The New Pope
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When it finally happens, the meeting of the Young Pope and the New Pope is an anticlimax.
It happens so simply and so quickly I didnt even realize what I was looking at.
For example, did you expect it to suddenly turn into a white-knuckle political thriller?
But well come back to all this.
Our problems dont make usthe problem, he argues, butthe solution.
Its a sentiment that moves even Cardinal Voiello to tears.
He refers to himself as a murderer, blaming his bright ideas for the priests death.
What follows is a remarkable, wordless sequence.
Down in the crowd, Lenny hugs and touches the people.
Eventually, he is hoisted up and passed hand to hand a crowdsurfing pope.
He has died, this time for real.
His last act was his humblest, and therefore his greatest.
I thought of the children Pius XIII rescued.
