pope screenplay

​POPE IN STRIPES
BY
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Pope Francis said, “Restorationism has come to gag the Council. The number of ‘restorers’ – for example, in the United States, there are many – is significant.

“An Argentine bishop told me that he had been asked to administer a diocese that had fallen in the hands of these ‘restorers.’ They had never accepted the Council. There are ideas, behaviors that arise from a restorationism that basically did not accept the Council.

“The problem is precisely this: in some contexts, the Council has not been accepted. It is also true that it takes a century for a Council to take root. We still have 40 years to make it take root, then.”

Not protestant restorationism.

Forty years? Contrived.
 
FADE IN:
INT: INTERROGATION ROOM #2, CENTRAL POLICE STATION, MIDNIGHT

ACTION
A single light bulb is hanging from the ceiling, a metal desk is bolted to the floor, and a copy of The Communist Manifesto is in front of the seated, handcuffed prisoner.

INSPECTOR DUNN O.C.
“I am rigid. I am sick. Now I am a restorationist. This increases the list of accusations from 16 to 17. You can run up the number to 100, and it will make no difference.

“Read it. Take all the time you need. You’re not leaving this room until you are finished, bro.

“Oh, you’ve read it before.

“Is that your playbook?

“I thought so.

“The charge? You are under arrest for impersonating a pope.

“Here is your prison uniform. Take off all that white, and the hat. You will look younger in black and white stripes.”
              
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