Sic enim scriptum est per prophetam...

I laughed a lot when I watched it two years ago, but after laughing, I didn't really appreciate the director's ideas. It is also the helplessness and panic of mortals in the face of the sudden huge responsibility. I have to say that I appreciate the inspirational videos of "The King's Speech" more. Go beyond fear and take responsibility on a mortal scale instead of burying your head in the sand and saying I can't, I can't, I can't anyway. There is an element of weakness in human nature, but weakness is not the whole of human nature. To oppose the greatness of greatness does not mean that a "little" must be dug out from under the leather robe. In my taste, Moretti's sense of proportion is not good. (Of course, it is not Moretti's concern for Zhongzheng and Peace's "control of proportions". To accuse Moretti as a film director of not having a "sympathetic understanding" of the people in the film also means that he has no sympathetic understanding of Moretti, an Italian citizen? ?)

But! The story of Habemus Papam came true! Benedict XVI resigned! The old man can't do it anymore (was inspired by the movie?)! Heads of state expressed strong concern, and a cardinal declared that "a bolt from the blue"! There is no story in the big screen and small world of the movie, we can continue to enjoy it in the small screen big world of the news channel!

Benedict 16's resignation speech was reportedly spoken in Latin. Can anyone help find the original text?

English version of the speech:

Text of Pope Benedict's resignation speech

Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonisation, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.

I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me.

For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers , I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff.
With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.

From the Vatican, 10 February 2013

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