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Jun 29, 2024 · 🎥HIGHLIGHTS | Pope Francis presided over a Holy Mass on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Patron saints of Rome, in St. Peter’s Basilica. During the M...
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Jun 29, 2021 · St. Peter's Basilica-Holy Mass presided over by Pope Francis on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul Apostles
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Holy Mass on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, with the Blessing of the Pallia of new Metropolitan Archbishops, from St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
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Aug 6, 2018 · Aug. 6, 1978, Pope Blessed Paul VI died after a 15-year papacy that included issuing Humanae Vitaeand all that came with it. His successor, Pope John Paul I (Cardinal Albino Luciani), was quickly ...
- Papal Conclave
- Meeting at Gandolfo
- “Vatileaks” Scandal
- The Red Shoes
- Amalia Damonte
- The Dirty War
- Pope Benedict XVI
- The Room of Tears
The process of selecting a new pope is kept a secret from the public—at least, it’s supposed to be. After a pope dies or resigns (more on that later), cardinals from around the world gather in Vatican City to vote for the new pope, with a two-thirds majority required for election. As seen in the movie, the results of each round of voting are commun...
The movie’s central conceit involves a secret meeting in 2012 between Ratzinger (then the pope) and Bergoglio (still a cardinal). It begins at the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the pope’s Italian vacation home and summer residence. A disillusioned Bergoglio asks Ratzinger to grant him an early retirement, which Ratzinger considers an act of ...
The popes’ fictional meeting takes place under the shadow of the real 2012 Vatican leaks scandal, in which internal church documents were disseminated to the Italian press. Paolo Gabriele, who had been Pope Benedict’s personal butler since 2007, was identified as the leaker, arrested, and convicted of the theft. In the movie, this is conveyed with ...
Ratzinger tells Bergoglio during their conversation at Gandolfo, “The way you live is a criticism. Your shoes are a criticism,” to which a surprised Bergoglio asks, “You don’t like my shoes?” We later see Bergoglio, after he’s been elected pope, rejecting a pair of red loafers, preferring to keep the shoes he already has on. It’s a major symbolic d...
In a flashback, we see that as a young man, Bergoglio, on the fence about entering the priesthood and waiting for a sign, becomes engaged to a woman, Amalia. A chance encounter with a priest then makes up his mind, and he apparently breaks the engagement, devastating her. Amalia Damonte is a real person, but she and Bergoglio were actually childhoo...
Francis was the head of the Jesuit order in Argentina when a military junta took power in 1976, and he has been accused of cooperating with or not standing against the regime as it punished political dissenters, including Catholic priests. This is dramatized in The Two Popesby two incidents from the war based on real events: Bergoglio burning left-...
For a movie called The Two Popes, it spends a lot more time on Bergoglio’s life and career than it does on Ratzinger’s. His background is conveyed in brief snippets of dialogue, as when critics derisively call him a Nazi. That’s because of his time in the Hitler Youth as a teenager, though defenders have pointed out that enrollment was mandatory an...
One of the movie’s most poignant scenes involves Ratzinger and Bergoglio eating a simple meal of pizza in the Room of Tears, which is located off the Sistine Chapel—in this case, not the real chapel, which does not allow fictional movies to be filmed there, but a painstaking re-creation. The Room of Tears is where a new pope gets dressed for the fi...
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Dec 20, 2019 · Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI Peter Mountain. Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger, who served as head of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013, is shown in The Two Popes as a rigid ...
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Jun 29, 2021 · The Pope explained that “Peter, the fisherman from Galilee, was set free above all from his sense of inadequacy and his bitter experience of failure, thanks to the unconditional love of Jesus”. He said that Peter, a skilled fisherman, often thought of giving up when he saw that he would catch nothing. He tasted fear, explained the Pope.
