1 00:00:19,969 --> 00:00:21,835 You're all talking about miracles 2 00:00:22,263 --> 00:00:25,847 awakenings, tricks, deception, resurrection 3 00:00:26,351 --> 00:00:27,808 the second coming of Christ. 4 00:00:28,519 --> 00:00:32,889 Nonsense, all of it, which the Holy See unequivocally rejects. 5 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:37,314 The photograph that sparked your imagination is from two years ago. 6 00:00:37,820 --> 00:00:40,528 Someone wanted to play a practical joke on us 7 00:00:40,740 --> 00:00:42,857 a joke in rather bad taste. 8 00:00:42,951 --> 00:00:44,613 Lies, Sofia! Lies! 9 00:00:45,036 --> 00:00:47,904 We are fairly certain that the intensive care room 10 00:00:48,289 --> 00:00:50,281 at the Venice hospital is empty. 11 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:51,991 Pius XIII is no longer there. 12 00:00:52,752 --> 00:00:54,618 I deny it categorically. 13 00:00:55,004 --> 00:00:56,791 So what became of him, then? 14 00:00:57,215 --> 00:00:58,922 Did he meet the same end 15 00:00:59,133 --> 00:01:01,671 - as Francis II? - That is a deliberate provocation 16 00:01:01,844 --> 00:01:04,962 and as you all know, the Holy See never responds to provocations. 17 00:01:05,139 --> 00:01:06,139 Thank you. 18 00:04:24,630 --> 00:04:25,666 How am I? 19 00:04:27,550 --> 00:04:28,550 Dazzling. 20 00:04:30,428 --> 00:04:34,763 - I've missed you. - I am and always will be your friend. 21 00:04:36,642 --> 00:04:37,974 This is comforting. 22 00:04:42,273 --> 00:04:43,354 Are you nervous? 23 00:04:43,441 --> 00:04:47,606 When I want, Gutierrez, I know how to take the stage. 24 00:04:49,572 --> 00:04:50,608 I know. 25 00:05:08,841 --> 00:05:10,878 The girls who snubbed us 26 00:05:11,052 --> 00:05:15,262 the boys who deserted us, the strangers who ignored us 27 00:05:15,890 --> 00:05:18,598 the parents who misunderstood us 28 00:05:20,436 --> 00:05:22,974 the employers who rejected us 29 00:05:23,147 --> 00:05:25,685 the mentors who doubted us 30 00:05:27,652 --> 00:05:28,893 the bullies who beat us 31 00:05:30,071 --> 00:05:32,279 the siblings who mocked us 32 00:05:32,990 --> 00:05:35,448 the friends who abandoned us 33 00:05:37,161 --> 00:05:39,778 the conformists who excluded us 34 00:05:42,124 --> 00:05:44,491 the kisses we were denied 35 00:05:46,087 --> 00:05:48,750 because no one saw us. 36 00:05:54,095 --> 00:05:57,554 They were all too busy turning their gaze elsewhere 37 00:05:57,974 --> 00:06:01,138 while I was directing my gaze at you. 38 00:06:03,187 --> 00:06:04,849 Only at you. 39 00:06:06,107 --> 00:06:08,941 Because I am one of you. 40 00:06:20,037 --> 00:06:22,324 Sorrow has no hierarchy. 41 00:06:23,624 --> 00:06:28,915 Suffering is not a sport, there is no final ranking. 42 00:06:31,549 --> 00:06:35,793 Tormented by acne and shyness 43 00:06:35,886 --> 00:06:40,472 by stretchmarks and discomfort, by baldness and insecurity 44 00:06:41,058 --> 00:06:43,516 by anorexia and bulimia 45 00:06:43,978 --> 00:06:46,516 by obesity and diversity 46 00:06:46,981 --> 00:06:49,189 reviled for the colour of our skin 47 00:06:49,567 --> 00:06:53,060 our sexual orientation, our empty wallets 48 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,441 our physical impairments 49 00:06:55,906 --> 00:06:58,740 our arguments with our elders 50 00:06:59,368 --> 00:07:02,156 our inconsolable weeping 51 00:07:02,621 --> 00:07:06,285 the abyss of our insignificance 52 00:07:06,667 --> 00:07:08,659 the caverns of our loss 53 00:07:08,919 --> 00:07:11,161 the emptiness inside us 54 00:07:11,422 --> 00:07:16,008 the recurring, incurable thought of ending it all 55 00:07:16,177 --> 00:07:19,386 nowhere to rest, nowhere to stand 56 00:07:19,555 --> 00:07:21,387 nothing to belong to. 57 00:07:21,557 --> 00:07:23,719 Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! 58 00:07:27,313 --> 00:07:28,313 Yes... 59 00:07:30,191 --> 00:07:32,023 That is how we felt. 60 00:07:33,110 --> 00:07:35,022 And just like you 61 00:07:36,030 --> 00:07:37,646 I remember it all. 62 00:07:39,408 --> 00:07:44,494 But it no longer matters that the world took issue with us. 63 00:07:45,831 --> 00:07:50,667 For now it is us who shall take issue with the world. 64 00:07:51,170 --> 00:07:53,253 We will no longer tolerate 65 00:07:53,339 --> 00:07:55,456 being named as the problem. 66 00:07:56,425 --> 00:08:01,637 Because in point of fact, they are the problem, we are the solution. 67 00:08:01,889 --> 00:08:04,882 We, who have been betrayed and abandoned 68 00:08:05,267 --> 00:08:09,307 rejected and misunderstood, put aside and diminished. 69 00:08:09,647 --> 00:08:12,731 "There is no place for you here" 70 00:08:13,317 --> 00:08:15,934 they told us with their silence. 71 00:08:16,654 --> 00:08:19,271 "Then where is our place?" 72 00:08:19,949 --> 00:08:22,942 We implored them with our silence. 73 00:08:26,247 --> 00:08:29,035 We never received that reply. 74 00:08:30,543 --> 00:08:32,535 But now we know, yes 75 00:08:33,462 --> 00:08:35,044 we know our place. 76 00:08:37,425 --> 00:08:39,041 Our place is here. 77 00:08:42,513 --> 00:08:44,846 Our place is the Church. 78 00:08:46,142 --> 00:08:49,135 Cardinal Biffi said it first 79 00:08:49,562 --> 00:08:52,305 and in an astonishingly simple way: 80 00:08:54,733 --> 00:08:58,067 "We are all miserable wretches 81 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,610 whom God brought together to form a glorious Church." 82 00:09:04,660 --> 00:09:05,660 Yes... 83 00:09:06,662 --> 00:09:09,120 we are all miserable wretches. 84 00:09:09,707 --> 00:09:12,074 Yes, we are all the same. 85 00:09:13,252 --> 00:09:16,245 And yes, we are the forgotten ones. 86 00:09:19,175 --> 00:09:20,882 But no longer. 87 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:26,676 From this day forth, we shall no longer be forgotten. 88 00:09:27,349 --> 00:09:30,592 I assure you, they will remember us. 89 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,308 Because we are the Church. 90 00:09:48,454 --> 00:09:49,661 What's wrong? 91 00:09:52,416 --> 00:09:53,532 Nothing. 92 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:57,331 Second thoughts? 93 00:09:59,715 --> 00:10:01,251 I just don't understand. 94 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:02,961 Understand what? 95 00:10:07,473 --> 00:10:08,884 What it is we want. 96 00:10:18,275 --> 00:10:19,607 Lenny's body... 97 00:10:20,945 --> 00:10:22,652 that's what we want. 98 00:10:24,031 --> 00:10:25,397 Dead or alive. 99 00:10:27,409 --> 00:10:30,902 We won't rest until we find his body. 100 00:10:31,539 --> 00:10:32,620 Why? 101 00:10:33,290 --> 00:10:37,250 Because for me, it's like a body of Christ. 102 00:10:39,713 --> 00:10:41,329 Isn't it the same for you? 103 00:10:42,591 --> 00:10:45,629 You must realise that if you go through with it 104 00:10:46,387 --> 00:10:49,221 you probably won't be allowed to keep working here. 105 00:10:49,765 --> 00:10:52,428 So, it's not a good idea to go to the police? 106 00:10:52,726 --> 00:10:55,764 A good idea is one that minimises damages 107 00:10:56,313 --> 00:10:58,475 and maximises profits. 108 00:10:59,233 --> 00:11:01,520 Outside of here, they call it capitalism. 109 00:11:02,903 --> 00:11:06,317 But we've been practicing it since the time of the catacombs. 110 00:11:27,845 --> 00:11:29,336 Why did you do it? 111 00:11:29,805 --> 00:11:33,094 You told me that true punishment isn't served in prison 112 00:11:33,309 --> 00:11:34,800 but rather in one's soul. 113 00:11:36,687 --> 00:11:39,646 I got to thinking, though, that prison is the perfect place 114 00:11:39,732 --> 00:11:41,098 to wrestle with one's soul. 115 00:11:41,150 --> 00:11:46,236 So, let's archive the entire incident and get back to work, Sofia. 116 00:11:46,405 --> 00:11:47,486 No. 117 00:11:50,993 --> 00:11:52,450 I have decided to resign. 118 00:11:54,622 --> 00:11:56,204 - I'm leaving. - But why? 119 00:11:57,416 --> 00:11:59,954 Please, Eminence, don't make me say it. 120 00:12:01,003 --> 00:12:03,586 You are the most intelligent man in the world 121 00:12:04,173 --> 00:12:06,290 I am sure you can imagine why. 122 00:12:07,718 --> 00:12:11,211 Why do you all make the same mistake? 123 00:12:12,264 --> 00:12:13,380 What's that? 124 00:12:13,599 --> 00:12:17,309 Sooner or later, you all fall in love. 125 00:15:20,035 --> 00:15:23,028 Please, do with me what you will 126 00:15:23,497 --> 00:15:24,954 but let the children go. 127 00:15:41,557 --> 00:15:45,096 I would have much preferred our first encounter 128 00:15:45,185 --> 00:15:48,849 to have been under more pleasant circumstances. 129 00:15:49,189 --> 00:15:52,102 And instead we are burdened with a difficult and urgent mission. 130 00:15:53,402 --> 00:15:55,940 We have six children and a priest to save. 131 00:15:57,573 --> 00:16:01,237 - The police... - This is not a job for the police. 132 00:16:03,036 --> 00:16:04,698 This is a job for the Church. 133 00:16:11,587 --> 00:16:15,581 Do you know who was more afraid that I would wake up than you? 134 00:16:16,174 --> 00:16:17,174 Who? 135 00:16:18,010 --> 00:16:19,091 The caliph. 136 00:16:23,932 --> 00:16:27,425 Let's analyse the situation, Your Holiness. 137 00:16:30,439 --> 00:16:34,308 I fall into a coma and I become a living saint. 138 00:16:36,570 --> 00:16:41,486 We witness the first signs of a Catholic fanaticism. 139 00:16:42,576 --> 00:16:46,411 Until now, fanaticism has been the exclusive prerogative of the caliph. 140 00:16:47,831 --> 00:16:52,166 He feels we've usurped his territory and so he attacks us. 141 00:16:54,171 --> 00:16:58,085 Now he's afraid that I've woken up 142 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:00,383 so he ups his game... 143 00:17:02,012 --> 00:17:06,803 and strikes at the thing I love most: children. 144 00:17:07,351 --> 00:17:09,843 But he's not afraid you've woken up 145 00:17:10,979 --> 00:17:13,892 he's afraid you've risen from the dead. 146 00:17:14,983 --> 00:17:18,272 In which case, you're not merely an infidel 147 00:17:18,695 --> 00:17:21,813 but, as you would be the Antichrist for us 148 00:17:21,990 --> 00:17:24,903 for him you would be Iblis, the Devil. 149 00:17:25,661 --> 00:17:28,028 And there is no dealing with the Devil. 150 00:17:29,706 --> 00:17:33,416 That's precisely what I want. He's gonna have to deal with me. 151 00:17:36,171 --> 00:17:39,380 The caliph doesn't know for sure 152 00:17:39,549 --> 00:17:42,963 if I've risen from the dead, or not. 153 00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:46,171 He has doubts. 154 00:17:47,391 --> 00:17:51,806 And doubt, as Voiello says, is a weapon. 155 00:17:52,562 --> 00:17:54,679 But we have a secret, a certainty... 156 00:17:57,901 --> 00:17:58,901 I have come back. 157 00:18:00,070 --> 00:18:02,778 And our certainty is not a weapon, it's a bomb. 158 00:18:04,992 --> 00:18:08,906 No one is interested in having that bomb explode. 159 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,538 Which is why we can force him to release the children. 160 00:18:13,875 --> 00:18:16,959 I don't understand what you plan to do. 161 00:18:17,754 --> 00:18:22,340 I plan to let the caliph know for certain that I am no longer in a coma. 162 00:18:23,552 --> 00:18:26,420 He knows if I show myself to the world 163 00:18:26,513 --> 00:18:29,130 I will rob him of his monopoly on fanaticism. 164 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,310 I can create a billion Catholic fanatics in a week. 165 00:18:35,981 --> 00:18:39,145 The caliph knows that, it's why he reacted so erratically. 166 00:18:40,277 --> 00:18:41,859 If I don't show myself to the world 167 00:18:41,945 --> 00:18:46,565 he can carry on dreaming his delirious dreams. 168 00:18:48,785 --> 00:18:50,401 It'll be up to him to decide. 169 00:18:51,955 --> 00:18:53,992 But if he doesn't want me to show myself 170 00:18:55,083 --> 00:18:58,952 he's gonna have to let those children and their teacher go immediately. 171 00:19:00,797 --> 00:19:01,797 What do you think? 172 00:19:06,470 --> 00:19:09,679 I think that we are the Church 173 00:19:09,765 --> 00:19:12,132 and we must act like the Church. 174 00:19:12,434 --> 00:19:17,350 We must kneel down and pray for six children and a priest 175 00:19:17,773 --> 00:19:20,481 while the forces of law and order 176 00:19:20,567 --> 00:19:25,983 devise a plan to liberate them without leaving any dead bodies on the ground. 177 00:19:26,448 --> 00:19:29,282 And that is what we shall do, Lenny. 178 00:19:29,785 --> 00:19:31,492 That is the middle way. 179 00:19:32,162 --> 00:19:36,702 You are the Pope and you establish the line, I will submit to your will. 180 00:19:41,838 --> 00:19:44,455 That night you wept at your brother Adam's tomb 181 00:19:44,716 --> 00:19:47,424 you told him God doesn't like you. 182 00:19:53,725 --> 00:19:55,682 How would you know that? 183 00:19:58,313 --> 00:19:59,770 Did you think you were alone? 184 00:20:02,109 --> 00:20:03,566 I was there with you, John. 185 00:20:06,154 --> 00:20:07,235 John... 186 00:20:08,782 --> 00:20:11,616 You're gonna have to resign yourself to believing in me 187 00:20:13,829 --> 00:20:15,320 now that you've realised... 188 00:20:16,748 --> 00:20:18,034 what I am. 189 00:20:19,584 --> 00:20:23,043 Free them now! Free them now! 190 00:20:24,339 --> 00:20:27,548 Free them now! Free them now! 191 00:22:06,024 --> 00:22:07,265 Brother cardinals... 192 00:22:14,074 --> 00:22:15,315 I've come back. 193 00:22:17,827 --> 00:22:21,195 This meeting here today is to be our secret. 194 00:22:24,584 --> 00:22:27,122 If you reveal to anyone that I've returned 195 00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:30,212 I will know how to punish you. 196 00:22:35,804 --> 00:22:37,591 Do you remember, brother cardinals 197 00:22:38,598 --> 00:22:41,887 when I told you that the faithful had to come to us 198 00:22:42,310 --> 00:22:43,767 through a narrow door 199 00:22:44,813 --> 00:22:46,600 that we would not go to them? 200 00:22:48,858 --> 00:22:52,272 You were all... rather sceptical. 201 00:22:53,947 --> 00:22:56,155 Yet that is exactly what's happened. 202 00:22:58,868 --> 00:23:02,236 And it is why I want you all now 203 00:23:02,956 --> 00:23:04,663 in absolute silence 204 00:23:05,792 --> 00:23:07,624 with your eyes closed... 205 00:23:10,422 --> 00:23:12,209 with your eyes closed... 206 00:23:13,383 --> 00:23:14,624 to concentrate 207 00:23:16,261 --> 00:23:18,173 and ask my forgiveness 208 00:23:19,764 --> 00:23:21,300 and say to yourselves 209 00:23:22,350 --> 00:23:24,262 "It will never happen again 210 00:23:24,436 --> 00:23:26,849 that I, a wretched man 211 00:23:28,106 --> 00:23:32,100 will fail to believe in Pius XIII." 212 00:23:41,244 --> 00:23:43,827 We are always saying that we guide people's hearts. 213 00:23:44,581 --> 00:23:45,913 But what does that mean? 214 00:23:48,793 --> 00:23:52,958 The heart in and of itself, as I know perfectly well 215 00:23:54,674 --> 00:23:58,008 is nothing more than an organ that beats. 216 00:23:59,095 --> 00:24:02,714 Sometimes it beats faster, sometimes it beats slower 217 00:24:04,684 --> 00:24:06,516 and sometimes it stops. 218 00:24:08,605 --> 00:24:12,599 The heart is a mechanism, it means nothing. 219 00:24:12,942 --> 00:24:17,937 What does it mean exactly to guide people's hearts? 220 00:24:21,493 --> 00:24:22,825 It means... 221 00:24:24,329 --> 00:24:26,787 to rule emotion. 222 00:24:28,458 --> 00:24:29,824 Your emotion... 223 00:24:31,252 --> 00:24:35,246 The emotion of other Catholics outside these walls. 224 00:24:36,925 --> 00:24:41,420 You can rule the emotion of your fellow man, he will follow you 225 00:24:42,847 --> 00:24:44,804 wherever you please. 226 00:24:52,190 --> 00:24:55,900 This is called power. 227 00:24:59,864 --> 00:25:01,947 Our Most Excellent Voiello 228 00:25:03,243 --> 00:25:05,951 exercises it over you all. 229 00:25:08,415 --> 00:25:13,251 John Paul III and myself exercise it over the world at large. 230 00:25:18,341 --> 00:25:21,630 What a marvellous job John Paul III has done. 231 00:25:24,514 --> 00:25:27,348 When he shouted that "no" in Lourdes 232 00:25:28,184 --> 00:25:32,144 he displayed all the courage you have always lacked. 233 00:25:33,148 --> 00:25:36,516 And last Sunday, at the Angelus 234 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:39,317 when he bared his heart 235 00:25:40,447 --> 00:25:43,281 he bared others' hearts as well. 236 00:25:44,325 --> 00:25:47,693 Others who have been concealing themselves 237 00:25:48,538 --> 00:25:51,246 but now they have emerged 238 00:25:51,749 --> 00:25:53,786 from their sorry little rooms 239 00:25:54,836 --> 00:25:57,829 their ditches of uncertainty. 240 00:26:00,133 --> 00:26:01,795 They are all out there now 241 00:26:03,303 --> 00:26:04,544 in the square. 242 00:26:06,931 --> 00:26:08,342 They came... 243 00:26:09,267 --> 00:26:10,599 they stayed 244 00:26:11,603 --> 00:26:13,390 and they will continue to stay. 245 00:26:18,151 --> 00:26:20,234 What a glorious Pope 246 00:26:21,696 --> 00:26:23,437 John Paul III! 247 00:26:43,551 --> 00:26:46,635 Because at long last, John Paul III 248 00:26:47,096 --> 00:26:52,308 has formed the angry base of the young Catholic army. 249 00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:56,557 If need be, I will expand 250 00:26:57,732 --> 00:27:00,896 inspire and arm them. 251 00:27:02,820 --> 00:27:04,903 The coming days will be crucial 252 00:27:05,865 --> 00:27:08,278 which is not why I need you by my side. 253 00:27:09,285 --> 00:27:10,867 I need my red backdrop. 254 00:27:11,704 --> 00:27:15,698 So, you will remain by my side, silent 255 00:27:16,417 --> 00:27:19,125 obedient and good. 256 00:27:20,755 --> 00:27:22,792 You're too old to reinvent yourselves 257 00:27:23,049 --> 00:27:27,589 too old to comprehend the shifts in the emotional nature of this world. 258 00:27:28,763 --> 00:27:30,299 You don't need to trust me 259 00:27:31,266 --> 00:27:34,475 you need to entrust yourselves to me. 260 00:27:35,395 --> 00:27:36,511 And pray. 261 00:27:37,564 --> 00:27:39,806 Pray for Don Antonio 262 00:27:40,567 --> 00:27:43,059 a good priest who is suffering 263 00:27:43,736 --> 00:27:46,729 and for six frightened children. 264 00:27:48,908 --> 00:27:50,649 God is by our side. 265 00:27:51,869 --> 00:27:53,656 We tend toward the good 266 00:27:53,997 --> 00:27:56,205 and God tends toward the good. 267 00:27:56,916 --> 00:28:00,751 Which is why God will remain by our side. 268 00:28:02,213 --> 00:28:03,704 Because He knows me 269 00:28:04,757 --> 00:28:06,293 and I know Him! 270 00:28:09,596 --> 00:28:11,053 Let us pray. 271 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,947 I don't understand. 272 00:28:31,826 --> 00:28:33,613 Who is the Pope now? 273 00:28:35,121 --> 00:28:38,159 Shut up and pray, idiot. 274 00:28:39,334 --> 00:28:40,541 When a man... 275 00:28:42,128 --> 00:28:43,994 in the name of other men 276 00:28:45,632 --> 00:28:47,624 and in one god's name 277 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,795 abducts children, terrorizes them, deprives them of food 278 00:28:52,889 --> 00:28:54,425 and threatens them with death 279 00:28:56,100 --> 00:28:58,137 he is not just committing a crime 280 00:28:59,854 --> 00:29:01,595 he is declaring war. 281 00:29:03,316 --> 00:29:07,481 The modern Church will not fall for these provocations. 282 00:29:08,613 --> 00:29:10,229 But I am not modern. 283 00:29:11,532 --> 00:29:12,773 I am ancient. 284 00:29:13,493 --> 00:29:17,954 I say to you now I am ready to respond to this declaration of war. 285 00:29:18,122 --> 00:29:20,535 - Your Holiness... - Shut up, Voiello, and listen to me. 286 00:29:22,251 --> 00:29:25,744 We will annihilate them. 287 00:29:27,715 --> 00:29:32,426 Tomorrow morning, I want John Paul III to address the people in the square. 288 00:29:32,637 --> 00:29:35,926 Take notes, Voiello, I have to dictate what he will say. 289 00:29:44,273 --> 00:29:46,606 I speak to the kidnappers. 290 00:29:47,193 --> 00:29:51,938 Yes, you are despicable, and yes, you are already dead. 291 00:29:52,323 --> 00:29:55,532 You act against any will of any god 292 00:29:55,743 --> 00:30:00,704 therefore I command you to release the children and Don Antonio. 293 00:30:01,624 --> 00:30:04,458 If you fail to obey, I will come there 294 00:30:04,544 --> 00:30:09,335 and I will have with me God and iron, faith and fire. 295 00:30:09,882 --> 00:30:12,420 And I will not be alone. 296 00:30:12,593 --> 00:30:16,007 You must know that, I will not be alone. 297 00:30:21,728 --> 00:30:25,267 Do you have any idea of the work we've been doing? 298 00:30:27,316 --> 00:30:29,683 We haven't slept in days. 299 00:30:30,194 --> 00:30:34,655 Our intelligence services, our diplomats, the Vice President... 300 00:30:34,782 --> 00:30:38,321 we've all been working our asses off to save your ass 301 00:30:38,578 --> 00:30:40,444 rescue those kids, the priest. 302 00:30:40,538 --> 00:30:43,497 And your emeritus Pope, how does he thank us? 303 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,584 By having John Paul III say he's ready to declare war. 304 00:30:48,212 --> 00:30:50,078 Are you out of your minds? 305 00:30:51,549 --> 00:30:53,131 Last time you fought a war 306 00:30:53,217 --> 00:30:57,382 was in 1540 and that was to conquer Perugia. 307 00:30:57,472 --> 00:30:59,805 Do you have the slightest idea 308 00:31:00,683 --> 00:31:04,142 - what the danger of declaring war is, Voiello? - No, what? 309 00:31:04,228 --> 00:31:06,686 That then you actually gonna have to fight it. 310 00:31:07,940 --> 00:31:09,226 Calm down, Bauer. 311 00:31:09,942 --> 00:31:13,936 Pius XIII is just a little wound up. 312 00:31:14,071 --> 00:31:17,314 Ah, OK, so why don't you try to wind him down a little? 313 00:31:17,450 --> 00:31:21,160 Cos otherwise I will be forced to do something more decisive. 314 00:31:21,954 --> 00:31:24,742 What do you want to do, Bauer, assassinate the Pope? 315 00:31:25,291 --> 00:31:28,659 There would be no point, he would just rise again. 316 00:31:29,045 --> 00:31:31,128 He might. You wouldn't. 317 00:31:32,215 --> 00:31:34,753 Let me explain something to you, Your Eminence. 318 00:31:35,259 --> 00:31:38,218 When we know the scenario, we can control it 319 00:31:38,471 --> 00:31:42,841 but when it's all an unknown, things spin out of control. 320 00:31:43,601 --> 00:31:45,593 One day, you're taking your kids to the park 321 00:31:45,686 --> 00:31:48,394 next day, you're taking cover in a bomb shelter. 322 00:31:48,564 --> 00:31:51,523 One day, your Pope is a little unwound 323 00:31:51,609 --> 00:31:55,353 next day, Word War III breaks out before you even know it. 324 00:31:55,446 --> 00:31:59,235 Now, can you see that living legend behind me there? 325 00:32:01,702 --> 00:32:03,489 I noticed him immediately. 326 00:32:03,621 --> 00:32:06,079 General Parker, that says it all. Now... 327 00:32:06,749 --> 00:32:09,537 The General is not going to utter a single word 328 00:32:09,627 --> 00:32:12,836 but he will move his head in response to my questions 329 00:32:12,922 --> 00:32:15,209 so watch him carefully. 330 00:32:15,424 --> 00:32:19,088 General Parker, in the event of a war 331 00:32:19,345 --> 00:32:22,804 will the United States, the most powerful nation on Earth 332 00:32:23,432 --> 00:32:26,891 be willing to save the Vatican's ass? 333 00:32:34,110 --> 00:32:36,477 - Got it? - Yes, I got it. 334 00:32:37,238 --> 00:32:42,108 But you are the one who's pretending not to get it, no one wants a war. 335 00:32:42,285 --> 00:32:46,029 If Pius XIII shows himself to the world 336 00:32:46,372 --> 00:32:48,955 Catholic fundamentalism will boil over. 337 00:32:49,542 --> 00:32:53,286 If Pius XIII utters the word "war" 338 00:32:54,088 --> 00:32:56,956 millions of people from around the world are ready 339 00:32:57,049 --> 00:33:00,884 to immolate themselves on the Syrian border 340 00:33:01,095 --> 00:33:05,840 and to launch the greatest religious war of all time. 341 00:33:06,309 --> 00:33:09,017 Many of them will be Americans. 342 00:33:09,604 --> 00:33:14,440 The frontlines would include Catholic factions 343 00:33:15,192 --> 00:33:19,061 from the conflicts in former Yugoslavia 344 00:33:19,447 --> 00:33:24,442 freedom fighters from Ukraine and the Lithuanian special forces 345 00:33:24,660 --> 00:33:28,324 and affluent members of the Catholic diaspora 346 00:33:28,831 --> 00:33:31,039 stand ready to finance the conflict... 347 00:33:31,125 --> 00:33:32,707 and provide arms. 348 00:33:34,170 --> 00:33:35,627 Am I wrong, General Parker? 349 00:33:41,469 --> 00:33:44,007 See? We might be a little rusty 350 00:33:44,221 --> 00:33:46,508 but we still know a thing or two about war. 351 00:33:46,807 --> 00:33:49,675 I can't believe we're even having this conversation. 352 00:33:50,269 --> 00:33:53,057 The Vatican entertaining the idea 353 00:33:53,147 --> 00:33:55,855 of declaring war on Islam. 354 00:33:56,025 --> 00:33:58,984 Jesus fucking Christ, Voiello. 355 00:33:59,070 --> 00:34:03,360 No, hold on, Bauer. Not on Islam, on Islamic terrorism. 356 00:34:03,824 --> 00:34:08,364 We know perfectly well that the majority of Muslims are moderate 357 00:34:08,829 --> 00:34:10,741 but that's exactly the point. 358 00:34:11,332 --> 00:34:14,700 It's the moderate Catholics who now risk 359 00:34:14,877 --> 00:34:18,496 becoming few in number because the majority 360 00:34:18,714 --> 00:34:20,706 would become fundamentalists 361 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:25,010 if Pius XIII were to show himself. 362 00:34:26,055 --> 00:34:27,671 So, now listen to me, Bauer. 363 00:34:28,391 --> 00:34:32,055 Pius XIII may have in mind to leave a sign 364 00:34:32,645 --> 00:34:34,181 a divine sign. 365 00:34:34,981 --> 00:34:40,022 Not some momentary peace that lasts only until the next madman 366 00:34:40,403 --> 00:34:44,898 comes along eager to carry out an attack somewhere in the world 367 00:34:44,991 --> 00:34:47,074 but everlasting peace 368 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,652 or at least a very long-lasting peace. 369 00:34:50,830 --> 00:34:52,822 Where you were unable to do it 370 00:34:52,957 --> 00:34:56,121 he may well prove to be successful 371 00:34:56,335 --> 00:34:59,078 because the collective imagination 372 00:34:59,296 --> 00:35:02,209 is more powerful than the atomic bomb. 373 00:35:02,883 --> 00:35:04,419 Now do you get it, Bauer? 374 00:35:07,888 --> 00:35:09,345 Life is so beautiful. 375 00:35:11,142 --> 00:35:13,509 It would be enough to embrace it for what it is. 376 00:35:16,105 --> 00:35:18,973 An opportunity for joy and grace 377 00:35:20,443 --> 00:35:23,732 for love and lightheartedness. 378 00:35:26,157 --> 00:35:28,365 When did you lose your lightheartedness? 379 00:35:31,537 --> 00:35:32,537 When? 380 00:36:02,193 --> 00:36:06,278 Everyone down there remembers my miracles but they forget about my murders. 381 00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:14,574 They don't know it was me who killed that poor priest, that hero, in Ventotene 382 00:36:14,663 --> 00:36:19,499 and I left those six bewildered children alone with those madmen. 383 00:36:20,086 --> 00:36:22,578 Tomorrow, they'll blame John Paul III but it was me. 384 00:36:23,631 --> 00:36:26,089 I'm a danger to others, I'm worthless 385 00:36:26,550 --> 00:36:28,883 a rash, unreasonable child. 386 00:36:32,723 --> 00:36:35,761 Your Holiness, John Paul III would like to see you. 387 00:36:46,987 --> 00:36:49,980 - Your Eminence. - Bauer, what are you doing here? 388 00:36:51,534 --> 00:36:52,820 Brought someone to see you. 389 00:36:57,581 --> 00:37:00,824 - Who is he? - The man closest to the caliph. 390 00:37:02,253 --> 00:37:04,415 - Did you track him down? - Nope. 391 00:37:05,422 --> 00:37:07,709 That's where it gets interesting: he tracked me down. 392 00:38:02,229 --> 00:38:03,970 When you don't have proof... 393 00:38:06,358 --> 00:38:07,724 you don't have proof. 394 00:38:16,911 --> 00:38:19,403 Voiello called me, they made contact 395 00:38:19,580 --> 00:38:21,742 they sought us out, they're afraid. 396 00:38:22,499 --> 00:38:25,992 They claimed it wasn't them. They're bluffing, naturally. 397 00:38:26,212 --> 00:38:29,125 This is the confirmation that it was them. 398 00:38:33,219 --> 00:38:34,551 Are you a charlatan? 399 00:38:36,138 --> 00:38:37,345 Are you a guru? 400 00:38:38,641 --> 00:38:41,179 Are you a saint? Are you the Devil? 401 00:38:42,102 --> 00:38:44,435 Are you the Messiah? Are you Christ? 402 00:38:45,022 --> 00:38:46,354 Are you God? 403 00:38:47,191 --> 00:38:49,057 It doesn't matter, Lenny. 404 00:38:49,735 --> 00:38:51,192 I am the Pope. 405 00:38:52,071 --> 00:38:55,405 For me, you are a priest, nothing more. 406 00:38:56,033 --> 00:39:00,368 And you will show me perfect obedience as all priests do. 407 00:39:01,121 --> 00:39:05,411 For that is all we know. That is the Church. 408 00:39:06,669 --> 00:39:09,412 And we answer for the Church. 409 00:39:11,507 --> 00:39:13,749 Your Holiness, you are exactly right. 410 00:39:14,969 --> 00:39:16,130 I'm wrong. 411 00:39:17,638 --> 00:39:21,882 If you continue to listen to me, I will continue to make mistakes. 412 00:39:22,601 --> 00:39:25,719 I'll withdraw to my tower for the rest of my life 413 00:39:25,813 --> 00:39:27,395 and no one will ever see me again. 414 00:39:27,564 --> 00:39:29,521 No, you will not withdraw 415 00:39:30,693 --> 00:39:32,730 you will show yourself to the world. 416 00:39:34,238 --> 00:39:38,027 And you will say what I did not have the courage to say. 417 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,073 - Will you be at my side, Your Holiness? - No. 418 00:39:43,872 --> 00:39:47,661 The moment I have always longed for has finally arrived. 419 00:39:50,754 --> 00:39:55,374 - What moment? - When I fulfil my one and only ambition 420 00:39:57,052 --> 00:39:58,668 to be forgotten. 421 00:40:00,639 --> 00:40:01,971 But you are the Pope. 422 00:40:04,226 --> 00:40:05,262 No. 423 00:40:06,020 --> 00:40:08,979 I am a fragile piece of porcelain. 424 00:40:11,275 --> 00:40:13,392 But I have finally understood 425 00:40:13,485 --> 00:40:16,569 that my fragility is my strength 426 00:40:17,573 --> 00:40:19,235 not my damnation. 427 00:40:22,536 --> 00:40:23,743 What are you gonna do? 428 00:40:26,248 --> 00:40:27,284 Will you return home? 429 00:40:35,341 --> 00:40:37,754 I will return to myself. 430 00:40:48,103 --> 00:40:50,766 Are we sure we didn't forget anything? 431 00:40:52,358 --> 00:40:53,815 Yes, we are, sir. 432 00:40:59,406 --> 00:41:01,773 What shall I do with the box, sir? 433 00:41:02,618 --> 00:41:03,618 Hm... 434 00:41:03,827 --> 00:41:06,114 Let's keep it for now, shall we? 435 00:41:07,456 --> 00:41:10,039 As Cardinal Newman used to say: 436 00:41:10,709 --> 00:41:12,621 "One never knows in life." 437 00:45:16,204 --> 00:45:17,411 Stand up. 438 00:47:19,035 --> 00:47:23,996 That's Amber, an escort from Hannover, she follows me everywhere. 439 00:47:24,374 --> 00:47:26,912 Actually, I've recently decided we're gonna get married. 440 00:47:27,544 --> 00:47:29,126 I'm gonna miss you, Voiello. 441 00:47:29,671 --> 00:47:32,163 - You are leaving? - Yep, I'm done here. 442 00:47:32,591 --> 00:47:34,503 - Where will you go? - Korea. 443 00:47:35,135 --> 00:47:38,924 Things are really heating up over there, I'm gonna try and calm them down. 444 00:47:39,014 --> 00:47:41,097 Please don't tell anyone that's where I'm going. 445 00:47:41,391 --> 00:47:45,055 - I didn't need this. - Yeah, I know. 446 00:47:46,354 --> 00:47:49,188 Even though I do all I can to dissuade people 447 00:47:49,274 --> 00:47:52,233 in the end, they always develop a soft spot for me. 448 00:47:53,236 --> 00:47:57,480 You were right, the caliph didn't carry out any attacks in Europe. 449 00:47:58,366 --> 00:48:00,528 Who am I going to talk to now? 450 00:48:00,911 --> 00:48:04,530 Ever since Girolamo died, you have been my only friend. 451 00:48:04,623 --> 00:48:08,242 Relax, Voiello, this is not the 15th century. 452 00:48:08,376 --> 00:48:10,618 With a few precautions, we can talk on the phone. 453 00:48:11,046 --> 00:48:14,665 You better wish me luck, though: I've been dining on clams here. 454 00:48:15,550 --> 00:48:17,837 They're gonna feed me dog soup in Korea. 455 00:48:17,969 --> 00:48:22,384 Isn't he the sweetest thing, my little Bauer octopus? 456 00:48:24,017 --> 00:48:26,350 Please, don't say that, sweetheart 457 00:48:26,478 --> 00:48:28,185 you're demolishing the legend. 458 00:48:28,396 --> 00:48:31,605 Voiello, I need you to explain something to me. 459 00:48:32,984 --> 00:48:36,068 Why would some Catholics try to kill other Catholics? 460 00:48:37,030 --> 00:48:39,943 Because fanaticism and obtuseness 461 00:48:40,158 --> 00:48:42,024 are one and the same thing. 462 00:48:42,577 --> 00:48:46,412 Anyway, they don't eat dog in Korea anymore. 463 00:48:46,498 --> 00:48:49,366 I know, I know, but it doesn't really matter. 464 00:48:49,709 --> 00:48:52,827 Whenever they serve me food, that's gonna be my expectation 465 00:48:53,755 --> 00:48:56,543 that will be my perception: dog. 466 00:48:57,300 --> 00:48:59,883 And as you and I know all too well, my friend 467 00:49:01,346 --> 00:49:02,712 perception is everything. 468 00:49:15,443 --> 00:49:16,524 Sir John... 469 00:49:18,822 --> 00:49:20,814 your parents wish to see you. 470 00:49:25,662 --> 00:49:27,574 They would like to welcome you home. 471 00:50:05,368 --> 00:50:09,408 Our mouths are filled with the word "love". 472 00:50:10,790 --> 00:50:14,124 But I, before anyone else 473 00:50:14,252 --> 00:50:16,118 didn't know how to define it. 474 00:50:18,340 --> 00:50:21,003 Our mouths are filled with the word "beauty". 475 00:50:23,470 --> 00:50:28,090 But I, before anyone else, didn't know how to receive it. 476 00:50:30,894 --> 00:50:33,136 For this, I ask your forgiveness. 477 00:50:35,357 --> 00:50:36,689 Please forgive me. 478 00:50:40,195 --> 00:50:43,029 At times we confound love 479 00:50:44,449 --> 00:50:45,735 with madness. 480 00:50:47,494 --> 00:50:50,953 Beauty with ecstasy. 481 00:50:53,875 --> 00:50:55,707 History has repeated itself 482 00:50:56,169 --> 00:50:58,627 madness and ecstasy have once again 483 00:50:59,047 --> 00:51:01,790 proven to be irresistible temptations 484 00:51:03,593 --> 00:51:07,337 but they always end the way they did on Ventotene... 485 00:51:09,683 --> 00:51:11,345 with unjust death. 486 00:51:12,602 --> 00:51:15,845 In this case, of a good and innocent priest. 487 00:51:17,774 --> 00:51:20,642 There is a life of happiness to be found 488 00:51:20,902 --> 00:51:24,486 in the sphere of gentleness 489 00:51:26,157 --> 00:51:28,524 kindness, mildness 490 00:51:30,912 --> 00:51:32,244 lovingness. 491 00:51:35,333 --> 00:51:37,666 We must learn to be in the world. 492 00:51:39,170 --> 00:51:42,379 And the Church must contemplate the idea 493 00:51:42,465 --> 00:51:45,424 of opening up to the love that is possible 494 00:51:45,593 --> 00:51:48,757 in order to fight against the love that is aberrant. 495 00:51:50,682 --> 00:51:53,299 All this, John Paul III 496 00:51:53,810 --> 00:51:55,301 with great humility 497 00:51:56,563 --> 00:51:58,099 calls "the middle way". 498 00:52:00,316 --> 00:52:02,774 In the past few days, I have understood. 499 00:52:04,070 --> 00:52:06,608 It is not the middle way 500 00:52:08,450 --> 00:52:09,861 it is the way. 501 00:52:14,039 --> 00:52:15,826 Ever since I came back 502 00:52:16,666 --> 00:52:20,330 you've been asking yourselves all sorts of questions. 503 00:52:22,297 --> 00:52:24,129 Is he the Father or the Son? 504 00:52:25,759 --> 00:52:29,469 Is he God or the Holy Spirit? 505 00:52:30,847 --> 00:52:33,260 Is he man or is he Jesus? 506 00:52:35,101 --> 00:52:38,890 Did he wake up or did he rise from the dead? 507 00:52:42,108 --> 00:52:44,395 Is he a saint or is he an impostor? 508 00:52:47,030 --> 00:52:51,070 Is he Christ or is he the Antichrist? 509 00:52:54,037 --> 00:52:55,699 Is he alive or is he dead? 510 00:52:58,625 --> 00:52:59,741 It doesn't matter. 511 00:53:08,051 --> 00:53:11,044 Do you know what is so beautiful about questions? 512 00:53:17,143 --> 00:53:20,557 It's that we don't have the answers. 513 00:53:24,776 --> 00:53:26,733 In the end, only God has the answers. 514 00:53:29,823 --> 00:53:31,280 They're his secret. 515 00:53:33,118 --> 00:53:36,361 God's secret, which only He knows. 516 00:53:38,540 --> 00:53:40,623 That is the mystery in which we believe. 517 00:53:44,754 --> 00:53:48,122 And that is the mystery which guides our conscience. 518 00:53:55,181 --> 00:53:56,422 And now... 519 00:53:58,351 --> 00:54:00,468 I would like to come down among you 520 00:54:01,855 --> 00:54:04,598 and do what I've wanted to do since the first moment. 521 00:54:07,735 --> 00:54:08,942 Embrace you 522 00:54:10,321 --> 00:54:11,482 one by one. 523 00:58:58,568 --> 00:59:04,485 Brother cardinals, after the good fortune of two truly great popes 524 00:59:04,991 --> 00:59:09,702 John Paul III and Pius XIII, what is it we need? 525 00:59:10,288 --> 00:59:12,701 A man steeped in mediocrity. 526 00:59:13,332 --> 00:59:16,245 Dull, hard-working, sensitive 527 00:59:16,502 --> 00:59:20,212 and receptive to the countless requests 528 00:59:20,298 --> 00:59:24,508 of his beloved colleagues in the college of cardinals. 529 00:59:25,261 --> 00:59:27,799 I didn't sleep a wink last night. 530 00:59:28,556 --> 00:59:32,550 I read and reread the pontifical yearbook 531 00:59:33,060 --> 00:59:36,770 a thousand times, and in the end 532 00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,056 I didn't find 533 00:59:40,401 --> 00:59:43,439 a single name that responds to the call. 534 00:59:45,114 --> 00:59:46,150 I did. 535 00:59:47,408 --> 00:59:51,448 - I found a name. - Which one, Don Cavallo? 536 00:59:51,704 --> 00:59:54,071 The last one, alphabetically: 537 00:59:54,707 --> 00:59:55,993 Voiello Angelo. 538 00:59:56,792 --> 01:00:00,536 Why do you always have to 539 01:00:00,630 --> 01:00:02,542 make me feel so uneasy?