Conclave - Divisions Within a United Faith Community
Tedesco: [referring to Benitez, in English; switches to Italian]
Our new brother — 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: [indicates the table the two are sitting at; indicates other tables; switches to English; in Italian; switches to English; in Italian; in English; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem) things fall apart, the centre cannot hold]
Look around you. Look how everyone gravitates close to their fellow countrymen. Italians all here. Spaniards there. Englishmen there. Frenchmen. Divided by language. 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 the Dead Language. Without Rome, without the tradition of Rome — .
Lawrence:
So, the next Pope should be an Italian?
Tedesco: [gestures to a table where Adeyemi is sitting]
Why not? We haven't had an Italian Pope for forty years. Forty years, Thomas. Can you seriously imagine the alternative?
Lawrence: [stands up]
Excuse me. I must go around and visit our fellow brothers.
Tedesco: [grabs Lawrence's cuff; in Latin]
Abyssus abyssum invocat.
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