In September the pope met U…