Joshua Adeyemi: If this is about the incident downstairs, I have no desire to talk about it. I am the victim of a disgraceful plot to ruin my reputation. Someone brought that woman here and staged this melodrama. She'd never left Nigeria before, and suddenly she's here in the Casa Santa Marta.
Thomas Lawrence: With respect, Joshua, how she came here is secondary to the issue of your relationship with her.
Joshua Adeyemi: I have no relationship to her! I hadn't set eyes on her in thirty years until she turned up outside my room last night! It was a lapse, Dean. A lapse. "Let God grant us a Pope who sins and asks forgiveness and carries on." Your words.
Thomas Lawrence: And the child?
Joshua Adeyemi: The child? The child was raised in a Christian household. And to this day, he has no idea who his father is, if, indeed, it is me. That is the child. We were very young.
Thomas Lawrence: No, no, no, Joshua. She was very young. She was nineteen years old. You were thirty.
Joshua Adeyemi: Thomas. Thomas, listen to me. Please. I sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit this morning; I swear it. I am ready to take this burden. Does a single, single mistake thirty years ago disqualify me? Thomas, please, I was a different man. Please, I beg you, do not use this to ruin me.
Thomas 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.
Joshua Adeyemi: So, I still have hope?
Thomas 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.
Thomas Lawrence: With respect, Joshua, how she came here is secondary to the issue of your relationship with her.
Joshua Adeyemi: I have no relationship to her! I hadn't set eyes on her in thirty years until she turned up outside my room last night! It was a lapse, Dean. A lapse. "Let God grant us a Pope who sins and asks forgiveness and carries on." Your words.
Thomas Lawrence: And the child?
Joshua Adeyemi: The child? The child was raised in a Christian household. And to this day, he has no idea who his father is, if, indeed, it is me. That is the child. We were very young.
Thomas Lawrence: No, no, no, Joshua. She was very young. She was nineteen years old. You were thirty.
Joshua Adeyemi: Thomas. Thomas, listen to me. Please. I sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit this morning; I swear it. I am ready to take this burden. Does a single, single mistake thirty years ago disqualify me? Thomas, please, I was a different man. Please, I beg you, do not use this to ruin me.
Thomas 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.
Joshua Adeyemi: So, I still have hope?
Thomas 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.
Joshua Adeyemi: If this is about the incident downstairs, I have no desire to talk about it. I am the victim of a disgraceful plot to ruin my reputation. Someone brought that woman here and staged this melodrama. She'd never left Nigeria before, and suddenly she's here in the Casa Santa Marta.
Thomas Lawrence: With respect, Joshua, how she came here is secondary to the issue of your relationship with her.
Joshua Adeyemi: I have no relationship to her! I hadn't set eyes on her in thirty years until she turned up outside my room last night! It was a lapse, Dean. A lapse. "Let God grant us a Pope who sins and asks forgiveness and carries on." Your words.
Thomas Lawrence: And the child?
Joshua Adeyemi: The child? The child was raised in a Christian household. And to this day, he has no idea who his father is, if, indeed, it is me. That is the child. We were very young.
Thomas Lawrence: No, no, no, Joshua. She was very young. She was nineteen years old. You were thirty.
Joshua Adeyemi: Thomas. Thomas, listen to me. Please. I sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit this morning; I swear it. I am ready to take this burden. Does a single, single mistake thirty years ago disqualify me? Thomas, please, I was a different man. Please, I beg you, do not use this to ruin me.
Thomas 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.
Joshua Adeyemi: So, I still have hope?
Thomas 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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