The Third Miracle Page #5
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- 1999
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-Sure.
When you needed a second on this,
why didn't you want me?
Now? Tonight you ask me this?
If you think I'm CahiII's man,
you're wrong. You're wrong!
-I'm yours. I'm yours first!
-How about being your own man?
What I need on this is
somebody who has to know...
is God here or isn't He?
That's what this is about to me.
You stopped asking that
question a Iong time ago.
-Do you remember....
-What?
-When you took your vows.
-Yeah.
What did you feeI then?
Do you remember?
They were big feeIings, right?
Excitement, pride!
-Fear.
-And joy. Joy.
It has never Ieft me, Frank.
I don't need to ask questions.
I know.
Good for you.
I mean it. Good.
For you. You're a Iucky man.
I'm asking You if it's right.
If Your servant HeIen
shouId need me...
of aII men.
Her heart was made
of Iove, and I....
Oh, dear Jesus!
I'm not even a good priest.
Make me worthy.
HeIen, make me worthy.
You want to come inside?
I can fix us up a coupIe tickets
to a saint I know.
Saint Bart's.
-Saint Kate's.
-I wish.
Something wrong?
I'm recommending that Rome
hear your mother's cause.
We're submitting a ''positio''...
an account of her virtuous Iife and
the miracIes performed in her name.
And if it's approved,
there'II be a tribunaI.
We may not hear for a whiIe.
I mean, it might take years.
-ShouId I be happy?
-No, I didn't think you wouId be.
You want me to be happy for you?
I have to make myseIf ready...
to defend her cause.
So God won.
Forgive me.
You know, my friend Jean...
she wants to be a CathoIic.
You wanna know why?
She says that CathoIics
can do anything they want...
and aII they got to do is
go to some confessionaI...
say a few HaiI Marys and
then they're aII forgiven.
WeII, it was a reaI kick...
...Mr. Priest, hoIy man.
-I'm not a hoIy man.
You're not.
You're Iike aII the others.
Roxane, what couId
I possibIy do but hurt you?
Nothing, Frank.
AbsoIuteIy nothing.
Don't go!
PIease.
-Give me a hint, what's in here?
-I've done my best, Your ExceIIency.
Don't ''ExceIIency'' me.
Am I going to Iike it or not?
Like it, don't Iike it,
it's the truth.
The body of Christ.
The body of Christ.
The body of Christ.
The body of Christ.
What's going on?
The Vatican is sending
an investigative tribunaI...
to see if the Church is wiIIing
to move forward on HeIen's cause.
So quickIy?
Rome is finaIIy catching up with the
rest of the worId, thanks be to God.
It is strictIy preIiminary, but
they're sending a bIue-ribbon paneI.
Two cardinaIs, theoIogians from
the Congregation of the Causes....
-Your housewife is making a stir.
-I guess so.
Have you ever heard of them sending
a tribunaI on the road Iike this?
No, I haven't.
It's probabIy because the DeviI's
Advocate they want is here.
-Who is he? Do you know?
-Werner.
-The German that we met?
-Yes.
You can get them.
-Have the CardinaIs arrived?
-They arrived on Wednesday.
There's NoIa from Rome
and Sarrazin from Lyon.
This bIeeding statue. It wouIdn't be
five minutes out of our way.
BIess me, Father.
Werner has a doctorate in
TheoIogy and Canon Law.
He writes in every
European Ianguage.
1 8 years in the Congregation
for the Propagation of the Faith.
-ShouId've made CardinaI by now.
-WeII, why hasn't he?
-Too impredictabIe. It scares them.
-He scares me too.
PIease sit down.
Our task is twofoId.
First, to determine...
if the servant of God HeIen O'Regan
practiced virtue to a heroic degree.
Second, to seek in miracIes
signs of God's speciaI favor to her.
We've read the ''positio''
of the postuIator advocate...
Father Francis Xavier Shore.
It is a Iearned and pious document.
Archbishop Werner,
our good friend...
as promoter of the faith,
you oppose this woman's cause.
Yes, Your Eminence.
We may begin.
We Iive in a faIIen worId.
Martyrdom, the great act of faith...
seems impossibIe. Therefore, acts of
simpIe goodness, a soup kitchen...
kindness to the poor...
have come to seem
worthy of a saint.
But true sainthood
is of another worId.
To begin at the beginning,
Mrs. HeIen O'Regan was married.
Father Shore's document makes
no reference to the obstacIe...
that marriage creates
between the souI and God.
-Because I see no obstacIe.
-No obstacIe in sexuaI intercourse?
The contamination of
the spirit by the fIesh? No?
RespectfuIIy, Your Eminences, it has
been centuries since the Church...
as soIeIy a vesseI of sin.
You yourseIf are ceIibate. Don't you
agree with the CounciI of Trent...
that ceIibate is
the most bIessed state?
What I am saying is,
there have been married saints.
Saint EIizabeth of Hungary, Saint
Monica, our own EIizabeth Seton.
Exceptions mark the ruIe. It wasn't
a soup kitchen that Seton founded.
It was a mighty reIigious order!
The union of man and wife
is the first bond....
And youth is passed as the order
of charity between husband and wife.
We have read Saint Augustine,
Father. What's your point?
The order of charity is my point.
Your Eminence.
Yes, HeIen was married.
Let me teII you about her marriage.
Her husband died of cancer.
Seven years she was by his bedside
as his body deteriorated.
She was tireIess, even gratefuI to
cIean up the mess of his sickness...
because she Ioved him. The
Archbishop says that's an obstacIe.
But she cared for her husband
as she cared for others.
We have many saints who have
spent their Iives in chaste prayer.
God bIess their piety, but HeIen
is a saint of the peopIe.
The peopIe who Iive
in the ordinary worId.
Let them have her bIessing.
Let them have their saint.
Will a Chicago woman
become the next saint?
That's what's being decided
at Holy Name Cathedral...
by a panel of Catholic prelates
who held the first session today.
ln the case of the woman,
the late Helen O'Regan...
she was a parish worker at
Saint Stanislaus' Church...
and has created much excitement
among the city's worshipers.
''Bystrica''.
It's a mark of origin. You see it on
the pottery they seII to tourists.
-So?
-Bystrica is in CzechosIovakia.
-We've been Iooking in Austria.
-Because HeIen was from Austria.
So Roxane's story
didn't make any sense...
because the town HeIen was supposed
to have been from was never bombed.
-But Bystrica was.
-This whoIe region was bombed.
-I thought she wasn't cooperating.
-If the story is true....
It's a fairytaIe her mother toId her
to keep her from being afraid.
Yeah, but if it were....
-I mean, even if her passport....
-What about her passport?
-Are you keeping something from me?
-I didn't want to get your hopes up.
handIe it. What is it?
I toId you there was
no birth certificate.
Yeah. So?
The Austrian ConsuIate put me
in touch with the haII of records.
No record of her being born there.
No record of HeIena Gabor anywhere.
So she couId've been from somewhere
eIse. Like here, in SIovakia.
-Nobody heard her speaking German.
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