Monday, April 04, 2005

Please tell me this is a typo. Please.

Larry King Live Special: Death of Pope John Paul II (CNN)

KING: If we can close in on -- what is that?

FATHER FIGUEIREDO, FORMER ASSISTANT TO POPE: Well, one of the things that really struck me about this holy father, Larry, was that he's called us all to be saints. And to be a saint simply means you're an ordinary person but the resurrection of Christ shines in you. It's eternal. There's eternal life in you, divine life.

Now this is a stool of blood of a great saint, Saint Padre Pio. . .

KING: That's his blood?

FIGUEIREDO: This is his very blood. And the amazing thing about Saint Padre Pio is John Paul II as a young priest went one day to visit Padre Pio. He had a great gift of confessing sins. And Padre Pio knelt down in front of him and said to Father Wojtyla, "One day you will be dressed in white."

And that was an enormous prophecy. It's amazing this century, Larry, because God has raised up Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, a great saint for the poor, Saint Padre Pio, and now, I believe, Saint John Paul the Great.
And since Larry King never got to interview the Pope, why not have actor Jim Caviezel on to do an imitation?
KING: I'm going to ask Jim Caviezel [the actor who played Jesus in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" -- Jim, if you would do me a great favor and repeat again the story with the imitation you did the other night -- because so many people have come over to me and talked to me about it -- of your meeting with the Pope. We never got to interview the Pope, but you had him down pat. So would you tell that story again of what he said to you?

CAVIEZEL: Well, long room, like a football stadium, and by the time I walked to him I was out of breath. So I was already intimidated. And now I couldn't say anything, which is probably good.

And he says, "Jim Caviezel. Everybody who does wrong hates tonight for fear that his actions may be exposed by the man who lives in truth comes out into the light so that it may be plainly seen what is done is done in code. Jim Caviezel, what have you done to play Jesus Christ?"

And I said, "Well, Holy Father, I've been hanging out with the Italians a lot lately." He says, "Yes." And then I said, "I'm sorry, I think Jesus was Italian." He says, "What!"

And I said, "Well, hold on, he didn't leave home until he was 30. He always hung out with the same twelve guys, and his mother believed he was God, so he had to be -- you know, he had to Italian." I said, "You're not upset with me, are you?" And he says, "No, that was witty. He was Polish."

He's a brilliant guy, you know?
It doesn't get any better than this. I mean it. Everything else was pretty much worse.

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