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00:03This is the Vatican, as it's never been seen before.
00:12From the life of the highest ranking officials.
00:15This job doesn't give me much of a private life.
00:19There's some, but not much.
00:22To the men and women working every day to keep this unique city-state running.
00:27Oh boy, I'm a fashion model now.
00:34We've been filming inside the Vatican for over a year.
00:39It's been a time of change.
00:42The church is always in need of reform.
00:46Pope Francis is not a liberal, is not a conservative, is a radical.
01:03The church has faced one of its biggest challenges for a generation.
01:08An explosive report alleging a cover-up of Catholic priests sex abuses dating back decades.
01:13It is looking like in a mirror where you see the face of a monster.
01:18So either you take it on or it will take you.
01:21you take it on or it will take your life.
01:37It is a good way.
01:38The Vatican is all public.
01:38To theaste of the Vatican on the Vatican,
01:39to the Vatican's and the Vatican's .
01:40Amsterdam, the Vatican's and the Vatican's and the Vatican's.
01:41The Vatican and the Vatican are gathering in the Vatican of the Vatican.
01:43...for a meeting of the Curia Romana.
01:49This is the central governing body of the Catholic Church.
02:00Its members are waiting for Pope Francis to give his annual address.
02:30To make the reform in Rome,
02:33it's like cleaning the Sphinx of Egypt with a dent.
02:44Pope Francis is a reformist and he's shaking up the clerical establishment.
02:50He's questioning traditional attitudes to divorce and homosexuality.
02:57And he's not shy about confronting his opponents.
03:28There is always an institutional resistance.
03:30to change it comes at a price and the price sometimes can be moving out of your comfort
03:41zone do things that you prefer not to do or to do things in a way that you're not to
03:46do
03:46learn new skills well you know none of some of us you know don't uh like to do that or
03:54maybe
03:54don't want to do it just you know leave me alone or do that when i've when i've retired
04:01i think the majority of people see that what he is trying to do is important and valid for the
04:08future of the church
04:33every wednesday pope francis addresses the crowd in st peter's square
04:38today he has a surprise
04:43sono lieto di annunciare che il 29 giugno terrò un concistoro per la nomina di quattordici nuovi
04:52cardinali la loro provenienza esprime la universalità della chiesa
05:02for pope francis appointing new cardinals at the consistory is a chance to influence the choice
05:08of who will succeed him the college of cardinals will elect the new pope at the next conclave
05:18one of the big changes pope francis has brought in is his his selection of cardinals in the past he
05:25used
05:25to there was a way of choosing cardinals they were a certain position the church meant you're a cardinal
05:30francis has completely upended that so he's chosen cardinals from tonga madagascar iraq and showing that
05:38the church is out in the world away from the centers of power
05:50christopher lam is a journalist who's been following the pope's every move for the last five years
05:58buon pranzo have a good lunch
06:07that's what he always says buon pranzo and the first moment he came out onto the balcony
06:14he started with buona sera when he was after he was elected and that was that set the tone
06:20for the the style of of hope that he has been almost like someone who you can you can talk
06:31to you can
06:32confess to like your parish priest
06:44but not everyone is as impressed by this new informality
06:53the
06:54sandro magister is an influential journalist who's been reporting on the catholic church for over fifty years
07:02you
07:03mo judiths a fast as a critico nei confronti di questo di questo populismo in forma papale
07:12perché effettivamente a mio giudizio
07:17This pontificate snatura what is one of the fundamental characteristics of the Church for centuries.
07:27Now, the Church has a history that has been built.
07:30This pontificate signifies a breakthrough, a breakthrough in the great history of the Church.
07:46This is very demanding and expects the best from the ones who work in the Vatican.
07:54He expects the best of every Catholic.
08:042,600 people work inside the Vatican.
08:09They've had to adapt to this Pope's individual management style.
08:20The Virgin of Silence tells about the importance of silence, actually, rather than gossiping.
08:26And indeed, Pope Francis wanted to have this icon here to send a message to everyone.
08:32It's the place where everyone passes by before going to work.
08:37So Pope Francis sends very clear messages, and he likes to use images also to send messages, strong messages.
08:45Stop gossiping in the Vatican.
09:13The Virgin of Silence
09:15The Virgin of Silence
09:16The Virgin of Silence
09:20The Virgin of Silence
09:21The Virgin of Silence
09:23The Virgin of Silence
09:45I've done so many talari to Benedetto, I've done so many, and also to Francesco.
09:54This work here has been done for many centuries.
10:00Ormai no one does it anymore.
10:02Today it's the machines that do everything.
10:05And I still want to do it like this, by hand.
10:10By hand, by hand.
10:26This is the day of the ceremony.
10:33Let's stir.
10:36Pope Francis' influence is felt even here.
10:41Pope Francis does not accept things very centric.
10:46The fabric of the talari is a fabric of lana eterida, very simple, very humile.
10:53In the usual, the fabric of lana eterida is made of lana eterida, which is a bit more morbid, more
10:58beautiful.
10:59He wants this fabric of lana eterida, more humile.
11:02He said it like this.
11:07Without criticism, a small observation.
11:11There is one who did not want to wear this dress.
11:16From the other side, I don't know who it is.
11:18Pakistan.
11:19Pakistan.
11:20Pakistan.
11:20They are very simply dressed.
11:24He is a very simple man.
11:27He says, I don't wear it.
11:28I wear it.
11:29I wear it.
11:30Unfortunately, the color is this.
11:32You have to accept it like that.
11:47I'm going to Mancinelli, the tailor, to pick up all my red stuff.
11:52The red zucchetto.
11:54The beretta.
11:57The talare.
11:59One has to be completely red, and I'm told it's not just red, it's scarlet.
12:07Why is red?
12:08Well, I guess it's tradition.
12:11The cardinal is wearing red.
12:13The bishop is purple.
12:15The pope is always in white.
12:18I've been given a complete list of what I need.
12:22Even the socks will be red.
12:36Good evening.
12:37Good evening.
12:39Good evening.
12:39That's frightening.
12:41Good evening.
12:42Good evening.
12:43How are we?
12:45Good evening.
12:47Good evening.
12:48Good evening.
12:48Good evening.
12:48Let's try your dress.
12:50I was first a pastor in Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan.
12:56And I was sitting in my office and then the parish priest comes up with his mobile telephone in his
13:01hand and he says, Bishop, Bishop, congratulations. I said, what's gone wrong? He says, you've been made cardinal. I said,
13:07nah, come on, stop joking. Don't you have anything else to do?
13:09I've been eating a little bit this morning. I've been eating a little bit a little bit.
13:16I wanted to be an engineer and gradually I became more convinced. But even my older brother sort of looked
13:26surprised. He said, what, you're going to be a priest? As if to say, couldn't you find something better to
13:31do? You know, that kind of thing.
13:33Good.
13:34Good?
13:34Sure.
13:35My mother was very happy, I know that.
13:39Oh boy, I'm a fashion model now.
13:41Perfect.
13:43My dad just said to me, you better look sharp now.
13:48This is a rocchetto.
13:49Rochetto.
13:50And this?
13:52Mozzetta.
13:53Mozzetta.
13:54Mozzetta.
13:55I'm not chosen cardinal because I was the most capable person, but it's also the choice of the country.
14:03And this is what I do.
14:04Yes.
14:06There were always certain important places or big cities of the world that say, oh, there must be a cardinal
14:13from there.
14:14But I think what Pope Francis is saying is there are these smaller churches.
14:19They need to have also a proper representation in the church.
14:22And this is what they need.
14:24So, now...
14:25The zuccheto.
14:27No.
14:28No, yes.
14:28And the berretta, not me.
14:30Francesco.
14:37the shape is this, here it is, like this. I am ready now to be cardinalized.
14:49Look, look at yourself, if you like it, if you want to look at the mirror.
15:12You see, there are a lot of changes taking place inside the Catholic Church.
15:18We are still very, keep to a lot of ceremonies and traditions from the past, like this red hat.
15:24But these are not things we wear and walk around with.
15:27So we take them for what they are.
15:39With Papa Francesco, the beauty is that every time he met in the Vatican,
15:46his simplicity came out. He really greeted you as a friend.
16:21Don Luigi is a priest.
16:24He's been living inside the Vatican since he first arrived as a twelve-year-old altar boy.
16:35Where are we going?
16:36We are going to celebrate the Messa at the Cappella Clementina.
16:47Now we are entering the door of prayer.
16:51Good day, God.
16:53Good day, guys.
16:54Good day, Patti.
16:56Good day, Patti.
16:56I've had the joy and the fortune to be the priest of all of the apostles I met.
17:22Every morning, Don Luigi says mass in one of the nine chapels beneath St Peter's Basilica.
17:36Built nearly 1,500 years ago, the Clementina Chapel is one of Christianity's most sacred places.
17:53Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
18:02La vocazione è un qualcosa che uno sente già da piccolo.
18:08Durante il percorso di formazione del seminario è naturale che ci siano momenti o difficoltà , ostacoli da superare.
18:18Però, se uno fa affidamento davvero al Signore, si può davvero capire e superare ogni tipo di difficoltà .
18:28Parola del Signore.
18:30L'Odia del Cristo.
18:34Buonasera.
18:37Tutto bene?
18:38Salve.
18:38Come stai?
18:39Ciao.
18:43La missione del sacerdote non è solamente all'interno della chiesa quando fa la messa,
18:49ma deve essere in tutti i campi durante tutta la giornata.
18:53Io penso anche sul campo sportivo.
18:55A destra, Cau.
18:56A sinistra, gioca Daniele.
18:58Trequartista, dietro all'altra punta, dati alla linea centrocampisti, Don Luigi.
19:02E la punta avanzata, Daniele.
19:04Ok?
19:11The Vatican has its own football league, fielding teams from different departments,
19:16such as the Swiss Guards and the Gendarmerie.
19:19Don Luigi, 9.
19:21Don Luigi is playing for the telecoms department, against the administration office.
19:30E' bello trovarsi e riunirsi insieme anche in un momento che è extra da quello che si fa in Vaticano
19:53e quindi è bello condividere anche sul campo quelli che sono i valori dell'amicizia.
19:58Ora tolto, dai, ancora tolto.
20:01Scusa.
20:02Ciao, ciao.
20:03E devo dire che anche è molto competitivo il campionato.
20:21Agorita, faticosa con questo freddo.
20:23Poi io avevo un piccolo infortunio ma ho giocato tutta la partita, quindi va bene così.
20:30Don Luigi, grossa prestazione.
20:32La televisione gli ha fatto bene.
20:35Grazie.
20:51As the day of the consistory for new cardinals draws near, more of the Pope's appointees are coming to Rome.
20:58Tunga, Yarahaba noa, Amzoa Nazao noa, Farindriena Masna vemni Papare Masna u cardinal n'eglisi Malagasyo.
21:11Grazie a tutti.
21:41Grazie a tutti.
22:14It's beautiful. It's beautiful to see.
22:22I've never done my studies here in Rome.
22:27The most difficult thing for me is the linguistic difference.
22:36Good morning.
22:38Do you want to see something else?
22:42Yes, this.
22:43You speak English, Father?
22:45I speak Italian.
22:50He is the Cardinal Neto.
22:53Ah, this is it.
22:59Maybe I'll do more effort to study Italian language.
23:05It's indignable.
23:07Voilà .
23:16Father Francesco has changed the fision of the Cardinal College, in particular,
23:21nominating the people that he wanted to represent the world.
23:31Non nominando cardinali, i titolari di diocesi importanti dell'Europa e della Nord America,
23:40i cui titolari sono sempre stati generalmente dei cardinali.
23:45Nominando anche, tra l'altro, delle persone sconosciute,
23:49ha reso il Collegio Cardinalizio, a mio giudizio,
23:51meno rappresentativo del corpo dirigente della Chiesa.
23:58E questo sarà , secondo me, un problema non da poco nel prossimo conclave.
24:06Saranno tra di loro degli sconosciuti.
24:10E quindi non avranno facilità nel accordarsi sulla nomina del successore di Papa Francesco.
24:17Amen.
24:27In the Abbey of Trisulti, outside Rome,
24:30a new organisation has been set up to defend the traditional values of the Catholic Church.
24:38So do you live here?
24:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:40365 days and nights a year.
24:48Benjamin Harnwell, originally from Leicester,
24:51runs a conservative think tank.
24:53He questions some of the Pope's innovations.
24:58One of the concerns is that the Pope
25:01isn't defending the integrity of the faith
25:05that has been held for 2,000 years,
25:08but he's using his authority as Pope
25:12to introduce novelties
25:15which have never been held or believed before in the history of the Church
25:19and to impose those novelties
25:21onto the faithful.
25:25It's my study here.
25:29Great.
25:32Hey.
25:34Nobody's against openness.
25:36The point is that the Church in any age,
25:39but especially the present age of the 21st century,
25:42has to get out there into the public square
25:44and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
25:46Has to do that.
25:48Jesus Christ, in his Great Commission,
25:51didn't tell anybody to go out
25:54and hold conferences on global warming.
26:07Pope Francis is outspoken about climate change.
26:12Pope Francis is outspoken about climate change.
26:43The Pope is leading by example.
26:46He set up a recycling centre inside the Vatican.
27:07Raffaele Tornini is the man in charge of the recycling scheme.
27:34They have a way to go, today 49% of the Vatican waste is recycled. They're aiming for 80%
27:43by 2025.
27:45For example, we collected 1,200 litres every year. This year we are on 2,500-2,600 litres.
28:12Well, the cardinals who are going to be made to be made cardinals by Pope Francis are coming to the
28:18press office in the Vatican to talk to journalists, to introduce themselves to the world.
28:24Because a lot of the cardinals who Pope Francis makes obscure figures who no one knows.
28:37Christopher Lam is about to attend a press conference with the cardinal-to-be, Luis Sacco, from Iraq.
28:46He speaks Italian, English, French, and I think also German.
28:51And so we're going to...
28:53Arab, Arab.
28:53Arab.
28:54Arab.
28:55Arab.
28:56Arab.
28:57Arab.
28:57Arab.
28:58Arab.
28:58Arab.
28:59Arab.
29:00Arab.
29:01Arab.
29:01Arab.
29:01Arab.
29:01Arab.
29:02Arab.
29:03Arab.
29:04Arab.
29:05Arab.
29:06Arab.
29:07Arab.
29:08Arab.
29:13Arab.
29:18Arab.
29:18We all are Iraqi citizens, so it doesn't matter, I am Christian, you are Muslim, I believe
29:24or I'm not, I am free, nobody can, you know, force you.
29:28What Francis has done is taken away the rulebook when it comes to appointing cardinals, appointing
29:38men who aren't the power brokers, the power players in the clerical machinery.
29:45And it's as if Pope Francis is saying that is where the centre of the church should be,
29:52in these places that are often forgotten.
29:54So the periphery has become the central part.
30:10Iraqi pilgrims from all over the world have come to St. Peter's Basilica for a very special
30:15event.
30:17They are celebrating the nomination of Cardinal Sacco with a mass in ancient Aramaic.
30:22I was born in Iraq.
30:27And there was a conflict in our village between Christians and Muslims.
30:32We were obliged to leave the village.
30:36And when I finished my studies, I came to Rome and we met with the Pope.
30:42And he said to me, what are you going to do?
30:46Maybe I will be a soldier.
30:48He said, no, you will be not a soldier.
30:51You should go to the seminary to be a priest.
31:01My father had a very nice voice.
31:04He was always singing the mass with the bishop.
31:08Can you remember any song?
31:10Maybe I was singing something in Arabic or in Caldean.
31:15Yes, yes.
31:17Qaddi shala qaddi shah althana qaddi shala ma yuta utra hama alayhi
31:34Qaddi shala ma yuta utra hama alayhi
31:46Qaddi shala ma yuta utra hama alayhi
31:53Qaddi shala ma yuta hama alayhi
31:59Qaddi dac quotes
32:05Qaddi dac Nuwe hai
32:08Qaddi shaha alayhi
32:12Qaddiダ
32:13Qaddi shala ma yuta
32:13In less than one hour, Pope Francis will officially appoint the new cardinals.
32:22Over the centuries, cardinals were considered princes of the church.
32:28I remember at the last consistory two years ago, when the new cardinals were made,
32:34Pope Francis was very clear. He said, you are not being made princes of the church.
32:39You are pastors.
32:53Holy Father, in my name and my new cardinals,
33:01I thank you for the trust in us and for having called us to serve the Church.
33:18It's quite a simple ceremony. Each of the cardinals arrive wearing their red and they go up to the Pope
33:28and are given a red Beretta hat.
33:34I didn't expect this coming at this age when I thought, oh boy, I better start thinking about my retirement.
33:47And they're given a scroll which is an oath of their loyalty to the office of St. Peter to symbolise
33:52their role.
34:06And then afterwards we have what's called the courtesy visits, whereby anyone, any member of the public can go and
34:14say hello to the new cardinals.
34:24Europe for centuries controlled the college of cardinals and the election of Pope.
34:32Now the college of cardinals, the cardinals are outside of Europe and in the global south, in Africa and Asia.
34:38That's a huge shift. And I think that shows that the church is changing.
34:46To be a cardinal doesn't just mean to be the prince of the church, but to be out in the
34:51front line, being ready to give your life, even to the point of martyrdom.
34:59Some people say the next conclave is going to be an almighty battle.
35:04You've got those chosen by this Pope with his particular vision of reform and ones by John Paul II and
35:12Benedict who perhaps might have seen things differently.
35:16And that's what the Pope wants. The Pope is always talking about the God of surprises.
35:19He doesn't want things to follow a nice, steady, sure path, and a lot of people in the church aren't
35:25happy about that.
35:41At the end of the month, Pope Francis is going to Ireland.
35:44It will be the first papal visit for 40 years.
35:49But two weeks before the Pope's trip, the church is rocked by scandals.
35:55An explosive report alleging a cover-up of Catholic priest sex abuses dating back decades.
36:01A grand jury in Pennsylvania just issued its report.
36:04It found evidence of more than 300 predator priests, all accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 child victims.
36:16What you had was a perfect storm of events. You had Pennsylvania.
36:22And then he went into Ireland within that context.
36:25So the whole thing kind of exploded over that August weekend.
36:35Pope Francis will be flying into the eye of another storm because Ireland sits right at the centre of the
36:42child sex abuse scandals that have rocked the church worldwide.
36:48Ireland is the ground zero of the clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.
36:54They have been dealing with this since the late 1990s.
37:01It's not only the thousands of victims of sexual abuse within the church, but it's the cover-ups by church
37:10leaders and by bishops.
37:12Not only in Ireland, but across the world.
37:16There have been thousands of victims worldwide.
37:19Each year the Vatican processes hundreds of cases of priests accused of abuse.
37:25I think it was the toughest trip of his papacy.
37:28He wanted to go to Ireland because there was a meeting of families.
37:32But it turned into a very difficult trip because the whole narrative was about clerical sexual abuse scandals.
37:43You'd be wrong if the Pope went to Ireland and just didn't mention the elephant in the room.
37:47I mean, this is a huge crisis.
37:54The failure of the ecclesiastical authorities, vescovi, superior religious, sacerdotes and others,
38:03in dealing with these violent crimes, has rightly caused indignation.
38:11It remains a cause of suffering and shame for the Catholic community.
38:17In a letter to the people of God, I have revealed the commitment,
38:23indeed, the greater commitment to eliminate this flagel in the church.
38:33That's a big shift in the papacy.
38:35The Pope has said, yes, we can make mistakes, and we're sorry,
38:41and we're going to try and sort this issue out.
38:43Now, of course, some people, they say that's not good enough.
38:58I have met the Holy Father, Pope Francis, five or six times now.
39:05He has brought up the issue a lot and put it on the agenda of the whole world.
39:13Father Hans Zollner is not just a priest in Rome, but also a psychologist
39:18and one of the leading experts on sexual abuse working in the Catholic Church.
39:25He has served on Pope Francis' special commission for the protection of minors since 2014.
39:46There have been committed cover-ups that I could not imagine possibly to happen,
39:52even if you are honest, if you are serious about your Christian Catholic religious life.
39:59This goes against my ideals, our ideals.
40:08This is going to stay with us for a very long time, and we need to face it.
40:12If you don't face it actively, it will come back to us in one way or another.
40:17So either you take it on or it will take you on.
40:26I trained as a psychologist and psychotherapist in the mid-90s.
40:35We were certainly among the very few psychology students in any kind of university worldwide
40:41that learned something specific about sexual violence and what is called sexual deviances,
40:50like sadism or masochism or voyeurism or pedophilia.
41:01Society needs to reach a certain level of willingness and preparedness to take this on
41:06because it is looking like in a mirror where you see the face of a monster
41:11and nobody wants to really face that easily and is uncomfortable with it, of course.
41:33There is the sense of, within the church, a priest can do whatever he wants to do without being responsible
41:42for it.
41:42So because I am a priest, I can take whatever I wish and be it sexual encounter with a young
41:51person.
41:59So let us pause for a moment.
42:04Of course, this is a huge crisis in terms of lack of trust, lack of confidence,
42:11because who else is supposed to live what he preaches if not a priest?
42:16Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil.
42:18By the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress.
42:24The anger justified about the cover-up is the expression of a deep disappointment
42:31because the standard was seen and has been presented like this high
42:36and what has been done was that low.
42:39The peace of the Lord be always with you.
42:41And with your spirit.
42:42Let us offer each other a sign of peace.
42:44Let us pray.
42:52In the world today we certainly live a media persecution.
42:57Because the church is attacked on all points of view.
43:06It is not easy to hear the people of the Church in which the Church ministers are accused of
43:13these abuses.
43:14It is not easy to hear the lives of all the priests.
43:21Unfortunately, in the world of today we can think of the Church only from this point of
43:26view.
43:26However, there are many beautiful testimonies in which the priests really give their lives
43:32daily 24 hours by 24 hours, and goodbye to God.
43:42Every week, Don Luigi leaves the Vatican and travels to a parish on the outskirts of Rome.
43:50Now we walk five minutes and we are in the parish.
43:57On Tuesday and Wednesday I come here to the church and I take care of the Church and follow
44:04the kids and adolescents.
44:14Here is my shirt and I prepare for the Church.
44:31Why do you worship the Church?
44:33Because it is a symbol of the sacerdotism.
44:35It is used to worship the Church and therefore we are ready to start the Church.
44:40It is a tradition.
44:41Let me see.
44:43Let me see!
44:45Let me see!
45:01Let me see.
45:10We've got excited.
45:10with you. And it's nice to be able to transmit to children a teaching that is that of religion,
45:19where they make you understand what is their faith, and they try to transmit it and respond
45:25to the many questions and curiosities that they give you.
45:29And they say, make this in memory of me.
45:53The body of Christ.
46:00Don Luigi's hopes for the Catholic Church lie with these young people. But the future
46:07is uncertain. Across Europe and North America, church attendance is falling sharply.
46:18It's a challenge for reformers and conservatives alike.
46:29At the moment, we're closing churches. And this is a situation we're seeing right across the Western world.
46:41My dad gave me these mugs. Leicester City.
46:54These problems in the church are here because of a lack of faith right across the church, right across the
47:02laity, the bishops, priests.
47:08If we don't hold the Catholic faith, we're not going to attract anyone towards it, and we're not going to
47:13attract anyone into it in terms of vocations, right?
47:17That is the crisis that the Catholic Church has. And I would like to see attention dedicated on that crisis.
47:32Things have changed. And they've changed very radically in South Liverpool, where I came from.
47:45The church which I went to now, sadly, is no longer an active church. They've sort of decommissioned it all.
47:54And when I drive past it, when I go home, it's really sad to think there's the church where I
48:00grew up, where I went to church with my family,
48:02the church where I celebrated my first Mass as a priest, and it's no longer being used as a place
48:09of worship.
48:11That's hard to cope with. One would always like a certain permanence in one's life.
48:20But it is certainly an indication that things have changed. And the question remains, have they really changed for the
48:28better?
48:35There is something waiting for us. We don't know now how it will look like. We don't have the answers
48:41now.
48:42But, of course, there will be a Catholic Church with a different face.
48:55At the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Father Hans Zollner and his colleagues have set up postgraduate training courses in
49:04child protection.
49:05They want to make sure that the clerical sex abuse scandal will not be repeated in future generations.
49:13This is the first university that offers an academic degree in the area of safeguarding.
49:19Good morning. Good job. Good job.
49:21We need specialists that are really capable of not only executing guidelines, putting them into place, but also developing them,
49:29elaborating them, updating them in dialogue with science, with police, with the law system in the country.
49:41So we need people who are more knowledgeable, more competent and more prepared to do whatever can be done so
49:48that young people are safe.
49:50Good morning, everybody. In your groups, we've tackled several issues with regard to sexual online exploitation in greater depth.
50:01And today, as we've said, you are going to present the results to your peers, to all of us.
50:07The Catholic Church is a much more complex reality than people perceive. How can we come up with a much
50:15more consistent picture and reality of who is responsible for what and who is accountable for what? We don't have
50:24that.
50:24Girls are more often asked for sexually explicit pictures. You've sent me one taking your bra off or whatever. They
50:35are more often contacted with the desire to get pictures.
50:40This is an area which not many people speak easily. Are there any questions?
50:47It's coming up now, but still there is an uncomfortableness and a lack of willingness to really take it on
50:54as a society and as a church.
50:57They feel that excitement on curiosity and self-exploration. One thing attracting them is the digital world, the media.
51:07There is much need for preparing a different generation of people through education and formation.
51:19This is not an immediate solution for anything, but it is the start for a better future.
51:48It's the week before Christmas. Once again, the Curia Romana is about to gather inside the Vatican to hear from
51:56Pope Francis.
52:01We're going to the Sala Clementina, which is on the same floor that we're on now. We go along the
52:08Raphael Gallery, past the bust of Raphael.
52:12We're going there because the Pope is to receive the Christmas greetings from the members of the Curia Romana.
52:19And it gives him the opportunity also to make this major speech.
52:22This is what we've done. This is what we need to do. And you can be very sure that this
52:27is a very faithful reflection of his thought at this time.
52:30This is what we need to do.
52:39This is what we need to do.
52:56The discourse of the Pope Francis of the Curia Romana is always a great surprise.
53:02Dear brothers.
53:04Each year has a different surprise.
53:08In the world turbulent, the Barca of the Chiesse this year has lived and lived in difficult times.
53:16It has been invested in storms and hurricanes, abuse of power, consciousness and sexual power.
53:37The Pope has been quite tough on them.
53:41He is the Pope. He is their boss. When he says something he expects people to do it.
53:47The Pope, and to become a Christian, and for us in particular the consecrated of the Lord,
53:53it doesn't mean to comport ourselves like a church of privileged people who believe that have a Dio in tasca.
54:04Generalmente Papa Francesco si colloca dalla parte del popolo contro le istituzioni, contro le elite.
54:11E nonostante il Papa in realtà faccia parte di questa istituzione,
54:16lui riesce a presentarsi al mondo, al grande pubblico, come una persona esterna a questa istituzione,
54:23capace quindi di criticarla.
54:24Anche oggi ci sono tanti unti del Signore, uomini consacrate che abusano dei deboli.
54:32Spesso dietro la loro smisurata gentilezza, impeccabile operosità e angelica faccia
54:40nascondono spudoratamente un lupo atroce pronto a divorare le animi innocenti.
54:53Il Natale ci dona ogni anno la certezza che la luce di Dio continuerà a brillare nonostante la nostra miseria
55:01umana,
55:06la certezza che il Natale ci dona ogni anno la certezza che la luce di Dio continuerà a brillare nonostante
55:14la nostra miseria umana.
55:16the certainty that the Church will come out of these tribulations,
55:20even more beautiful, purified and splendid.
55:25This is opportunity.
55:27This is time for grace.
55:29He was trying to pick people up.
55:31He's trying to raise the church up and say, look, we can do this today.
55:37Natale gives the certainty that the real force of the Church
55:40and of our work, a journalier, many times hidden.
55:48Thank you very much. Buon Natale to everyone.
55:56It was classic Pope Francis,
56:00but it was a hopeful and encouraging message in the end.
56:07Pope Francis is trying to model the Church as he sees it.
56:12And some people are saying, well, the answer is to be very traditionalist,
56:17to project the old style of the Church.
56:20The Pope completely rejects that idea.
56:23It's got to be a Church that's relevant to people,
56:26that engages with people, that is credible,
56:29that is a credible representation of the Gospel.
56:36I always say that I'm a journalist first and a Catholic second.
56:40In terms of my personal faith,
56:43I have found it very difficult at times
56:47when you are covering the sexual abuse crisis,
56:50when you're reading a failure to handle the cases properly by bishops,
56:55and it's extremely difficult.
56:57And you sometimes think, well,
57:00you know, is the whole enterprise in some kind of fundamental disarray?
57:06What is going on here?
57:08You do feel those, you have those moments, I think, of desolation.
57:11However, I think when you see Pope Francis or the Church's work on the ground,
57:23when you see that firsthand,
57:25when you see St. Peter's Square filled with people from every culture
57:28and background for an event,
57:31or you see a world leader in the form of Pope Francis
57:34trying to bring a message of hope to terrible situations,
57:37then, yeah, that is inspiring.
57:38And then you think, well, actually,
57:39there is something the Church has.
57:53Please don't give up.
57:57We need to continue the journey.
58:03Even if you know that it will be a demanding, unnerving, embarrassing,
58:12but there is no way.
58:14What else can we do?
58:15Give up?
58:16No.
58:29Details of organisations offering information and support with sexual abuse
58:34are available at the BBC Action Line website,
58:37or you can call free at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 077 077.
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