Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
Keywords: based-on-true-story , cardinal , catholic , catholicism , conclave , papal-conclave , pope , roman-catholic-church , sistine-chapel , vatican-holy-see