People watching the movie Conclave has gone up hundreds of percent percentage points.

A lot since the death of Pope Francis because we're entering into a real-life conclave.

At the same time, I would say this, I watched it so you don't have to.

Wow, I'm my name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascentra Presents.

There was a wide reaction from people who watch this movie.

Some people have vindicated like, yeah, that's right.

Church is just horrible. The church is the enemy. And I just knew it. I knew that all those cardinals were corrupt.

All those cardinals were horrible people. Another was people were offended. How dare Hollywood,

you know, make a movie where, throughout basically the whole movie, the Cardinals are caricatures.

These are clearly the good guys. These are

clearly the bad guys. I mean, every person who has like a heterodox or unorthodox opinion

who wanted to change the church and make it like brought up to modern day to basically match the

match to the culture, they were the kindest. They were the most soft-hearted, they were the ones that had most

integrity. In fact, the orthodox or the, you know, quote-unquote conservative cardinals are

horrible. They're just like truly jerks. I mean, all the way to the point where the way one of

these cardinals talks to people, and even the way he eats, gross as he's eating, you're like,

yeah, because he's the bad guy, clearly.

The third group could be people who were shaken.

And I don't mean just like shaken by their faith in God,

but about their faith in the church.

That's one of the themes of the movie is that here's all these cardinals

who have been in the church so long,

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