1 00:00:02,700 --> 00:00:06,409 The world has stopped turning. The world has stopped turning. 2 00:00:06,783 --> 00:00:08,367 For days now something has been happening 3 00:00:08,409 --> 00:00:10,867 that we haven't seen for a long time. 4 00:00:10,992 --> 00:00:14,034 News and social networks, the front page of newspapers 5 00:00:14,075 --> 00:00:17,492 are not focusing on evil anymore, 6 00:00:17,534 --> 00:00:19,576 but on good. 7 00:00:19,618 --> 00:00:22,659 Not on war and terrorism, but on love. 8 00:00:23,117 --> 00:00:27,783 And all of this thanks to Pius the 13th's heartbreaking love letters. 9 00:00:28,867 --> 00:00:31,034 The world has stopped turning. 10 00:00:31,117 --> 00:00:34,284 The world has stopped turning. To talk about love. 11 00:03:09,699 --> 00:03:11,367 Holy Father, 12 00:03:12,742 --> 00:03:16,201 you accorded an audience to the head of the Vatican press office. 13 00:03:16,742 --> 00:03:19,409 She's outside waiting. 14 00:03:52,618 --> 00:03:54,075 Are you sure? 15 00:04:03,909 --> 00:04:06,992 Holy Father, the Italian Prime Minister is continuing to postpone 16 00:04:07,034 --> 00:04:10,950 legislation on taxing the Vatican and civil unions. 17 00:04:11,618 --> 00:04:14,409 His left-wing supporters are calling for blood. 18 00:04:14,451 --> 00:04:17,075 Many of them claim that you are behind this, 19 00:04:17,117 --> 00:04:20,451 that you are the man who changed the Prime Minister's mind. 20 00:04:20,534 --> 00:04:24,451 - And I think the same thing. - That might be the case. 21 00:04:24,950 --> 00:04:28,159 - How did you do it? - I humiliated him. 22 00:04:28,201 --> 00:04:30,242 You have no idea how many objectives can be obtained 23 00:04:30,284 --> 00:04:32,451 by humiliating ones fellow man. 24 00:04:32,492 --> 00:04:34,659 - But there's a secret to it. - What is it? 25 00:04:34,699 --> 00:04:38,367 The person humiliated can't realize they'd been humiliated. 26 00:04:38,409 --> 00:04:41,451 If you don't mind my saying so, you're diabolical. 27 00:04:41,492 --> 00:04:45,659 You think? People that know me well actually say that I'm a saint. 28 00:04:46,742 --> 00:04:50,117 How did it go with the Patriarch of Moscow? 29 00:04:51,451 --> 00:04:53,367 The Patriarch of Moscow 30 00:04:53,409 --> 00:04:57,159 is more boring than watching golf on television. 31 00:04:57,742 --> 00:05:01,075 So what is our next set of decisions? 32 00:05:05,117 --> 00:05:08,242 Do you remember that on Wednesday you promised to act as a tour guide 33 00:05:08,284 --> 00:05:11,326 in the Vatican museums for a third-grade field trip? 34 00:05:14,742 --> 00:05:19,242 God Almighty, what atrocity can I have committed to deserve that? 35 00:05:19,284 --> 00:05:22,201 I don't know if I'll able to make that appointment, 36 00:05:22,242 --> 00:05:24,909 on Wednesday I have to watch golf on TV. 37 00:05:24,992 --> 00:05:27,909 Holy Father, you don't want to disappoint the children, do you? 38 00:05:27,992 --> 00:05:30,284 Ma'am, it's the children who have disappointed me. 39 00:05:30,326 --> 00:05:32,909 Didn't you like your childhood? 40 00:05:34,159 --> 00:05:37,867 All I remember of my childhood it is one day it wasn't there anymore. 41 00:06:13,783 --> 00:06:15,075 Clothes pin. 42 00:06:16,367 --> 00:06:20,451 Have we found any confirmation for David Tanistone's statements? 43 00:06:20,909 --> 00:06:22,700 I would say so. 44 00:06:23,201 --> 00:06:27,576 His mother had a brief affair with Archbishop Kurtwell 45 00:06:27,618 --> 00:06:29,576 when they were both attending Catholic University 46 00:06:29,618 --> 00:06:31,409 in Washington D.C. 47 00:06:32,242 --> 00:06:34,492 Then they drifted apart. 48 00:06:35,659 --> 00:06:38,950 She, like the devout Catholic that she is, 49 00:06:38,992 --> 00:06:41,492 decided to give birth to her son. 50 00:06:42,534 --> 00:06:46,117 After a few years and oppressed by the grim economic straits 51 00:06:46,159 --> 00:06:48,034 into which she had drifted, 52 00:06:48,783 --> 00:06:52,700 she decided to turn to Kurtwell for help. 53 00:06:53,576 --> 00:06:56,950 Which is how Kurtwell came to know him. 54 00:06:57,742 --> 00:07:00,867 But in the meanwhile, a veritable earthquake 55 00:07:00,992 --> 00:07:03,909 had devastated that man's personality 56 00:07:03,950 --> 00:07:07,992 and the rubble from it collapsed directly onto that young man. 57 00:07:10,451 --> 00:07:13,700 For the rest of the story, we'll have to ask Kurtwell. 58 00:07:14,659 --> 00:07:17,201 I intend to shake things up a little, 59 00:07:17,242 --> 00:07:21,409 and I would like to have you become my personal secretary. 60 00:07:21,534 --> 00:07:25,950 Sister Mary has completed her mission and now, 61 00:07:26,618 --> 00:07:29,950 justifiably, she wants to move on. 62 00:07:30,492 --> 00:07:33,742 - She's completed her mission? - Yes. 63 00:07:33,783 --> 00:07:36,783 The child Pope has become a man. 64 00:07:36,867 --> 00:07:40,783 He once needed a motherly presence, and he now needs a colleague. 65 00:07:44,783 --> 00:07:47,201 What do you think of my proposal? 66 00:07:49,075 --> 00:07:51,326 That I can't accept. 67 00:07:55,159 --> 00:07:56,700 Why not? 68 00:07:57,201 --> 00:08:00,201 Because it would be hypocritical. 69 00:08:13,699 --> 00:08:17,492 - What's hypocritical about it? - I'm a hom... 70 00:08:17,783 --> 00:08:20,451 I'm a homosexual, Holy Father. 71 00:08:25,159 --> 00:08:28,950 And you want to expel all homosexuals from the Church. 72 00:08:28,992 --> 00:08:31,409 Every rule has its exceptions. 73 00:08:31,451 --> 00:08:35,242 But I don't subscribe to the exception that you'd make for me. 74 00:08:35,284 --> 00:08:37,492 I don't subscribe to the rule. 75 00:08:38,201 --> 00:08:41,783 It's a huge mistake not to accept homosexuals. 76 00:08:41,825 --> 00:08:46,451 It's a huge mistake to compare them to pedophiles, the way you do. 77 00:08:47,034 --> 00:08:49,909 An unacceptable generalization. 78 00:08:51,409 --> 00:08:55,992 How can you fail to see, you of all people, Holy Father, 79 00:08:56,034 --> 00:09:01,201 you, the author of those heartbreaking love letters, 80 00:09:01,326 --> 00:09:04,326 that in pedophilia there is only violence, 81 00:09:04,451 --> 00:09:06,034 and in homosexuality there's only love? 82 00:09:06,075 --> 00:09:08,242 You say you don't want to be my personal secretary, 83 00:09:08,284 --> 00:09:11,117 but, in actual fact, you're already doing the job. 84 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:12,534 You offer me some advice. 85 00:09:12,576 --> 00:09:14,618 And that's what a personal secretary does. 86 00:09:14,659 --> 00:09:15,825 But in this case, I don't just want to give the advice. 87 00:09:18,909 --> 00:09:20,117 I want you to accept it. 88 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:24,659 How many things I accept, Gutierrez, and no one notices! 89 00:09:24,699 --> 00:09:27,950 That's a Pope's fate. That's the fate of power. 90 00:09:27,992 --> 00:09:30,699 Try to reason with me: 91 00:09:30,742 --> 00:09:33,992 if I ask you to be my personal secretary, 92 00:09:34,075 --> 00:09:38,075 am I not already revising my own beliefs about homosexuality? 93 00:09:38,117 --> 00:09:42,242 Or do you actually believe I knew nothing about your homosexuality? 94 00:09:42,284 --> 00:09:45,909 Or the fact that you were sexually abused as a child? 95 00:09:46,867 --> 00:09:50,699 I knew that, too. That's why I sent you to Kurtwell. 96 00:09:50,742 --> 00:09:52,742 That's why I now want you working by my side. 97 00:09:52,783 --> 00:09:55,201 Because we need to work on the future. 98 00:09:55,242 --> 00:09:58,992 You need the right motivations to do that and you have those. 99 00:09:59,034 --> 00:10:02,284 The right motivations can move the world. 100 00:10:12,367 --> 00:10:13,825 You changed. 101 00:10:14,699 --> 00:10:17,451 Since you came back from your trip. 102 00:10:18,867 --> 00:10:21,534 In what way have I changed? 103 00:10:21,618 --> 00:10:24,618 You've transformed fear into anger. 104 00:10:27,326 --> 00:10:29,700 Very good, Gutierrez. 105 00:10:34,451 --> 00:10:35,909 Very good. 106 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:39,034 I beg of you, 107 00:12:39,075 --> 00:12:41,159 confide in me... 108 00:12:43,117 --> 00:12:46,451 the wisest thing you have ever learned. 109 00:13:00,867 --> 00:13:02,618 In the end, 110 00:13:02,659 --> 00:13:08,409 more than in God, it is necessary to believe in yourself, Lenny. 111 00:13:23,409 --> 00:13:25,492 Have you got something... 112 00:13:27,825 --> 00:13:29,992 a little better? 113 00:13:32,409 --> 00:13:36,034 That's a banal platitude. 114 00:13:37,159 --> 00:13:42,159 If only you knew how true a banal platitude can be, 115 00:13:42,618 --> 00:13:44,451 my dear colleague. 116 00:13:44,825 --> 00:13:49,950 After all, look at us, we are power. 117 00:13:51,034 --> 00:13:53,742 And power is a banal platitude. 118 00:14:03,242 --> 00:14:06,201 We will be dealing with you one day, Your Holiness. 119 00:14:06,284 --> 00:14:07,992 What do you mean? 120 00:14:08,117 --> 00:14:10,867 You're going to be a saint! I'm perfectly serious. 121 00:14:10,950 --> 00:14:13,867 I don't need any more steps in my career. 122 00:14:15,034 --> 00:14:19,783 Your prayers, Holy Father, your prayers move God. 123 00:14:23,742 --> 00:14:25,201 When? 124 00:14:27,034 --> 00:14:30,326 Let's stick to the facts and skip the memorable account 125 00:14:30,367 --> 00:14:32,867 of what you did at age fourteen 126 00:14:32,909 --> 00:14:35,409 in the room of the gravely sick wife of the custodian 127 00:14:35,492 --> 00:14:37,284 who was suddenly cured. 128 00:14:37,367 --> 00:14:40,700 Now then, here are the simple facts. 129 00:14:41,201 --> 00:14:44,950 Esther and Peter were infertile, sterile, barren. 130 00:14:46,159 --> 00:14:49,992 The young woman confided in you. And you, Holy Father, 131 00:14:50,034 --> 00:14:52,534 you didn't tell her to do what anyone else would have said: 132 00:14:52,576 --> 00:14:53,950 go see a doctor. 133 00:14:53,992 --> 00:14:57,950 No, instead Your Holiness prayed 134 00:14:59,159 --> 00:15:02,825 and Esther became pregnant and she gave birth a beautiful child. 135 00:15:02,867 --> 00:15:07,950 Moreover, it became clear that Sister Antonia was actually 136 00:15:07,992 --> 00:15:11,117 an unworthy woman, an evildoer. 137 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:14,492 And you had the power to remove her from her position, 138 00:15:14,534 --> 00:15:16,783 you had the power to punish her, 139 00:15:16,825 --> 00:15:19,534 all you had to do was to sign a document, 140 00:15:19,576 --> 00:15:22,742 but instead, you chose not to do that. 141 00:15:22,783 --> 00:15:26,409 Instead you chose to pray in the rain, 142 00:15:27,117 --> 00:15:30,534 kneeling on the asphalt at a rest stop on the highway, 143 00:15:30,576 --> 00:15:33,409 and at that moment Sister Antonia 144 00:15:33,451 --> 00:15:37,451 shuffled off the stage thanks to a divine punishment. 145 00:15:37,742 --> 00:15:41,367 Now, these are the things that saints do. 146 00:15:42,534 --> 00:15:48,699 They are moved by a faith so solid that they believe in God, 147 00:15:50,492 --> 00:15:52,825 in the power of God, 148 00:15:52,867 --> 00:15:56,201 before they believe in the power of human beings. 149 00:15:57,659 --> 00:16:01,451 As you see, Holy Father, miracles are more likely to happen. 150 00:16:01,492 --> 00:16:04,075 We only need to keep our ears open. 151 00:16:04,201 --> 00:16:08,075 - Are your ears always open for the Blessed Juana? - Always. 152 00:16:28,326 --> 00:16:33,034 When she was fifteen she went to see the children at the hospital 153 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:35,159 and always brought tangerines with her. 154 00:16:35,242 --> 00:16:37,284 And she didn't care whether they ate them or not. 155 00:16:37,409 --> 00:16:42,117 But she wanted them to peel them and to play at squeezing the peels, 156 00:16:42,159 --> 00:16:43,825 and spray each other with the bright 157 00:16:43,867 --> 00:16:47,034 and unforgettable scent of that fruit. 158 00:16:47,409 --> 00:16:49,699 Then she told the children: 159 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:53,867 I will go away from you and you will go away from me, 160 00:16:53,909 --> 00:16:55,700 but it doesn't matter, 161 00:16:55,742 --> 00:16:59,992 because all that we left on this earth is the scent of goodness. 162 00:17:04,242 --> 00:17:06,075 I could listen for hours. 163 00:17:06,117 --> 00:17:08,242 This story tells us something important. 164 00:17:08,284 --> 00:17:09,492 What? 165 00:17:10,783 --> 00:17:15,451 That goodness, unless it's combined with imagination, 166 00:17:15,492 --> 00:17:18,409 runs the risk of being mere exhibitionism. 167 00:17:18,492 --> 00:17:20,618 How true! How true! 168 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:30,409 If you want to know everything about the Blessed Juana, 169 00:17:30,451 --> 00:17:33,451 there's a wonderful opportunity that we could take advantage of. 170 00:17:33,492 --> 00:17:35,700 You see, every Christmas, the miracle children, 171 00:17:35,742 --> 00:17:39,700 who are now in their fifties, gather at a plaza in Guatemala City 172 00:17:39,742 --> 00:17:41,742 and tell the story of their miracle cures. 173 00:17:41,783 --> 00:17:43,409 I've attended and it was 174 00:17:43,451 --> 00:17:46,075 a very moving and unforgettable experience. 175 00:17:46,117 --> 00:17:49,492 I mean, everyone would be overjoyed to have you there. 176 00:17:49,534 --> 00:17:53,034 - Are you suggesting I spend my Christmas in Guatemala? - Yes. 177 00:17:53,075 --> 00:17:55,783 It would be a memorable gesture. 178 00:17:55,825 --> 00:17:58,618 All right, then, we'll go to Guatemala. 179 00:17:59,326 --> 00:18:02,992 On the understanding that it will be a small and private 180 00:18:03,034 --> 00:18:06,992 get-together, without crowds and without press. 181 00:18:07,409 --> 00:18:10,075 Just us and the miracle children. 182 00:18:10,117 --> 00:18:13,201 It will all be exactly as you wish. 183 00:18:24,117 --> 00:18:25,326 All right, children, 184 00:18:25,367 --> 00:18:30,159 today we are going on tour of the Vatican Museums 185 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:34,242 and I am gonna be your tour guide. 186 00:18:44,576 --> 00:18:48,699 Earlier it was snowing. Now it's raining. 187 00:18:49,576 --> 00:18:50,742 Too bad! 188 00:18:50,783 --> 00:18:54,576 Snow is so much nicer than rain, isn't it? 189 00:18:54,618 --> 00:18:55,867 Yes. 190 00:18:56,492 --> 00:19:02,618 But if it's raining, that can only mean you've been bad children. 191 00:19:04,783 --> 00:19:07,451 - Why? - Why? 192 00:19:08,159 --> 00:19:12,284 Because raindrops are the tears of Christ. 193 00:19:12,783 --> 00:19:17,699 And if Jesus is crying, that can only mean you've made him angry. 194 00:19:26,201 --> 00:19:27,618 Why... 195 00:19:28,034 --> 00:19:33,409 Hey, I was just kidding, have a sense of humor, for Pete's sake! 196 00:19:34,159 --> 00:19:36,117 All right, children, here's what we'll do. 197 00:19:36,159 --> 00:19:39,201 Right now we're all going to eat hamburgers and French fries 198 00:19:39,242 --> 00:19:42,700 and after lunch we'll continue our tour of the museums. 199 00:19:45,159 --> 00:19:46,534 Follow me! 200 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:26,700 Aren't you going to eat hamburgers and French fries? 201 00:20:26,825 --> 00:20:30,700 My mommy wants me to stick to the Mediterranean diet. 202 00:20:32,492 --> 00:20:33,909 I understand. 203 00:20:35,492 --> 00:20:38,783 I don't want a mommy with a beard. 204 00:20:38,825 --> 00:20:41,034 You need to learn to settle for what you get. 205 00:20:41,117 --> 00:20:43,534 I don't want to settle. 206 00:20:46,201 --> 00:20:47,700 You're right. 207 00:20:48,576 --> 00:20:51,451 I don't want to settle anymore, either. 208 00:22:25,825 --> 00:22:27,451 How are you? 209 00:22:29,284 --> 00:22:30,699 Who, me? 210 00:22:31,409 --> 00:22:33,492 I'm always in a good mood. 211 00:22:33,534 --> 00:22:37,700 I've always associated good mood with stupidity. 212 00:22:39,201 --> 00:22:41,576 And not without reason, Your Holiness. 213 00:22:42,034 --> 00:22:44,950 However you can't imagine the amount of energy that comes 214 00:22:44,992 --> 00:22:48,242 from good mood and stupidity. 215 00:22:48,326 --> 00:22:49,742 What did you want to tell me? 216 00:22:49,783 --> 00:22:52,659 I wanted to update you on a survey in the magazine 217 00:22:52,699 --> 00:22:56,534 "Catholic Universe" that I've been publishing for eight years. 218 00:22:57,451 --> 00:22:58,700 What is it about? 219 00:22:58,742 --> 00:23:01,659 We asked a question to a mixed group of people: 220 00:23:01,699 --> 00:23:06,825 if they'd like to attend a sermon of the Pope face to face. 221 00:23:07,326 --> 00:23:11,867 - How many? - 99% of all Catholics. 222 00:23:13,451 --> 00:23:16,201 And would this change things? 223 00:23:16,867 --> 00:23:20,075 No, Your Holiness. It wouldn't change things. 224 00:23:20,742 --> 00:23:23,117 A Pope doesn't change people. 225 00:23:23,159 --> 00:23:29,326 Well, then you're confirming that there is no good reason 226 00:23:29,367 --> 00:23:32,451 for me to appear in public. 227 00:23:32,534 --> 00:23:36,284 No, actually yes, there is a reason. 228 00:23:36,326 --> 00:23:37,742 And what would that be? 229 00:23:37,783 --> 00:23:39,618 If you appear in public, 230 00:23:39,659 --> 00:23:42,700 it would help these people to be in a good mood. 231 00:23:42,742 --> 00:23:45,659 - I'm not a comedian. - That doesn't matter. 232 00:23:45,699 --> 00:23:49,950 It's the show of being there that helps people to be in a good mood. 233 00:23:49,992 --> 00:23:51,699 That's not my duty. 234 00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:54,783 Yes. Yes, it is. 235 00:23:59,201 --> 00:24:01,534 Your Holiness... 236 00:24:02,534 --> 00:24:06,659 You've changed a lot since you began your papacy. 237 00:24:07,659 --> 00:24:10,950 Affliction changes us, Aguirre. 238 00:24:13,659 --> 00:24:15,699 But good mood doesn't. 239 00:24:36,075 --> 00:24:39,742 Accipe anulum de manu Petri 240 00:24:41,950 --> 00:24:48,367 et noveris dilectione Principis Apostolorum dilectionem tuam 241 00:24:48,409 --> 00:24:51,409 erga Ecclesiam roborari. 242 00:25:26,284 --> 00:25:27,326 Amen. 243 00:25:27,367 --> 00:25:30,284 What happened to your hands, our Eminence? 244 00:25:30,326 --> 00:25:32,367 Oh, Holy Father... 245 00:25:33,159 --> 00:25:37,034 The cold in Alaska, when I say Mass in the open air. 246 00:25:37,367 --> 00:25:39,992 Haven't you tried using skin creams? 247 00:25:40,034 --> 00:25:41,492 I'm allergic. 248 00:25:41,534 --> 00:25:44,367 And then there is the rheumatism. 249 00:25:51,699 --> 00:25:54,950 These look like the hands of Christ on the cross. 250 00:25:55,618 --> 00:25:57,742 God blesses you, Holy Father. 251 00:26:00,117 --> 00:26:03,492 I can't even hold a glass any more. 252 00:27:16,126 --> 00:27:19,667 That man's name was Jack Walser, 253 00:27:21,667 --> 00:27:26,167 he was the superintendent of the building where we lived, 254 00:27:30,001 --> 00:27:32,792 before the Lord called me to Him. 255 00:27:34,959 --> 00:27:38,750 He had divided the tenants into two categories, 256 00:27:39,834 --> 00:27:42,084 the natives and the nomads. 257 00:27:42,667 --> 00:27:46,376 My family belonged to the category of the nomads, 258 00:27:46,418 --> 00:27:49,750 because we didn't have enough money to ensure the stability 259 00:27:49,792 --> 00:27:52,418 enjoyed by the natives. 260 00:27:53,376 --> 00:27:58,167 One day, Jack rang our door bell at ten in the morning, 261 00:27:58,917 --> 00:28:01,500 confident that I would be at school. 262 00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:08,750 But that day I was at home in bed with fever. 263 00:28:12,792 --> 00:28:17,126 The door to my room was open 264 00:28:18,792 --> 00:28:22,376 and he stretched out on the little sofa where my father sat 265 00:28:22,418 --> 00:28:24,500 when he listened to the radio. 266 00:28:24,542 --> 00:28:29,334 He drenched it with his wet clothes. 267 00:28:32,459 --> 00:28:38,418 And he, he told me that the party was over for us nomads that, 268 00:28:38,459 --> 00:28:43,126 that landlords had decided to double the rent. 269 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,499 And he said it as if he had something good, 270 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:48,500 something fragrant in his mouth. 271 00:28:52,667 --> 00:29:01,042 And then he gestured for me to come closer and he said to me, 272 00:29:01,084 --> 00:29:04,334 in a tone of voice I'd never heard in my life, he said: 273 00:29:04,376 --> 00:29:06,625 "On your knees". 274 00:29:14,709 --> 00:29:16,251 At last... 275 00:29:18,792 --> 00:29:21,667 he said the most vulgar phrase I've ever heard in my life. 276 00:29:21,709 --> 00:29:22,583 He said: 277 00:29:22,625 --> 00:29:27,376 "There are only two reasons a human being would get down on his knees. 278 00:29:27,709 --> 00:29:31,959 And one is to pray, and the other is to know himself. 279 00:29:42,209 --> 00:29:45,667 I was only twelve years old, Holy Father. 280 00:29:45,959 --> 00:29:48,792 I was twelve years old! 281 00:29:56,667 --> 00:29:59,209 You need to continue, Archbishop. 282 00:29:59,625 --> 00:30:02,500 Your story isn't finished yet. 283 00:30:07,209 --> 00:30:09,499 What... What else do you want to know? 284 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:11,834 What happened afterward? 285 00:30:19,334 --> 00:30:25,126 You want to know whether I, as an adult, became like Jack Walser. 286 00:30:25,167 --> 00:30:27,500 Certainly, that's all you care about. 287 00:30:27,542 --> 00:30:31,042 What do you care about that twelve-year-old boy on his knees 288 00:30:31,084 --> 00:30:33,709 in front of a man with wet clothes 289 00:30:33,750 --> 00:30:37,292 on a chilly day in February in 1955! 290 00:30:37,542 --> 00:30:43,084 We care, Archbishop, about all children. 291 00:30:44,499 --> 00:30:45,959 All of them. 292 00:30:49,251 --> 00:30:50,376 Fine. 293 00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:56,084 Let's get on with it. 294 00:31:00,001 --> 00:31:02,709 Yes, Holy Father, 295 00:31:05,750 --> 00:31:08,499 for the rest of my life... 296 00:31:08,750 --> 00:31:12,750 I've behaved like Jack Walser. 297 00:31:19,292 --> 00:31:21,459 Can that be enough? 298 00:31:38,625 --> 00:31:40,500 Come here, Archbishop. 299 00:32:00,126 --> 00:32:01,834 I've made my decision. 300 00:32:01,959 --> 00:32:04,583 I'm sending you back to the United States. 301 00:32:06,418 --> 00:32:09,499 - Where do you want to go? - To New York. 302 00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:11,334 I want to go home. 303 00:32:12,667 --> 00:32:13,917 Fine. 304 00:32:14,376 --> 00:32:18,292 Holy Father, infinite is your compassion. 305 00:32:18,334 --> 00:32:21,126 Infinite is your capacity for forgiveness. 306 00:32:21,167 --> 00:32:23,500 I have one simple request. 307 00:32:23,542 --> 00:32:24,917 Anything, Your Holiness. 308 00:32:24,959 --> 00:32:29,376 I wanna make sure you really do wanna go home. 309 00:32:30,126 --> 00:32:35,084 So I want you to plant your finger on New York on the globe. 310 00:32:54,583 --> 00:32:56,709 Kechikan, Alaska. 311 00:33:00,418 --> 00:33:02,167 I know the place. 312 00:33:02,834 --> 00:33:04,334 Very nice. 313 00:33:05,167 --> 00:33:07,583 A small town of 8,000 inhabitants 314 00:33:07,625 --> 00:33:11,459 that's so cold that it'll split your fingers. 315 00:33:11,499 --> 00:33:15,292 But in the words of the Nobel laureate Brodsky: 316 00:33:16,376 --> 00:33:19,959 "Beauty at low temperatures is beauty". 317 00:33:24,209 --> 00:33:30,126 Archbishop Kurtwell, your disease has deceived you. 318 00:33:51,667 --> 00:33:55,875 There's a rumor going around that I'm about to leave the Vatican. 319 00:34:01,251 --> 00:34:05,459 You have to admit the rumors that circulate in the Vatican 320 00:34:05,499 --> 00:34:08,792 almost always correspond to the truth. 321 00:34:12,418 --> 00:34:13,959 Where will I go? 322 00:34:14,542 --> 00:34:16,875 Where you've always wanted to be. 323 00:34:16,959 --> 00:34:18,709 With children. 324 00:34:19,334 --> 00:34:21,042 You're an orphan. 325 00:34:21,499 --> 00:34:24,583 Orphans want to stay with children forever. 326 00:34:24,625 --> 00:34:27,042 How do you know I'm an orphan? 327 00:34:27,792 --> 00:34:29,625 I've always known. 328 00:34:29,709 --> 00:34:31,834 How do you know? 329 00:34:31,917 --> 00:34:33,750 It's difficult, 330 00:34:36,042 --> 00:34:40,167 for a saint, to answer all the questions of humanity. 331 00:34:42,499 --> 00:34:45,792 Can I start calling you Lenny again? 332 00:34:46,709 --> 00:34:48,667 Only if I can call you Ma. 333 00:34:48,709 --> 00:34:51,959 Yes, you can call me Ma. 334 00:34:52,834 --> 00:34:54,583 Where will I go? 335 00:34:54,625 --> 00:34:58,917 To Africa, to take Sister Antonia's place. 336 00:34:59,001 --> 00:35:03,459 And there you will be in charge of the other 250 Villages of Goodness. 337 00:35:04,418 --> 00:35:08,251 I'd like to open new ones just for the children. 338 00:35:08,292 --> 00:35:10,292 What do you think? 339 00:35:10,583 --> 00:35:13,418 I think it's a good idea. 340 00:35:14,459 --> 00:35:17,875 In the end, we all have to go back to where we began. 341 00:35:17,917 --> 00:35:21,251 And you, when will you go back to where you began? 342 00:35:21,292 --> 00:35:22,625 Where did I begin? 343 00:35:22,667 --> 00:35:25,459 You began with two hippie parents. 344 00:35:25,917 --> 00:35:28,792 I've stopped searching for my parents. 345 00:35:29,167 --> 00:35:32,001 - I've stopped searching for God. - Never say that again. 346 00:35:32,792 --> 00:35:35,334 The truth is you've never searched. 347 00:35:35,376 --> 00:35:37,834 You've been hiding yourself. 348 00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:45,542 - When do you want me to leave? - Tomorrow morning. 349 00:35:50,042 --> 00:35:52,959 Before you go, if you like, 350 00:35:53,917 --> 00:35:57,001 you can say goodbye to the Cardinal Secretary of State. 351 00:35:59,001 --> 00:36:00,792 So long, saint. 352 00:36:02,209 --> 00:36:03,499 So long, Ma. 353 00:37:17,325 --> 00:37:19,701 Your Holiness, don't you feel well? 354 00:37:19,742 --> 00:37:23,784 No, no. Just a passing discomfort. 355 00:37:23,826 --> 00:37:26,034 - Should I call the doctor? - No, no, no, it's nothing serious. 356 00:37:26,076 --> 00:37:27,617 It's over. 357 00:37:31,199 --> 00:37:32,659 Are you certain you don't want me to call the doctor? 358 00:37:32,701 --> 00:37:34,242 All better now. 359 00:37:36,575 --> 00:37:38,867 Do you believe in God? 360 00:37:42,826 --> 00:37:46,242 I... yes, I do. 361 00:37:46,867 --> 00:37:48,492 I don't. 362 00:37:49,450 --> 00:37:53,076 Those who believe in God don't believe anything. 363 00:37:56,534 --> 00:38:00,242 You already knew I had fallen in love with that woman, didn't you? 364 00:38:00,534 --> 00:38:02,909 Of course you knew it. 365 00:38:02,951 --> 00:38:05,367 I'm an open book to you. 366 00:38:06,450 --> 00:38:11,242 And here we are again at the same age-old question: 367 00:38:11,367 --> 00:38:15,909 who ever said that a man can't love God and a woman at the same time? 368 00:38:15,951 --> 00:38:18,242 That's bullshit. 369 00:38:23,076 --> 00:38:25,283 There's one thing I've never understood about you: 370 00:38:25,367 --> 00:38:28,034 whether you're a Lazio fan like your father 371 00:38:28,076 --> 00:38:30,659 or whether you root for Napoli like I do. 372 00:38:30,701 --> 00:38:32,909 You're unclear on this point. 373 00:38:34,826 --> 00:38:35,951 What? 374 00:38:35,992 --> 00:38:38,992 You want to know what became of Tonino Pettola? 375 00:38:39,826 --> 00:38:44,450 Look, well... Tonino Pettola... what happened is that... 376 00:38:45,450 --> 00:38:47,242 Jesus, what an unseemly thing! 377 00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:49,242 I didn't want to, but the Pope... 378 00:38:49,992 --> 00:38:52,076 Basically, Tonino Pe... 379 00:38:53,492 --> 00:38:55,742 Oh God, I was about to tell you! 380 00:38:55,784 --> 00:38:58,283 No, my friend. You'll have to forgive me. But I... 381 00:38:58,367 --> 00:39:01,367 I can't tell anyone what became of Tonino Pettola. 382 00:39:01,742 --> 00:39:05,450 Forgive me, but I can't even tell you, and you're my best friend. 383 00:39:05,575 --> 00:39:07,575 There are certain secrets so important 384 00:39:07,617 --> 00:39:10,118 that only one person should know them. 385 00:39:10,159 --> 00:39:13,909 Don't resent me for this. I love you like the son I never had. 386 00:39:14,325 --> 00:39:18,659 But I can never reveal to you what became of Tonino Pettola. 387 00:39:22,742 --> 00:39:24,659 Merry Christmas, Girolamo. 388 00:39:39,534 --> 00:39:41,367 You know? You were right. 389 00:39:42,784 --> 00:39:48,200 When an orphan matures, he may discover a fresh youth within. 390 00:39:48,575 --> 00:39:52,409 And at that point, he will have something to say. 391 00:39:54,784 --> 00:39:58,118 You have something to say, 392 00:39:59,534 --> 00:40:04,742 I know it, I feel it, and you will say it. 393 00:40:05,659 --> 00:40:08,325 Your Holiness, you will say it... 394 00:40:08,367 --> 00:40:10,409 you'll say it. 395 00:40:10,450 --> 00:40:11,909 You will say it. 396 00:40:11,951 --> 00:40:14,492 You'll say it. You'll say it. 397 00:40:14,534 --> 00:40:16,742 You'll say it. You'll say it. 398 00:40:16,784 --> 00:40:20,909 You'll say it, you'll say it, you will say it, you'll say it, 399 00:40:20,951 --> 00:40:24,409 you'll say it, you'll say it, you'll say it. 400 00:40:26,826 --> 00:40:31,034 You have a very tight family, Eminence, very affectionate. 401 00:40:32,367 --> 00:40:33,992 It has been a lovely Christmas Eve. 402 00:40:34,034 --> 00:40:35,826 May I be indiscreet, Your Holiness? 403 00:40:35,867 --> 00:40:39,283 And say something that concerns you personally? 404 00:40:39,951 --> 00:40:43,867 - You may. - Your parents abandoned you when you were a child. 405 00:40:43,909 --> 00:40:45,659 Nothing so strange about that, 406 00:40:45,701 --> 00:40:48,118 one might feel constrained to abandon a child 407 00:40:48,159 --> 00:40:50,409 for all sorts of reasons. 408 00:40:51,076 --> 00:40:54,242 There is no evidence to suggest they are dead. 409 00:40:54,742 --> 00:40:58,617 You become one of the most famous people on the planet, 410 00:40:58,659 --> 00:41:02,076 but they do not get in touch with you. 411 00:41:02,742 --> 00:41:04,951 "Why?" I asked myself. 412 00:41:05,659 --> 00:41:07,909 A guilty conscience, perhaps? 413 00:41:08,784 --> 00:41:11,159 But the prospect of a reconciliation 414 00:41:11,199 --> 00:41:15,534 should be more powerful than any sense of guilt. 415 00:41:17,199 --> 00:41:19,784 So what explanation did you come up with, then? 416 00:41:19,826 --> 00:41:21,951 A very simple one. 417 00:41:22,034 --> 00:41:23,951 They were hippies. 418 00:41:24,076 --> 00:41:27,409 Presumably they hold the same libertarian and progressive 419 00:41:27,450 --> 00:41:30,951 opinions today as they had then. 420 00:41:30,992 --> 00:41:34,283 And you become the worldwide champion 421 00:41:34,325 --> 00:41:38,992 of ideas that run completely counter to theirs. 422 00:41:39,283 --> 00:41:41,076 So you're saying the reason they didn't reach out to me 423 00:41:41,118 --> 00:41:44,325 is a difference in political opinion? 424 00:41:44,450 --> 00:41:49,826 I'm saying that whoever had the courage to abandon a child 425 00:41:50,492 --> 00:41:55,076 might also find the strength to repudiate him. 426 00:42:14,534 --> 00:42:17,992 Holy Father, the plane is on the tarmac, waiting for us. 427 00:42:18,784 --> 00:42:21,200 Whenever you like, it's all ready. 428 00:42:24,283 --> 00:42:27,034 We aren't going to Guatemala after all. 429 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,701 The miracle people of the Blessed Juana will be so disappointed. 430 00:42:32,742 --> 00:42:34,575 Yes, they will. 431 00:42:34,617 --> 00:42:38,076 But in time they'll understand. 432 00:42:51,492 --> 00:42:56,200 All I ever wanted when I was a child was to be a cardinal. 433 00:42:59,409 --> 00:43:01,909 What about you, Holy Father, 434 00:43:01,992 --> 00:43:05,367 what did you want to be when you were a child? 435 00:43:06,617 --> 00:43:08,909 I wanted to be a child. 436 00:43:13,118 --> 00:43:15,575 And now where is God? 437 00:43:17,325 --> 00:43:19,242 In Venice. 438 00:43:19,826 --> 00:43:21,534 In Venice? 439 00:43:22,076 --> 00:43:24,701 And where does he live there? 440 00:43:26,742 --> 00:43:29,909 That's something I have to find out. 441 00:43:51,742 --> 00:43:54,200 - Sorry, sorry. - Please. 442 00:43:54,242 --> 00:43:56,575 - Excuse me, sir. - Please. 443 00:43:56,617 --> 00:43:58,534 Thank you. Thank you. Excuse me. 444 00:44:20,492 --> 00:44:22,076 Holy Father... 445 00:44:23,325 --> 00:44:28,450 I got you something stupid, 446 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,409 it has no real worth, 447 00:44:32,450 --> 00:44:35,575 but I saw it and I thought of you. 448 00:44:51,199 --> 00:44:55,409 It says here you can see more than 100 metres. 449 00:45:00,951 --> 00:45:06,200 Holy Father, the manager of the restaurant and all the staff 450 00:45:07,826 --> 00:45:11,199 wonder if you'd be willing to give a benediction. 451 00:45:14,492 --> 00:45:16,784 They're all behind you waiting. 452 00:45:19,283 --> 00:45:20,992 If you were to turn around, 453 00:45:21,034 --> 00:45:25,199 for them it would be something of a minor miracle. 454 00:45:40,325 --> 00:45:41,659 No. 455 00:45:44,951 --> 00:45:47,575 That would be an exhibition. 456 00:47:24,118 --> 00:47:29,325 When they asked her: "Who is God?" 457 00:47:36,951 --> 00:47:39,867 "God is a line that opens", 458 00:47:39,909 --> 00:47:42,367 replied the Blessed Juana, 459 00:47:45,575 --> 00:47:48,367 she was just fourteen years old, 460 00:47:57,784 --> 00:48:01,534 and no one understood what it was she was trying to say. 461 00:48:08,784 --> 00:48:10,659 And then, 462 00:48:10,701 --> 00:48:16,784 all the children asked the dying Blessed Juana dozens of questions: 463 00:48:24,534 --> 00:48:27,242 are we dead or are we alive? 464 00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,951 Are we tired or are we vigorous? 465 00:48:44,992 --> 00:48:47,409 Are we healthy or are we sick? 466 00:48:58,617 --> 00:49:01,534 Are we good or are we bad? 467 00:49:06,909 --> 00:49:10,450 Do we still have time or has it run out? 468 00:49:17,701 --> 00:49:19,701 Are we young or are we old? 469 00:49:25,118 --> 00:49:27,492 Are we clean or are we dirty? 470 00:49:34,367 --> 00:49:36,992 Are we fools or are we smart? 471 00:49:48,784 --> 00:49:51,076 Are we true or are we false? 472 00:49:55,951 --> 00:49:58,909 Are we rich or are we poor? 473 00:50:04,701 --> 00:50:07,492 Are we kings or are we servants? 474 00:50:13,867 --> 00:50:17,118 Are we good or are we beautiful? 475 00:50:24,659 --> 00:50:27,159 Are we warm or are we cold? 476 00:50:32,575 --> 00:50:36,034 Are we happy or are we blind? 477 00:50:42,492 --> 00:50:45,867 Are we disappointed or are we joyful? 478 00:50:53,909 --> 00:50:56,951 Are we lost or are we found? 479 00:51:03,159 --> 00:51:06,450 Are we men or are we women? 480 00:51:10,659 --> 00:51:15,409 "It doesn't matter", replied the Blessed Juana 481 00:51:16,784 --> 00:51:20,701 as she lay dying at the age of just eighteen. 482 00:51:21,659 --> 00:51:23,409 And she added, 483 00:51:25,617 --> 00:51:30,450 on the verge of death, with tears in her eyes: 484 00:51:34,951 --> 00:51:38,575 "God does not allow Himself to be seen. 485 00:51:40,701 --> 00:51:42,826 God does not shout. 486 00:51:43,742 --> 00:51:45,951 God does not whisper. 487 00:51:46,992 --> 00:51:49,076 God does not write. 488 00:51:49,701 --> 00:51:51,492 God does not hear. 489 00:51:52,784 --> 00:51:54,450 God does not chat. 490 00:51:56,283 --> 00:51:59,159 God does not comfort us." 491 00:52:01,492 --> 00:52:03,992 And all the children asked her: 492 00:52:05,617 --> 00:52:07,575 "Who is God?" 493 00:52:17,492 --> 00:52:20,450 And Juana replied: 494 00:52:23,742 --> 00:52:25,909 "God smiles". 495 00:52:29,534 --> 00:52:33,200 And only then did everyone understand. 496 00:52:47,826 --> 00:52:53,951 And now, I beg all of you, smile. 497 00:52:59,034 --> 00:53:00,409 Smile. 498 00:53:11,826 --> 00:53:13,159 Smile. 499 00:53:18,367 --> 00:53:20,283 That's right, smile. 500 00:54:34,701 --> 00:54:36,992 It's nothing, it's nothing! 501 00:54:53,784 --> 00:54:56,534 One day I will die... 502 00:55:02,283 --> 00:55:05,409 and I will finally... 503 00:55:05,701 --> 00:55:08,742 be able to embrace you all. 504 00:55:10,159 --> 00:55:11,951 One by one. 505 00:55:16,951 --> 00:55:18,159 Yes. 506 00:55:19,199 --> 00:55:20,951 I will. 507 00:55:24,826 --> 00:55:27,701 I have faith that I will. 508 00:55:51,701 --> 00:55:53,534 Call the doctor.