Seal the room.
Eminence Tedesco.
Dean Lawrence!
How are you?
I'm well, Goffredo.
- We've missed you. - Yes.
No doubt.
Are you well?
True.
Yes, I believe so.
Eminence Tedesco, may I?
You're welcome. See you later, Eminence.
Bless all those
who cannot share this meal with us
and help us, O Lord, as we eat and drink,
to remember the hungry,
the thirsty,
the sick,
and the lonely,
and the sisters who prepared this food for us.
Through Christ Our Lord,
Amen.
Dean!
Come.
Thank you.
And we haven't even begun yet.
Did I hear correctly, Afghanistan?
Yes.
A marvelous testament to the Universal Church,
don't you think?
So many men of different cultures, races,
bound together by their faith in God.
Look around you.
Notice how everyone gravitates to their fellow countrymen.
Italians over here.
Spanish speakers there
- English there. - Yes.
French.
When we were boys and the Tridentine Mass
was still the only true liturgy of the world
we would all have been speaking Latin.
But then your fellow liberals insisted we get rid of that
"dead" language.
Without Rome, without the tradition of Rome...
So what, the next Pope must be Italian?
Why not?
We haven't had an Italian Pope for more than forty years.
Forty years, Tommaso.
Can you seriously imagine the alternative?
Excuse me, I must circulate amongst our brothers.
The abyss calls out.
Thank you, Sisters.
Dear Brothers in Christ,
at this moment of great uncertainty
in the history of the Holy Church,
we must think first of the late Holy Father,
whose brilliant pontificate was a gift from God,
now we must ask our Lord to send us a new Holy Father
through the pastoral solicitude of the cardinal fathers.
And we must pray to God for that loving assistance,
and ask Him to guide us
to the right choice.
My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?
And I, Irumbus Cardinal Nakitanda
I promise, I vow and I swear, so God will help me
and these Holy Gospels of God, which I touch with my hand.
Out, everyone.
Cardinal brothers,
we will now proceed to the first ballot.
You will find in front of you your ballot paper.
On the top half is written, I elect as Supreme Pontiff.
Please make sure your hand-writing is legible.
I call as my witness Christ the Lord who will be my judge
that my vote is given to the one who, before God,
I think should be elected.
The first vote is cast for Cardinal Tedesco.
The second vote is cast for Cardinal Tedesco.
Cardinal Tremblay.
And finally, Cardinal Benitez.
The results of the first ballot are...
Cardinal Adeyemi, twenty-one votes.
Cardinal Tedesco, eighteen votes.
Cardinal Bellini, seventeen votes.
Cardinal Tremblay, sixteen votes.
Cardinal Lawrence, five votes.
Other cardinals assigned a single vote, thirty-one votes.
My brother cardinals,
that concludes the first ballot.
No candidate having achieved
the necessary majority of seventy-two votes,
we shall adjourn for the evening,
and resume voting in the morning.
Thank you.
The results of the second ballot are...
Cardinal Adeyemi, thirty-four votes.
Cardinal Tedesco, twenty-five votes.
Cardinal Bellini, eighteen votes.
Cardinal Tremblay, sixteen votes.
Cardinal Lawrence, nine votes.
Cardinal Benitez, two votes.
My brothers, in accordance with the Apostolic Constitution
we proceed immediately to the next vote.
Thank you.
The results of the third ballot are...
Cardinal Adeyemi, fifty-two votes.
Cardinal Tedesco, thirty votes.
Cardinal Tremblay, ten votes.
Cardinal Bellini...
Brothers.
Please.
Thank you.
Cardinal Bellini, nine votes.
Cardinal Lawrence, five votes.
Cardinal Benitez, four votes.
The results of the fifth ballot are...
Cardinal Tremblay, forty votes.
Cardinal Tedesco, thirty-four votes.
Cardinal Bellini, thirteen votes.
Cardinal Lawrence, eleven votes.
Cardinal Adeyemi, nine votes.
Cardinal Benitez, six votes.
My brothers...
My brothers, that concludes the fifth ballot.
No candidate having achieved the necessary majority
we shall resume voting tomorrow morning.
If I may join this amiable dialogue.
I want to remind you that
the names of eight cardinals have been obscured.
I assume the dean can tell us who they are?
Let them tell us themselves
here and now.
Here and now!
No, I won't do that.
Judas.
Traitor.
Well then.
Here at last we see the result of the doctrine of relativism
so beloved by our liberal brothers!
A relativism that sees all faiths and passing fancies
accorded equal weight.
So that now, when we look around us, we see the homeland
of the Holy Roman Catholic Church
dotted with the mosques and minarets
of the prophet Muhammad!
We tolerate Islam in our land,
but they revile us in theirs.
We nourish them in our homelands.
But they exterminate us.
How long will we persist in this weakness?
They are literally at our walls right now.
What we need now is a leader who understands
that we are facing a true religious war.
Do not touch me!
Yes, a religious war.
We need a leader who will put a stop to the drift
that has gone on almost ceaselessly for the past fifty years.
How long will we have to persist in this weakness,
how long?
We need a leader...
The thing you're fighting is here...
inside each and every one of us,
if we give in to hate now,
if we speak of "sides"
instead of speaking for every man and woman.
This is my first time here, amongst you,
and I suppose it will be my last.
Forgive me, but these last few days
we have shown ourselves to be small petty men,
we have seemed concerned only with ourselves,
with Rome,
with these elections, with power.
But these things are not the Church.
The Church is not tradition.
The Church is not the past.
The Church is what we do next.
We pray,
O Father, so that we may guide
and watch over Your Church.
Give to us, Your servants,
the blessings of intelligence, truth and peace,
so that we may strive to know Your will,
and serve You with total dedication.
For Christ our Lord.
Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?
I accept.
And by what name do you wish to be called?
Innocent.
Eminence, His Holiness won't get robed.
With permission.
Gentlemen, let's clear the room.