Cardinal Aldo Bellini quotes from Conclave (2024)
Played by Stanley Tucci
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Is this what we're reduced to? To vote for the least worst option?
Scenes with Cardinal Aldo Bellini
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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!
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!
Other characters in Conclave (2024): Cardinal Thomas Lawrence · Cardinal Vincent Benitez · Sister Agnes