My brothers and sisters, in the course of a long life in the service of our Mother the Church, let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end. ‘Eli Eli, lama sabachtani?’ He cried out in His agony at the ninth hour on the cross. ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.
Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, Conclave
I didn’t have much desire to watch this movie at first but was dramatically surprised as it went much deeper than I expected or assumed.
And when the quote above was spoken within it, I was simply awestruck at the poignancy and synchronicity of it, as I struggle to let go of trying to control things and seek certainty in my own life.