Daens Page #4

-Mama , this is father...

...Daens.

Good morning, Madame, Monsieur.

Sorry to bother.

I bumped into something.

Sit down, Father. Nette...

Take a clean towel.

Welcome, Father.

Kids, look here!

A real priest in the house.

Frans! Forgive him, Father.

He was fired at the factory.

Louis...Wannes

-No need to wake them.

If they don't seen you

they won't believe you were here.

Come on, Wannes, open your eyes!

Open your eyes Louis!

Doesn't matter. They have to go

to work anyway. On the night-shift.

They never go to school?

The two youngest do, sometimes.

The others work

-Good workers.

All of them. And our Louis....

Louis....

He's a porter at the town hall.

Close your eyes, Father.

Louis, get up, the priest is here.

Let him, he's drunk.

Nette! - Louis is a Buck.

At night the beat up the reds.

Shut up. The Bucks are bastards.

What is going on here?

Someone needs a beating?

If you want to, do like the priest

and beat up your friend Schmitt.

He can't keep his claws to himself.

- Nette, don't discuss this now.

But ma! -Schmitt is boss.

That doesn't mean he can touch me!

No more of this.

Schmitt is not the only one, eh?

-Louis!

-Say that again if you dare.

Let's pray first.

In the name of the Father and the

In the name of the Father and the

son and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Lord bless us and this meal.

In the name of the Father and the

son and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

A potato, Father?

Or a cup of coffee?

-Thanks - They're Polders.

Nora is a good cook. Enjoy yourself.

Now that you're here, Father,

may I ask you something?

What would you do?

For 30 years you work for a director

through thick and thin.

Shut up!

All these years, you walk in his beautiful procession,

his procession for St. Ursula.

And then, suddenly, he says:

"Get out!"

What would you do, Father?

You'd still go to his procession?

Not me!

No, Father, not me.

Provided his sermon is decent

and deals with higher ideas,

nothing actually opposes a priest

to share with a large audience.

But Father Daens' sermon

is of shocking triviality.

and I regret to say, is revealing

a shameful demagogy.

Quite right, Mr Woeste,

quite right.

But after all, this subject is only

inspired on Rerum Novarum

...and on paternal preoccupations of his holiness

Leon XIII, for the condition of the workers.

This encyclical doesn't mention the stirring of

the workers against those who feed them!

Now, Daens has created such suspicion

that the government considers to

send an investigation committee to Aalst.

What a triumph for our enemies!

-On the contrary, Mr Woeste.

If, as you say,

we are talking about slander

an inquest will prove

that Father Daens is wrong.

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