Mladý papež

"I am a contradiction. Like God. One in three and three in one. Like Mary, virgin and mother. Like man, good and evil... I am the Pope." (26.02.2022)

"Your Eminence... You're too tied to the past. The past is an enormous place, with all sorts of things inside. Not so with the present. The present is merely a narrow opening, with room for only one pair of eyes. Mine." (26.02.2022)

"They will not see me because I do not exist. Media suicide, you say? Fine, now try to keep up with me, if you can. So, who is the most important author of the last twenty years? Careful now, not the best, virtuosity is for the arrogant, the most important, the author who has sparked so much morbid curiosity that he became the most important? Salinger. The most important film director? Kubrick. Contemporary artist? Banksy. Electronic music group? Daft Punk. Now do you know what it is, what the invisible red thread is that connects them all, all these most important figures in their respective fields? None of them let themselves be seen. None of them let themselves be photographed." (27.02.2022)

"What truly made our church great? Fear or tolerance? What can we learn from the history of our Church? How great was the papal state when fear among nations was part of our DNA? How small did we become, how greatly did our influence decline, when we decided to yield. To succumb, to withdraw, to become accommodating and reassuring?" (27.02.2022)

"Prayer shouldn't be a list of requests, Esther. It should be an occasion for understanding. While we pray, we reflect... in the most elevated way we can, so that someone can whisper thoughts into our ears. We call that someone God." (01.03.2022)

"Esther, I love God because it is so painful to love human beings. I love a God that never leaves or that always leaves me. God, the absence of God... Always reassuring and definitive. I am a priest, I have renounced my fellow man, my fellow women, because I don't want to suffer, because I'm incapable of withstanding the heartbreak of love, because I'm unhappy, like all priests. It would be wonderful to love you the way you want to be loved, but it's not possible. Because I am not a man. I am a coward. Like all priests." (01.03.2022)

- What did he die of? - The same thing our Church is going to die of. Old age. (03.03.2022)

"A priest never grows up, because he can never become a father. He'll always be a son. That is why we imposed a vow of celibacy on ourselves thirteen centuries ago, because we must always be the sons of God, never dare try to take His place." (05.03.2022)

"As for traveling: everyone dislikes traveling until they actually go on a trip. Then they like it, don't they?" (05.03.2022)

"God isn't for you Lenny. God is for men who have no use for freedom. You're wrong about abortion. You're spreading a sorrow you don't even understand. And that's the worst thing a human being can do. You've made the kind of mistake that should be avoided at all costs introducing concepts that taken by themselves are true, but which, when lumped together, constitute a system that's overly rigid." (05.03.2022)

"I'm a homosexual, Holy Father. And you want to expel all homosexuals from the Church. I don't subscribe to the exception that you'd make for me. I don't subscribe to the rule. It's a huge mistake not to accept homosexuals. It's a huge mistake to compare them to pedophiles, the way you do. An unacceptable generalization. How can you fail to see, you of all people, Holy Father, you, the author of those heartbreaking love letters, that in pedophilia there is only violence, and in homosexuality there's only love?" (06.03.2022)