“I believe in God, Your Eminence. And in God alone. Which is why I don’t share your alarm at the idea of a long Conclave—or even a schism, come to that. Who knows? Perhaps that is what God wants. It would explain why our Conclave is proving to be such a conundrum that even you can’t solve it.” “A schism would go against everything I have believed in and worked for throughout my entire life.” “Which is what?” “The divine gift of the single Universal Church.” “And this unity of an institution is worth preserving even at the price of breaking one’s sacred oath?” “That is an extraordinary
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