Memorable Quotes from Sergio Castellitto
1 quoteDivisions Within a United Faith Community
Tedesco
Our new brother — did I hear correctly? Afghanistan?
[referring to Benitez, in English; switches to Italian]
Lawrence
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.
[in Italian]
Tedesco
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 — .
[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]
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]
Lawrence
Excuse me. I must go around and visit our fellow brothers.
[stands up]
Tedesco
Abyssus abyssum invocat.
[grabs Lawrence's cuff; in Latin]
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