Tedesco: [referring to Benitez, in English] Our new brother — [switches to Italian] did I hear correctly? Afghanistan?
Lawrence: [in Italian] Yes. A marvelous testament to the Universal Church, don't you think so? So many men of different cultures and races bound together by their faith in God.
Tedesco: Look around you. Look how everyone gravitates close to their fellow countrymen. [indicates the table the two are sitting at] Italians all here. [indicates other tables] Spaniards there. Englishmen there. Frenchmen. [switches to English] Divided by language. [in Italian] When we were boys, and the Tridentine Mass was still the only true liturgy of the world, we would have all been speaking Latin. But then your liberal friends resolved to erase [switches to English] the Dead Language. [in Italian] Without Rome, without the tradition of Rome — [in English] things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.
Lawrence: So, the next Pope should be an Italian?
Tedesco: Why not? We haven't had an Italian Pope for forty years. Forty years, Thomas. Can you seriously imagine the alternative? [gestures to a table where Adeyemi is sitting]
[beat]
Lawrence: Excuse me. I must go around and visit our fellow brothers. [stands up]
Tedesco: [grabs Lawrence's cuff; in Latin] Abyssus abyssum invocat.
[Lawrence shakes Tedesco's hand off]
Lawrence: [in Italian] Yes. A marvelous testament to the Universal Church, don't you think so? So many men of different cultures and races bound together by their faith in God.
Tedesco: Look around you. Look how everyone gravitates close to their fellow countrymen. [indicates the table the two are sitting at] Italians all here. [indicates other tables] Spaniards there. Englishmen there. Frenchmen. [switches to English] Divided by language. [in Italian] When we were boys, and the Tridentine Mass was still the only true liturgy of the world, we would have all been speaking Latin. But then your liberal friends resolved to erase [switches to English] the Dead Language. [in Italian] Without Rome, without the tradition of Rome — [in English] things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.
Lawrence: So, the next Pope should be an Italian?
Tedesco: Why not? We haven't had an Italian Pope for forty years. Forty years, Thomas. Can you seriously imagine the alternative? [gestures to a table where Adeyemi is sitting]
[beat]
Lawrence: Excuse me. I must go around and visit our fellow brothers. [stands up]
Tedesco: [grabs Lawrence's cuff; in Latin] Abyssus abyssum invocat.
[Lawrence shakes Tedesco's hand off]
Tedesco: [referring to Benitez, in English] Our new brother — [switches to Italian] did I hear correctly? Afghanistan?
Lawrence: [in Italian] Yes. A marvelous testament to the Universal Church, don't you think so? So many men of different cultures and races bound together by their faith in God.
Tedesco: Look around you. Look how everyone gravitates close to their fellow countrymen. [indicates the table the two are sitting at] Italians all here. [indicates other tables] Spaniards there. Englishmen there. Frenchmen. [switches to English] Divided by language. [in Italian] When we were boys, and the Tridentine Mass was still the only true liturgy of the world, we would have all been speaking Latin. But then your liberal friends resolved to erase [switches to English] the Dead Language. [in Italian] Without Rome, without the tradition of Rome — [in English] things fall apart, the centre cannot hold .
Lawrence: So, the next Pope should be an Italian?
Tedesco: Why not? We haven't had an Italian Pope for forty years. Forty years, Thomas. Can you seriously imagine the alternative? [gestures to a table where Adeyemi is sitting]
[beat]
Lawrence: Excuse me. I must go around and visit our fellow brothers. [stands up]
Tedesco: [grabs Lawrence's cuff; in Latin] Abyssus abyssum invocat.
[Lawrence shakes Tedesco's hand off]
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