I don't watch network television, but I am always willing to watch something she is interested in, as long as there aren't any red flags such as a homosexual or Leftist plot, so I sat down to watch with her.
I am not inclined to watch religious movies of any kind if they are being pushed by any of the alphabet networks, but I did like some of the actors in this, and decided to give it a try. I grew up Catholic, and I no longer am part of that church, but I always surprised and disconcerted to see open anti-Catholic prejudice, which I do occasionally see, and I don't like seeing it. (As an aside, to be fair, there is at least one poster on this forum who claims to advocate the Catholic Church but does them no favors in my opinion with decidedly off-putting commentary in threads. )
Well.
I was enjoying the portrayal of the mysterious Catholic Church process of selecting a new Pope, I liked the acting, the cinematography was interesting. So I kept an open mind.
When the Pope dies, they go into a "conclave" to choose a new Pope, and as the Cardinals from all over the world begin arriving and checking in, they find out there is a new Cardinal nobody knew about, and the just-dead Pope had appointed him without telling anyone else, and he had a genuine signed document, so...they had to admit him.
He is a new Cardinal, a man who appears to be in his thirties or early forties, and his country is...Afghanistan.
And he has Marxist views.
Then, against all odds, somehow HE gets elected as the new "Pope", and after the vote it comes out at the end of the movie that he went to Switzerland for a workup for an operation that he ended up not having. When he (Cardinal Lawrence, played by Ralph Fiennes, was running the Papal selection process) asked the mysterious new Cardinal what was for, this is Wikipedia's account of the end of the movie:
Lawrence discovers Benitez's canceled medical visit was for a laparoscopic hysterectomy, suggesting the new Pope may be transgender. When asked by Lawrence for a private explanation, Innocent explains that he is in fact intersex and was assigned male at birth, but he did not know he also had a uterus and ovaries until a recent appendectomy. The late Pope knew about it but hid the secret, making Benitez a cardinal in pectore regardless of his condition. Benitez goes on to explain he chose to keep his female organs, stating, "I am what God made me." Agreeing to keep Benitez's secret and entrust God divinely inspired the results, Lawrence listens to the crowds cheer the new pope's election.
I was phenomenally disgusted. They have to work it in all the time. Everywhere. THAT is why I generally avoid and don't watch network television, or things made by Disney, Apple TV, or Netflix.
He is what God made him. Ok, carry that a step further.
We are told by many that homosexuals are born that way.
So we’re trying to say some people are born a certain way. And that’s part of the story line of this movie.
But when it comes to the so called transgender people, they do not accept that God made them a certain way. Instead they demand medical interventions to try to make them a certain way. Medical interventions which directly contradict how God made them.
Just noting, they play fast and loose with the criteria for the way we’re supposed to judge people in situations in the LGBT world.