By Pope Francis:- The documentary documents a meeting between the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and ten young Spanish-speaking people from throughout the world that took place in Rome last year.
He is confronted by a wide range of direct inquiries and challenges, touching personal accounts, and forthright affirmations.
One of the attendees, Celia, asked, “Do you know Tinder?” during the four-hour discussion, which also discussed racism, masturbation, pornography, mental health, and challenges related to migration.
The Argentine Jesuit is forthright in “Conversations with the Pope,” which was made available on the Disney+ streaming service on Wednesday.
He responds to the numerous queries put forth by the 20 to 25-year-olds, a mixture of Catholics, Atheists, and Muslims from various backgrounds.
The contrast with the group, some of whom have tattoos or piercings or are wearing baseball caps backward“It pains me that the sentence was mild… But now that there’s a final judgment, I would like to have that case reviewed. You can count on that,” he says., is stark from Francis’s first arrival into the room in his white cassock and limping due to his “bothersome” knee.
Some of the young people cried as they shared their incredibly intimate tales, while others did not hesitate to contradict the pope and criticize the Church as a whole.
Celia, who identifies as non-binary, asks, “What do you think of Church people or priests who advocate hate and use the Bible to defend hate speech?”
Francis comments, calling “narrow ideologies” one of the “corruptions” afflicting the Church: “These persons are infiltrators who use the Church for their personal passions, for their particular narrowness.”
“Less respect”
Francis himself is scathing in his critique of the Church he serves as head.
According to him, the Church becomes rusty if priests do not interact with the masses outside of the Vatican, becoming a “club of lovely people” “without the confidence to get out into the suburbs.”
The movie was released just days after the pope spent three nights in the hospital with bronchitis during Holy Week, the most significant period in the Christian calendar.
According to Marius Sanchez, who co-directed the movie with fellow Spaniard Jordi Evole, the intention was to “watch one of the most important individuals on the planet in dialogue with a group of young people whose lifestyle often clashes head-on with the teachings of the Church.”
Even though he had the pontiff’s trust, Sanchez admitted to AFP that “we treated him with less reverence than he is used to.”
He claimed that the young individuals, the majority of whom were from South America, were chosen because “they had interesting questions to ask.” They weren’t informed they would eventually be speaking with the pope during their initial interviews.
The opening of the documentary, which was filmed in June 2022 in the low-class neighborhood of Pigneto in Rome, has a rare image of Pope Francis working at his desk and enjoying coffee in the Santa Marta residence’s dining room.
The movie contains some astounding scenes, like when a young woman reveals to Francis in detail how her internet porn company has allowed her to spend more time with her boyfriend.
Another young woman addresses the pope over the status of women in the church and inquires, “What’s stopping a woman from being in your position?”
Theological grounds are the short answer.
The pontiff patiently explains the Church’s position on abortion and permitting women to serve as priests without being patronizing or appearing to try to persuade his audience.
Francis is also questioned about whether or not he has ever desired to date, to which he replies, “I was dating before I entered the seminary. And so I decided to remain celibate.
Working-class person
The pope occasionally cracks jokes with the gathering or divulges personal information in lighter moments.
The pope replies, “It’s amusing, young people have an urge to meet and that’s a wonderful thing,” after being asked about the dating app Tinder.
Despite not having a job, he informs the group, “I can eat for free, so I don’t care about that.”
The pope, Jorge Bergoglio, claims that his modest way of living is comparable to that of a “middle-class worker.”
Moreover, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires admits he does not own a smartphone. I’m a little out of date on it, he admits.
His staffers “handle” his Twitter accounts, which have almost 54 million followers.
