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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    Vincent Benítez stepped onto the sidewalk, taxi driving away. He looked at Thomas and offered him a kind smile, which made his stomach do an unknown little flip.

    “Good morning. You must be Father Lawrence, I presume?” Benítez asked. His English carried a certain accent. Spanish, perhaps?

    “I – Yes…Welcome to our parish, Father Benítez.”

     
    (Or, what happens when Father Lawrence asks for some help from above and the Lord decides to deliver it in the form of a handsome Mexican priest.)

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    09 Feb 2026

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    “You are not well,” Salvador returns. “You are overflowing with…” he pauses to search for the word and he finds it, “grief. You’re grieving. It has hollowed you out.”

     

    “I have nothing to grieve for.”

     

    “You’re lying, Thomas.”

     

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    Vincent Benítez becomes Pope Innocent XIV. Thomas Lawrence stays behind.

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    18 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 77

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    The Dean of the College of Cardinals asks him, “Do you accept?”
    Vincent breathes, then says, “Non accepto.”

    One Cardinal Benítez refuses the Papacy, thinking himself better suited for the heavy work of helping the impoverished. This action, of course, has consequences.
    Hey, at least, the angels will be well-entertained for a good while.

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    02 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    When the opportunity first came to Benítez—a papal visit to the Philippines, framed around an interfaith dialogue in Manila and a pastoral visit to his home diocese—it didn’t take much for him to accept.
    He left the country on his own all those years ago. And this time, he would be coming back with a companion.

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    or, the one where pinoy!benítez visits his his hometown in the philippines. naturally, lawrence tags along. chaos ensues

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    04 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 35

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    the newly elected Pope Vincent Benítez retreats to a discreet house in San Polo, determined to coax Venetian cardinal Goffredo Tedesco into accepting the post of Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith. the canal city becomes the stage for a struggle far more intimate than theological. amid midnight strolls, strawberry‑scented vapor and moonlit waterways, the loyal and newly-elected Secretary of State, Thomas Lawrence, discovers, to his horror and secret delight, that jealousy is a louder language than any encyclical; and in its cadence, he begins to lose the clarity of duty, the stillness of devotion, and the silence he once kept between his hands and the altar.

    as moonlit canals witness one too many midnight walks, the trio finds the border between grace and flesh is thinner than a Venetian bridge—sometimes slick with rain, sometimes with blood. and in that shared crimson — call it rubro, call it scandal — they may glimpse the only reform that matters: the kind that starts under the skin, long before it reaches Rome.

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    31 May 2025