Conclave Movie Quotes
Lawrence
Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" he cried out in his agony at the ninth hour on the cross. Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore, no need for faith. Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts. And let him grant us a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and who carries on.
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Sister Agnes
Although we sisters are supposed to be invisible, God has nevertheless given us eyes and ears.
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Benitez
I am what God made me. And perhaps it is my difference that will make me more useful.
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Bellini
If we liberals are not united, Tedesco will become Pope. You have no idea how bad it became, Thomas. The way he and his circle attacked the Holy Father towards the end - the smears, the leaks to the press - it was savage. He fought him every single day of his pontificate, and now that he's dead, he wants to destroy his life's work. If Tedesco becomes Pope, he will undo sixty years of progress.
Lawrence
You talk as if you are the only alternative, but Adeyemi has the wind behind him.
Bellini
Adeyemi? Adeyemi, the man who believes that homosexuals should be sent to prison in this world and Hell in the next? Adeyemi's not the answer to anything, and you know it. If you want to defeat...
Lawrence
Defeat? This is a conclave, Aldo. It's not a war.
Bellini
It is a war, and you have to commit to a side.
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Lawrence
The other night, you were kind enough to say that you had voted for me. Now, I don't know if you've continued to do so, but if you have, then I must repeat my plead to you to stop.
Benitez
Why?
Lawrence
Well, firstly, I lack the spiritual depth to be Pope. Secondly, I couldn't possibly win. A long, drawn-out Conclave would be seen by the media as proof that the Church is in crisis.
Benitez
You have come to ask me to vote for Cardinal Tremblay?
Lawrence
Yes, I have, and to urge your supporters to do the same.
Benitez
Cardinal Tremblay already spoke to me about this.
Lawrence
Oh, well, I'm sure he has.
Benitez
You want me to vote for a man you see as ambitious?
Lawrence
I do not want to see Tedesco as Pope. He would take our church back to... to an earlier era.
Benitez
I'm sorry, but I cannot vote for a man unless I deem him the most worthy to be Pope. And for me, that is not Tremblay. It's you.
Benitez
Nevertheless... you have it.
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Benitez
I think again of your sermon. I know what it is to exist... between the world's certainties.
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Lawrence
Five times I cast my vote for you, Aldo. But I was wrong. You lack the courage to be Pope.
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Lawrence
Is this what we're reduced to? To vote for the least worst option?
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Adeyemi
I sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit this morning; I swear it. I am ready to take this burden. Do... Does a single single mistake 30 years ago disqualify me? Thomas, please, I was a different man. Please, I beg you, do not use this to ruin me.
Lawrence
Joshua, that thought's not worthy of you. Shanumi will say nothing to protect her son, and I am bound by the vows of the confessional.
Adeyemi
So, I still have hope?
Lawrence
No. There is no hope. After such a public scene, there will be rumours and you know what the Curia is like. Nothing terrifies our colleagues more than the thought of yet more sexual scandals. I am more sorry than I can say. You will never be Pope. You must begin again. But you are a good man. I know you to be a good man, and you will find a way to atone.
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O'Malley
Well, Eminence, I'd say this is a pretty fair vision of hell.
Lawrence
Well, don't be blasphemous, Ray. Hell arrives tomorrow when we bring in the cardinals.
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Bellini
I could never become Pope on those circumstances. A stolen document, the smearing of a brother cardinal. I'd be the Richard Nixon of Popes.
Lawrence
Then stay clear of this, leave it to me. I'm willing to handle the consequences.
Bellini
You know who's gonna benefit most from this? Tedesco. The whole basis of his candidacy is that the Holy Father led the church to disaster by his attempts at reform. If you reveal this report, it isn't Tremblay's reputation that's going to suffer, it's the Church's. Accusing the Curia of institutional corruption...
Lawrence
I thought we were here to serve God, not the Curia.
Bellini
Oh, don't be naive!
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Tremblay
You should be careful, Thomas. Your own ambition has not gone unnoticed. This might be seen as a tactic to blacken the name of a rival.
Lawrence
Well that's a despicable accusation.
Tremblay
Is it? I wonder, if you really are so reluctant to have the chalice passed to you. I shall pretend this conversation never took place.
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Adeyemi
Judas.
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Tremblay
You are responsible for this, I believe.
Lawrence
No, Eminence. You are.
Tremblay
This report is entirely mendacious. It would never have seen the light of day if you had not broken into the Holy Father's to remove it!
Lawrence
If the report is mendacious, then why did the Holy Father in his last official act as Pope ask you to resign?
Tremblay
He did no such thing. As Monsignor Morales, who was at the meeting...
Lawrence
And yet Archbishop Wozniak insists the Holy Father...
Tremblay
The Holy Father, may his name be numbered among the high priests, was a sick man toward the end of his life, as those of us who saw him regularly can attest.
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Bellini
Ambition the moth of holiness.
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Wozniak
The point is we will never find that a candidate who doesn't have any kind of black mark against them. We're mortal men. We serve an ideal. We cannot always be ideal.
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Wozniak
We've had a Pope who was in the Hitler Youth and fought for the Nazis. We've had Popes accused of colluding with communists and fascists. We've had Popes who have ignored reports of most appalling sexual abuse of children!
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Benitez
My brother cardinal. With respect... what do you know about war? I carried out my ministry in the Congo. In Baghdad, in Kabul. I've seen the lines of the dead and wounded, Christian and Muslim. When you say we have to fight, what is it you think we are fighting? You think it's those deluded men who have carried out these terrible acts today? No, my brother.
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Benitez
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.
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Lawrence
Over the course of many years in service of our Mother the Church, let me tell you, there is one sin which I have come to fear over all others: Certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.
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Bellini
Save your precious doubts for your prayers.
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Lawrence
And over the course of many years in the service of our Mother the Church, let me tell you, there is one sin which I have come to fear above all others. Certainty.
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