We have seemed concerned only with ourselves,
with Rome, with these elections, with power.
But these things are not the Church.
The Church is not tradition.
The Church is not the past.
The Church is what we do next.
--Cardinal Vincent Benitez,
played by Carlos Diehz, in Conclave
The Church always needs to be reformed, repaired. We certainly do not feel like rocks, but only like small stones. However, no small stone is useless; indeed, in Jesus’ hands the smallest stone becomes precious, because he picks it up, gazes at it with great tenderness, fashions it with his Spirit, and positions it in the right place that he had always had in mind and where it can be more useful to the whole structure. Each of us is a small stone, but in Jesus’ hands participates in the building of the Church.
--Pope Francis
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