Pope The Most Powerful s01e05 The Wartime Popes.eng Subtitles

At 00:00:06,539, Character said: male narrator: One of the most
powerful men on Earth

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At 00:00:10,010, Character said: holds a position
that has existed

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At 00:00:11,978, Character said: for nearly 2,000 years.

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At 00:00:17,384, Character said: As the world changes
and faith evolves,

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At 00:00:21,021, Character said: his authority remains.

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At 00:00:23,990, Character said: What began with one apostle

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At 00:00:26,860, Character said: has become 1.2 billion
followers under one man.

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At 00:00:31,898, Character said: He is the head
of the Catholic Church,

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At 00:00:34,334, Character said: the pope,
and this is his path to power.

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At 00:00:39,939, Character said: [dramatic music]

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At 00:00:42,942, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:01:19,546, Character said: In this episode...

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At 00:01:22,615, Character said: choices in the face of war

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At 00:01:24,451, Character said: leave an indelible mark
on the papacy.

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At 00:01:28,054, Character said: While the world
debates sainthood

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At 00:01:29,722, Character said: for one of the most
controversial popes

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At 00:01:31,758, Character said: of the modern era...

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At 00:01:34,227, Character said: history is forced to consider:

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At 00:01:37,297, Character said: did the Catholic Church
do enough?

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At 00:01:39,599, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:01:57,584, Character said: [solemn chanting]

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At 00:02:00,620, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:02:05,525, Character said: Pope Francis is the third
sitting pope

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At 00:02:07,961, Character said: to visit a Nazi death camp.

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At 00:02:11,598, Character said: On July 29th, 2016,

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At 00:02:14,334, Character said: he makes an historic visit to
Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.

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At 00:02:18,471, Character said: [melancholy music]

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At 00:02:21,508, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:02:23,209, Character said: In this camp alone,
the Nazis put

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At 00:02:25,612, Character said: more than one million people
to death.

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At 00:02:28,781, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:02:30,650, Character said: - According to
Catholic teaching today,

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At 00:02:33,620, Character said: anti-Semitism is a sin.

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At 00:02:35,989, Character said: Jewish people
are to be respected.

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At 00:02:37,657, Character said: They are not to be converted.

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At 00:02:39,159, Character said: They have their own
relationship with God.

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At 00:02:42,629, Character said: But this was
a Christian society

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At 00:02:44,697, Character said: that somehow was able
to view Jews

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At 00:02:48,134, Character said: as enough of an other,
an outsider,

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At 00:02:51,337, Character said: that they could live with this.

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At 00:02:53,673, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:02:59,012, Character said: narrator: Pope Francis' visit
to Auschwitz

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At 00:03:01,147, Character said: immerses the pontificate
in a harrowing time

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At 00:03:03,550, Character said: in both world
and Church history.

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At 00:03:06,519, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:03:11,357, Character said: Faced with the haunting
images of the Holocaust,

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At 00:03:15,061, Character said: Pope Francis is confronted

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At 00:03:16,863, Character said: by the legacies
of his predecessors.

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At 00:03:19,365, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:03:21,367, Character said: - The question is not only
what we think the pope did

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At 00:03:23,436, Character said: during the Second World War
and during the Holocaust

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At 00:03:25,538, Character said: but what we think
the pope should have done.

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At 00:03:27,607, Character said: [cymbal shimmers]

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At 00:03:28,875, Character said: [dramatic music]

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At 00:03:31,544, Character said: narrator: Pope Pius XII
is a polarizing figure.

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At 00:03:35,048, Character said: Many praise his bravery
in the face of fascism,

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At 00:03:38,017, Character said: while others believe
he could have done more.

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At 00:03:43,122, Character said: - There's a controversial move
to canonize Pius XII,

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At 00:03:46,125, Character said: to have him declared a saint.

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At 00:03:49,229, Character said: I think the real crux
of the issue

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At 00:03:50,630, Character said: is whether the actions
of this pope,

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At 00:03:53,266, Character said: in the midst
of one of the great tragedies

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At 00:03:55,101, Character said: of human history,

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At 00:03:56,803, Character said: whether that's the stuff
of the vicar of Christ.

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At 00:03:59,973, Character said: Is that the stuff of a saint?

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At 00:04:03,142, Character said: narrator: The controversy
surrounding Pius XII

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At 00:04:05,411, Character said: begins long before
he ever becomes pope.

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At 00:04:08,715, Character said: [percussive music]

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At 00:04:11,618, Character said: From 1917 to 1929,
Eugenio Pacelli,

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At 00:04:17,090, Character said: the future Pope Pius XII,

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At 00:04:19,259, Character said: serves as a papal ambassador
stationed in Germany.

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At 00:04:23,930, Character said: - Pacelli was tapped
by the Vatican

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At 00:04:26,399, Character said: to try to go to Germany
to bring an end to World War I.

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At 00:04:31,104, Character said: He didn't bring an end
to the war,

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At 00:04:32,639, Character said: but he stayed in Germany.

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At 00:04:34,107, Character said: He was helping
displaced persons,

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At 00:04:36,075, Character said: injured persons.

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At 00:04:37,110, Character said: Then the soldiers come back.

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At 00:04:38,611, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:04:43,116, Character said: - Because of World War I
and Germany losing World War I,

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At 00:04:48,254, Character said: Germany was in
a state of chaos,

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At 00:04:50,123, Character said: and as a result,
there was political unrest.

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At 00:04:53,293, Character said: There was revolution.

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At 00:04:56,663, Character said: - You've g***t a bunch of young
men who don't have jobs,

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At 00:04:58,631, Character said: and they feel like they were
betrayed by their country,

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At 00:05:00,800, Character said: and there's this violence
in the streets.

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At 00:05:02,935, Character said: [man shouts indistinctly]

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At 00:05:04,604, Character said: They start forming
these organizations

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At 00:05:06,172, Character said: that eventually morph into
the Nazis.

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At 00:05:10,209, Character said: [cymbal shimmers]

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At 00:05:14,147, Character said: narrator: Oppressive
government regimes

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At 00:05:15,848, Character said: across Europe
gain traction by blaming

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At 00:05:18,651, Character said: outsiders, immigrants,
and Jews

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At 00:05:21,321, Character said: for the post-war
economic and political crisis.

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At 00:05:26,826, Character said: In 1922,
Benito Mussolini leads

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At 00:05:30,029, Character said: the National Fascist Party
to a victory in Italy...

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At 00:05:34,500, Character said: while Hitler and the Nazis
rise to power in Germany,

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At 00:05:38,171, Character said: where Pacelli is stationed.

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At 00:05:43,343, Character said: New pope Pius XI is faced
with unprecedented unrest.

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At 00:05:54,354, Character said: - Pius XI was
an interesting pope.

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At 00:05:58,091, Character said: ♪ ♪

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At 00:05:59,592, Character said: A diplomat,

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At 00:06:00,927, Character said: very experienced
in international politics,

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At 00:06:04,063, Character said: and he saw the evil of Nazism.

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At 00:06:08,534, Character said: narrator: The Nazi Party
stands firmly

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At 00:06:10,503, Character said: as anti-religion,

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At 00:06:12,038, Character said: putting Jews and Catholics

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At 00:06:13,840, Character said: in their crosshairs.

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At 00:06:15,775, Character said: Alarmed by what he sees
happening in Nazi Germany,

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At 00:06:19,278, Character said: Pius XI implores Pacelli

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At 00:06:21,381, Character said: to be his eyes and ears
on the ground.

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At 00:06:24,851, Character said: - Hitler's in Munich,
and the future pope Pius XII

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At 00:06:27,587, Character said: is in Munich at the same time.

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At 00:06:29,856, Character said: He sees Hitler seizing power,

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At 00:06:32,525, Character said: and he's reporting back
to Rome about what's going on.

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At 00:06:39,799, Character said: [solemn piano music]

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At 00:06:42,535, Character said: - Pius XI and Eugenio Pacelli

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At 00:06:44,404, Character said: had a very unique
relationship.

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At 00:06:46,873, Character said: Pacelli was really, really
critical in helping to steer

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At 00:06:50,443, Character said: much of the major decisions
that Pius XI made.

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At 00:06:55,815, Character said: Pius XI asked Eugenio Pacelli

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At 00:06:57,984, Character said: to become
his secretary of state,

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At 00:07:00,887, Character said: and so Pacelli becomes,
effectively,

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At 00:07:02,655, Character said: the second most powerful man

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At 00:07:04,457, Character said: in the government
of the Church.

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At 00:07:06,759, Character said: narrator: As fascism explodes
all over Europe,

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At 00:07:09,595, Character said: Catholics become
enemies of the state.

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At 00:07:13,399, Character said: - The thing about Catholics
in particular...

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At 00:07:15,334, Character said: [boys singing]

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At 00:07:18,271, Character said: Catholics had a relationship,

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At 00:07:20,606, Character said: a devotion to something
outside the government.

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At 00:07:24,944, Character said: - There's gonna be conflict
over the status

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At 00:07:27,113, Character said: of Catholic youth groups

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At 00:07:28,648, Character said: and whether these youth groups
ought to be

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At 00:07:30,783, Character said: brought under the umbrella
fascist organization.

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At 00:07:33,786, Character said: - There are some Catholic
bishops who were beaten...

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At 00:07:37,156, Character said: [cheering and shouting]

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At 00:07:39,459, Character said: Who...