Chapter 263: Don't Ask

Jorge stood beneath the church pavilion, but even from a high vantage point, Rodman felt as if he was being looked down on.

Is that His Excellency Jorge, Presiding Judge of the Holy See?

Rodman immediately recognized who the person in front of him was.

The Pope established the Inquisition after Angel Cass appeared and repelled the Kunlun Eastern Demon Clan.

This is intended to suppress the dark races throughout Europe.

Therefore, many people say that the Inquisition exists for the lives of all people in Europe.

And this is what the presiding judge looks like, and Rodman has seen this one at the opening ceremony of the seminary, when he was standing behind His Excellency Pope Mario.

After seeing that it was the presiding judge, Jorge, Rodman immediately jumped off the window edge of the balcony.

"Your Excellency the Presiding Judge, I am Rodman, a seminary student. ”

"Even seminary students shouldn't be in this place. ”

Jorge was dressed in a black missionary suit, he was unsmiling, cold and majestic.

"Seminary students are nothing more than alternate clergy, and even clergy should not be here. ”

Rodman stood straight on the balcony, and compared to Pope Mario's kindness and affinity, the presiding judge gave him the impression of deep majesty.

"Yes...... His Holiness the Pope brought me here. ”

"Your Excellency?"

Jorge, the presiding judge, frowned.

"I will personally check with the Pope, you don't move around in the Holy See, there are devils sealed by the Holy See in ancient times, understand?"

"Yes, Honorable Judge. ”

Presiding Judge Jorge's piercing gaze swept over Rodman's body, and then turned to leave.

The moment the presiding judge Jorge turned around, Rodman felt that his missionary uniform was already soaking wet behind his back.

In the moment he faced the presiding judge, he seemed to see his own sin,

"Is this the presiding judge?"

"The Pope represents the mercy of the Lord, and the Presiding Judge represents the severity of the Lord, but what about the Ecumenical Patriarch?"

Rodman couldn't help but think.

At the height of the Roman Empire and the Holy See, the Pope, the peak of the Holy See's power, the Ecumenical Patriarch, who presided over all the bishops, and the Presiding Judge, the head of the Inquisition, were the three pillars of the entire Holy See.

And now he'd seen both.

The remaining Ecumenical Patriarch has now become Ivan I, the Patriarch who holds the most important sovereignty of the Orthodox faction and has recently taken over the last power from the Ecumenical Patriarch and crowned the new Ecumenical Patriarch.

Rodman shook his head, closing his notebook and placing it on his desk.

Then he walked down the hollow attic, he was still a mortal after all, and he still had to eat whole grains.

An hour later, when Rodman returned to his pavilion, he found that the pavilion was brightly lit and an old man in white was standing inside.

"Hello Your Holiness!"

Rodman immediately saluted.

Pope Mario, on the other hand, didn't say anything, he pressed his hand gently.

"Your idea is interesting. ”

Pope Mario closed his notes in his hand.

He did not criticize Rodman's ideas.

Because he has always maintained his habit of not making too many remarks in areas that he is not good at.

And because he thinks it could be true.

Pope Mario paused, and then he spoke:

"Earlier, the presiding judge came to me and asked me about you, and he wondered why I had let a seminary student come here. ”

Pope Mario didn't say good or bad, he didn't say how he replied to the presiding judge, he just described a story as if it were a story.

Rodman hurriedly bowed his head and said:

"Maybe the judge thinks I'm too young. ”

Hearing this, Pope Mario laughed, he glanced at Rodman and said:

"Being young is never an issue, and the presiding judge never asks questions because of a person's age, he only asks this question because he thinks you shouldn't be here. ”

"Although the seminary is a place where we reserve talents, it is a reserve after all, and the Holy See is actually not short of people now. ”

"But I kept you, because you are a student of history, or religious history. ”

Speaking of which, Pope Mario suddenly asked a question.

"Do you believe in the Lord?"

Rodman was stunned when asked, he was a seminary student, and the Pope actually asked him such a question.

Is this questioning my faith?

Rodman said as if in a knee-jerk reaction:

"My faith is beyond doubt. ”

Pope Mario's expression became serious, and he stared at Rodman tightly and said:

"I don't see the slightest admiration in your guesses. ”

At this moment, Rodman seemed to feel that it was not the Pope standing in front of him, but the judge.

"I ...... Science and history are rigorous, and both must be bold in conjecture and carefully verified. ”

"So, you think the Lord has deceived everyone?"

"I ......"

Rodman felt as if his usual eloquence had been stolen at this moment.

He seemed to let out a sigh of relief and said:

"Please punish me. ”

"What did you do wrong?"

Pope Mario still had a cold face, and his eyes seemed to be full of majesty and coldness.

"I ......"

Rodman didn't know what to say.

However, at this time, Pope Mario suddenly smiled, he patted Rodman on the shoulder and said:

"No one can punish someone who is not wrong, not even the Lord, understand?"

Rodman raised his bowed head, and he looked at the Pope in front of him in surprise:

"You?"

The Pope held out a finger to Rodman's lips and motioned for him not to ask.

"Shh

"You don't have to ask, and I won't tell if you do. ”

Then, in Rodman's surprised eyes, Pope Mario turned around, and his deep voice came.

"Your notes on history must not be seen by the presiding judge, who does not tolerate the slightest disrespect for the Lord in his eyes. ”

"Yes, I see. ”

Rodman felt that he was right, that the Pope really had doubts about the Lord.

Pope Mario then reminded:

"Remember! You are here to find unknown history, but here history is only in the hands of the Lord. ”

It's a reminder, a reminder that can't be said explicitly.

"I see!"

Rodman nodded cautiously.

The Pope nodded as well, and then he said:

"Good work, young man, is there anything you need help with in your work?"

"I need to go to Egypt, to the Middle East, to see the Ten Commandments. ”

"I will fully support you, the Ark of the Covenant is under the joint control of us and the Eastern Orthodox lineage, but now the situation is more special, you can't expect to go, but Egypt and the Middle East, you can go and see, I will fully support you. ”