Pope Joan Page #2

I should have served you well.

I thank you, Sir. And your wife,

and your children.

The Bishop has told me

of your misfortune,

and that you'd now like to send your

second son to the cathedral school.

Johannes is a worthy replacement

for his brother. He's a smart boy.

Eager to learn.

To meet such children makes the

long journey worthwhile.

Though, I was disappointed

not to find any works by Plato.

Plato?

His works are hardly approved

for study for a Christian.

So you don't find any significance

in his works?

Faith is grounded on the

authority of the Holy Scripture,

not on the writings of philosophers.

But you have to admit

our ability to think rationally...

is... God-given.

From Him alone.

Then why are you fear to expose faith

to the light of reason?

Since God Himself gave us reason,

how could it lead us from Him?

Does fear of logic

show a lack of faith...

in God's omniscience

and his love for mankind?

A solid faith need have no fear,

because if God exists, logic...

can only take us to Him.

Cogito, ergo Deus est.

I think, therefore God exists!

Johanna felt the truth

in Aesculapius's words.

"I think, therefore God exists".

And she knew her father was wrong.

Her love of knowledge was

neither sinful nor unnatural.

It was God's gift

to mankind.

Johanna had blamed herself

for Matthew's death.

Now she knew her desire to learn

had not cost him his life.

Matthew died because no one

knew how to help him.

She understood then and there

that it was her duty

to expand her knowledge and to put

her abilities to work for the greater good.

Si... Simile est grano...

quod acceptum...

The boy is confused.

Believe me, he can do better.

hortum...

et crevits et...

You are a disgrace!

Let him go.

God did not intend every child

to study Scripture.

Simile est quod acceptum grano sinapis

Gay misit in hortum suum...

et crevit et factum est

in arborem magnam...

et volucres caeli

requieverunt in ramis eius...

- You know how to read?

- And write.

- Matthew taught me.

- How dare you.

I can take Matthew's place

at the schola and study.

- I can make you proud, father.

- Unnatural creature!

You have brought God's wrath

down upon us.

Did you understand

what you just read?

"It's similar to a mustard seed,

that a man took and planted in his garden.

"And it grew and became a tree,

"and the birds at the sky

lived in its branches".

And what you think

it's meant by the mustard seed?

Perhaps its faith,

planted in the heart

like a mustard seed in the garden.

And if you tend to it,

a big tree will grow from it.

But perhaps it also means the Church.

It too started like a mustard seed,

small and in the dark.

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