The Young Pope

Ciao, Rome! Ciao, world! Ciao! What have we forgotten? What have we forgotten? We have forgotten you! Let me be very clear: I'm here for one very simple reason. To not forget anyone. God does not leave anyone behind. That is what He told me when I decided to serve Him. And it is what I say to you now. I serve God. I serve you! We've forgotten the women and children, who will change this world with their love and their kindness. And with their marvelous, divine disposition to play. Play is the only authentic means we have to make us feel in harmony with life. And to be in harmony with God, we have to be in harmony with life. We don't have a choice: we must be in harmony with God! And what else have we forgotten? We have forgotten to masturbate! To use contraceptives, to get abortions, to celebrate gay marriages, to allow priests to love each other, and even to get married. We've forgotten that we can decide to die if you detest living, we've forgotten to have sexual relations for purpos

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Pope Pius XIII: God... my conscience does not accuse me because you do not believe I am capable of repenting. And therefore, I do not believe in you. I don't believe you're capable of saving me from myself. Don Tommaso Viglietti: Holy father... what are you saying? Pope Pius XIII: I'm saying that I don't believe in God, Tommaso.

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What have we forgotten? We have forgotten God! You! You have forgotten God! I want to be very clear with you. You have to be closer to God than to each other. I am closer to God than I am to you. You need to know I will never be close to you, because everyone is alone before God. I have nothing to say to those who have even the slightest doubt about God. All I can do is remind them of my scorn and their wretchedness. I don’t have to prove that God exists. It is up to you to prove that he doesn’t. Are you capable of proving that God does not exist? If you aren’t able to prove it that means God does exist. God exists. And he isn’t interested in us until we become interested in him—in him exclusively. You understand what I’m saying? Exclusively! Twenty-four hours a day your hearts and minds filled only with God, there’s no room for anything else, no room for free will, no room for liberty, no room for emancipation. “Free yourself from God,” I’ve heard people say, “liberate yourself from G

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Andrew: When are you gonna grow up? Lenny Belardo: Never. A priest never grows up because he can never become a father. He'll always be a son.

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Lord Almighty, now that You have our beloved Dussolier in Your arms, I pray to You, remind him of that afternoon when we ran away together from the orphanage. Remind him of the fear and freedom we felt on that rainy afternoon. And reassure him, there's nothing wrong, freedom and fear are always together, like an old married couple, each willing to die for the other. Remind him of Sister Mary at age twenty, her hair flowing and blonde and drenched in sunlight as she ran and sank baskets. Remind him of that indelible, archaic picture of beauty that so stirred us, in silence. Now I know very well that neither he nor I will ever forget that picture. Remind him, Lord Almighty, of all our endless late-night conversations, in that big one-room dormitory, under the blankets, how we whispered in secret about our one and only, inexhaustible topic of discussion: our future. We were children then, and that's what children do: they paint the future in colors that reality can never know. Remind him

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Pope Pius XIII: Are you a good person? Sister Antonia: I believe I am. Pope Pius XIII: Don't be in such a hurry. Think carefully. Sister Antonia: I try to live in accordance with Christian values. Pope Pius XIII: Which ones? You can use Christian values for all kinds of purposes. A good person is somebody who puts himself last. Who renounces his own temptations and needs, working only for the interests of others. Now, think carefully and answer sincerely, because I won't put up with even the tiniest lie from you. Are you a good person? Pope Pius XIII: There seems to be some kind of misunderstanding concerning the meaning of my visit here to you. You think I'm here to honor you? In fact, I'm here to ascertain your temptations. Heal yourself, Sister Antonia; halitosis is a deformation of the soul.

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