1 00:01:00,730 --> 00:01:01,688 Oh dear, 2 00:01:12,075 --> 00:01:13,075 Off the sidewalk. 3 00:01:36,356 --> 00:01:37,773 NEW YORK CITY,1889 4 00:01:54,165 --> 00:01:56,709 Please help me!. My mother is dying! 5 00:01:56,660 --> 00:01:57,495 I beg your pardon? 6 00:01:57,620 --> 00:01:59,705 Can you see that I’m speaking with someone? 7 00:01:59,838 --> 00:02:02,297 My mother, she's dying! 8 00:02:02,083 --> 00:02:03,041 I don’t understand you. 9 00:02:03,967 --> 00:02:05,634 She's outside. 10 00:02:05,802 --> 00:02:07,886 My mother is dying, please help! 11 00:02:07,421 --> 00:02:09,423 Go to a hospital that takes Italians! 12 00:02:09,548 --> 00:02:10,216 Come on, 13 00:02:10,890 --> 00:02:14,435 She's dying! Help her! She's my mother, help her! 14 00:02:13,886 --> 00:02:16,138 Filthy little Dago, let’s go! Out! 15 00:02:45,835 --> 00:02:47,920 Where’s your father? Do you have any other family? 16 00:02:49,796 --> 00:02:50,965 Johnny, don’t waste your time -- 17 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:53,926 those monkeys don’t understand a thing. 18 00:02:55,386 --> 00:02:57,680 Two days and she’s in the Potter’s Field. 19 00:03:03,151 --> 00:03:05,486 Where are you taking her? 20 00:04:56,973 --> 00:04:58,223 I'm fine. 21 00:04:59,684 --> 00:05:01,768 It was just one of those e nights.. 22 00:05:02,061 --> 00:05:04,563 Mother Cabrini, are you sure? 23 00:05:05,857 --> 00:05:07,190 I'm fine, Concetta. 24 00:05:08,109 --> 00:05:09,568 Thank you. 25 00:06:52,714 --> 00:06:53,797 Mother! 26 00:06:54,007 --> 00:06:56,967 A telegram! From the Vatican! 27 00:07:14,235 --> 00:07:16,778 I should leave for Rome at once. 28 00:07:19,782 --> 00:07:21,742 It is an invitation... 29 00:07:21,909 --> 00:07:23,326 not an approval. 30 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:46,076 Mother Cabrini 31 00:08:46,911 --> 00:08:49,913 Your Eminence, thank you for this chance to state my case -- 32 00:08:50,039 --> 00:08:54,501 In fact, you've already s stated your case eleven times. 33 00:08:58,047 --> 00:09:01,174 Your Eminence, an explosion of poverty is ripping through Asia,. 34 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:02,926 hitting children hardest, in China -- 35 00:09:03,052 --> 00:09:04,719 Mother, this office has responded 36 00:09:04,846 --> 00:09:08,056 to your proposal. many times, to no avail. 37 00:09:09,392 --> 00:09:11,768 So we felt it necessary to deliver. 38 00:09:11,894 --> 00:09:14,479 that same response in person. 39 00:09:16,107 --> 00:09:16,773 Your Eminence, if I could -- 40 00:09:16,899 --> 00:09:21,319 You're building an orphanage in Lombardy, are you not? 41 00:09:22,738 --> 00:09:24,072 Good. 42 00:09:24,323 --> 00:09:27,826 Then continue your good work there. 43 00:09:31,122 --> 00:09:33,623 Stay where you belong, Mother. 44 00:10:04,822 --> 00:10:06,364 Signora... 45 00:10:07,742 --> 00:10:10,076 Your daughter is very weak 46 00:10:10,411 --> 00:10:13,121 and will be so as long as she lives. 47 00:10:16,959 --> 00:10:19,586 She almost drowned in that river. 48 00:10:19,754 --> 00:10:24,090 Now her bed will be her life. 49 00:10:26,135 --> 00:10:30,847 That is where she belongs. 50 00:10:45,905 --> 00:10:47,405 Your Eminence 51 00:10:50,993 --> 00:10:51,952 Mother Cabrini 52 00:10:52,078 --> 00:10:53,286 This decision.. 53 00:10:53,412 --> 00:10:55,455 is it yours or the Holy Father's? 54 00:10:55,623 --> 00:10:57,457 assure you there is no difference. 55 00:10:57,667 --> 00:10:59,251 If there is no difference.. 56 00:10:59,502 --> 00:11:03,004 I'd like to hear it from His Holiness Himself. 57 00:11:03,631 --> 00:11:06,675 Or I'll be forced to keep writing letters. 58 00:11:33,828 --> 00:11:35,203 Your Holiness 59 00:11:41,002 --> 00:11:44,045 For one little woman, you make a lot of noise. 60 00:11:45,131 --> 00:11:46,505 Your Holiness, 61 00:11:46,798 --> 00:11:49,884 want to found a network of orphanages. first, throughout China -- 62 00:11:50,052 --> 00:11:53,930 You have stated your case exhaustively. 63 00:11:57,435 --> 00:11:59,352 But I'm told you want to hear. the final verdict directly from me. 64 00:12:02,106 --> 00:12:05,567 Lombardy is the scope of your work. 65 00:12:07,610 --> 00:12:09,987 Now, His Eminence 66 00:12:10,114 --> 00:12:14,575 tells me that this is your first trip to Rome... 67 00:12:14,869 --> 00:12:18,830 your first trip out of Lombardy for that matter. 68 00:12:19,581 --> 00:12:21,875 Charming. 69 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,546 I do encourage you to take a few days, 70 00:12:26,714 --> 00:12:29,341 visit the museum, see the sights -- 71 00:12:29,675 --> 00:12:30,717 Is it because. I am a woman? 72 00:12:39,143 --> 00:12:42,145 Is that why I must t limit my scope? 73 00:12:43,981 --> 00:12:48,193 There has never been an independent order of missionary women.. 74 00:12:49,904 --> 00:12:53,740 Wasn't it Mary Magdalene who brought news of the Resurrection to the Apostles? 75 00:12:54,033 --> 00:12:57,077 If God confided such a mission to a woman. 76 00:12:57,370 --> 00:12:59,162 why should He not confide in us? 77 00:12:59,287 --> 00:13:01,122 May I remind you that His Holiness has the power 78 00:13:01,247 --> 00:13:02,791 to censure or even disband -- 79 00:13:02,917 --> 00:13:05,752 Just a moment, Silvio. 80 00:13:12,801 --> 00:13:16,345 Why China, Cabrini? 81 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:21,559 Because we've forgotten the East. 82 00:13:22,645 --> 00:13:26,856 I shall start in Peking and move west.. 83 00:13:27,525 --> 00:13:31,319 and create a body of charities that t will reach into Afghanistan, then into Persia -- 84 00:13:31,445 --> 00:13:33,153 So... 85 00:13:33,321 --> 00:13:36,282 you intend to build... 86 00:13:36,658 --> 00:13:38,576 ...a worldwide order! 87 00:13:41,121 --> 00:13:42,789 Your Holiness 88 00:13:43,707 --> 00:13:46,543 the world is too small for what I intend to do. 89 00:13:48,337 --> 00:13:50,338 See what I mean? 90 00:13:54,093 --> 00:13:56,803 And you have sufficient funds to.. 91 00:13:56,928 --> 00:13:58,596 ...conquer the world? 92 00:13:59,181 --> 00:14:00,514 Had I waited for sufficient funds. 93 00:14:00,641 --> 00:14:02,725 would have built nothing. 94 00:14:03,561 --> 00:14:08,565 Not my schools,. nor my orphanage in Co dog no. 95 00:14:09,108 --> 00:14:12,694 Begin the mission. and the means will come. 96 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:15,864 Your Holiness, 97 00:14:16,740 --> 00:14:20,034 may I remind you of your next. appointment? 98 00:14:20,285 --> 00:14:21,995 Rearrange. 99 00:14:23,289 --> 00:14:25,874 I'm having tea with Cabrini. 100 00:14:39,846 --> 00:14:46,644 This morning, in an alley, I found the frozen body of a boy 101 00:14:47,021 --> 00:14:51,649 ...with newspapers as his only blanket. 102 00:14:52,818 --> 00:15:00,450 We came to America believing the streets. were paved with gold.... 103 00:15:00,576 --> 00:15:07,623 ... Only to find they're paved with abandoned children. 104 00:15:11,377 --> 00:15:13,338 This box... 105 00:15:13,797 --> 00:15:16,340 ..is a tomb of dreams. OC 106 00:15:16,967 --> 00:15:19,552 It's filled with letters from immigrants 107 00:15:19,678 --> 00:15:21,512 Italians from New York. 108 00:15:30,648 --> 00:15:32,731 Forgive me, Your Holiness. 109 00:15:34,485 --> 00:15:36,903 Why are you telling me this? 110 00:15:37,821 --> 00:15:39,781 They tell me that.. 111 00:15:40,366 --> 00:15:43,368 you were rejected by. three different orders. 112 00:15:43,494 --> 00:15:46,412 Each time for "weakness of constitution. 113 00:15:48,541 --> 00:15:52,710 We can serve our weakness, 114 00:15:53,796 --> 00:15:56,047 or we can serve our purpose. 115 00:15:56,507 --> 00:15:58,049 Not both. 116 00:16:12,647 --> 00:16:15,900 If I made you the first woman 117 00:16:16,277 --> 00:16:19,362 ...ever to lead an overseas mission 118 00:16:19,905 --> 00:16:23,783 the whole church would Io ok to you as proof... 119 00:16:24,827 --> 00:16:28,204 of what t women can.. 120 00:16:28,454 --> 00:16:30,540 ... or can not accomplish. 121 00:16:31,499 --> 00:16:32,917 You understand this? 122 00:16:44,846 --> 00:16:45,929 I will approve e your mission 123 00:16:46,181 --> 00:16:47,890 on one condition : 124 00:16:49,143 --> 00:16:51,853 Begin in the West. 125 00:16:52,478 --> 00:16:54,564 not the East. 126 00:16:56,107 --> 00:17:02,321 If the world is too small for what you intend to do... 127 00:17:02,740 --> 00:17:07,994 why does it matter where you begin? 128 00:17:25,054 --> 00:17:26,219 As women.. 129 00:17:27,598 --> 00:17:31,601 ...without men, we will be expected to fail. 130 00:17:32,269 --> 00:17:34,896 More than ever, we must trust in ourselves... 131 00:17:36,398 --> 00:17:38,524 and in the purpose of our mission. 132 00:17:39,735 --> 00:17:41,819 As we set sail 133 00:17:43,072 --> 00:17:45,406 for America. 134 00:17:46,235 --> 00:17:48,570 New York. 135 00:17:50,821 --> 00:17:54,535 And from now on, my sisters, we speak English. 136 00:17:58,455 --> 00:18:02,416 We will be greeted at the port by a priest named Morelli. 137 00:18:04,753 --> 00:18:07,296 He can no longer manage his orphanage in Five Points, 138 00:18:08,298 --> 00:18:10,008 so we will gain possession of it, 139 00:18:11,133 --> 00:18:14,136 and give the abandoned children the love they so badly need. 140 00:18:17,306 --> 00:18:19,893 If we are to build an empire of hope, 141 00:18:20,018 --> 00:18:21,143 my sisters, 142 00:18:21,936 --> 00:18:24,731 it seems we must first conquer New York. 143 00:18:28,901 --> 00:18:30,861 And so we begin. 144 00:20:03,663 --> 00:20:05,165 We’ve waited long enough. 145 00:20:11,713 --> 00:20:14,883 Excuse me, how much to Five Points? 146 00:20:17,385 --> 00:20:19,261 Don’t go to Five Points at this hour. 147 00:20:20,013 --> 00:20:21,221 Please, sir. We don’t know-- 148 00:20:21,348 --> 00:20:22,015 I’m sorry. 149 00:21:09,103 --> 00:21:10,188 Open your eyes. 150 00:21:11,021 --> 00:21:12,565 See everything. 151 00:21:13,108 --> 00:21:14,901 This is who we’ve come to serve. 152 00:21:25,335 --> 00:21:31,132 Get out of there! 153 00:21:45,015 --> 00:21:45,973 Hey! 154 00:21:47,691 --> 00:21:49,400 This is not a place for you. 155 00:21:49,943 --> 00:21:52,528 Did you see three little girls? They came right past here. 156 00:21:53,196 --> 00:21:56,240 Look in the daylight you get killed at this hour. 157 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,118 We should listen to her, Mother. 158 00:22:02,205 --> 00:22:04,498 Do you know where we can find a room nearby? 159 00:22:05,876 --> 00:22:08,586 For you? In Five Points? 160 00:22:09,171 --> 00:22:11,255 We need a place to sleep -- 161 00:22:12,215 --> 00:22:13,758 just for tonight. 162 00:22:16,595 --> 00:22:17,803 I can't help. 163 00:22:18,472 --> 00:22:21,015 I beg you, we don't know where to go. 164 00:22:53,465 --> 00:22:54,799 Barricade the door. 165 00:22:55,217 --> 00:22:58,636 And unless you want to get beaten don't let Geno see you. 166 00:23:33,296 --> 00:23:35,548 Open the door! 167 00:23:36,425 --> 00:23:39,260 Nobody stays here for free! 168 00:23:39,385 --> 00:23:41,929 Open up! 169 00:23:43,890 --> 00:23:47,601 You think I care that you're nuns? 170 00:23:47,810 --> 00:23:50,521 If I catch you here again... 171 00:23:51,022 --> 00:23:53,691 I'll make you regret it. 172 00:24:05,996 --> 00:24:07,663 Oh my... 173 00:24:12,294 --> 00:24:13,294 Father Morelli? 174 00:24:18,376 --> 00:24:19,585 Francesca Cabrini. 175 00:24:23,221 --> 00:24:24,472 You're here. 176 00:24:26,058 --> 00:24:28,726 I knew this would come back to bite me. 177 00:24:29,227 --> 00:24:31,687 So, you did not receive. the letter from the Archbishop? 178 00:24:31,813 --> 00:24:33,522 The one I sen t t you?. 179 00:24:33,815 --> 00:24:35,900 No we didn't 180 00:24:39,529 --> 00:24:41,363 Well... 181 00:24:41,907 --> 00:24:44,241 your mission was denied. By the Archdiocese. 182 00:24:45,702 --> 00:24:46,786 Denied? 183 00:24:47,245 --> 00:24:48,453 What do you mean, denied? 184 00:24:49,664 --> 00:24:51,999 You really should see the Archbishop. 185 00:24:59,132 --> 00:25:02,009 Would you be kind enough to take us to our orphanage e first? 186 00:25:51,893 --> 00:25:55,187 We couldn't raise enough to keep it open. 187 00:25:55,772 --> 00:25:57,982 Not with the cost of the hospital. 188 00:26:03,655 --> 00:26:05,114 Enzo, Paolo! You again?! 189 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:06,282 Get the hell out!! Go! 190 00:26:09,369 --> 00:26:11,161 No, don't go... 191 00:26:17,419 --> 00:26:21,797 As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. 192 00:26:22,007 --> 00:26:25,593 Even the older ones are still children. 193 00:26:29,556 --> 00:26:32,391 The Archbishop's Office is on 53rd. 194 00:26:33,268 --> 00:26:36,645 It will be a long walk before you find a streetcar. 195 00:26:46,106 --> 00:26:48,025 Welcome to America. 196 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,766 Filthy dagos, 197 00:28:02,350 --> 00:28:03,851 -they just keep coming. 198 00:28:04,226 --> 00:28:06,436 -We ought’a ship ’em all back. 199 00:28:09,898 --> 00:28:12,360 Who are you looking at, Guinea Pig? 200 00:28:15,655 --> 00:28:17,031 Come on. Let’s go. 201 00:28:19,908 --> 00:28:23,455 If you’re saying that there is an Italian problem, 202 00:28:24,496 --> 00:28:25,956 -then yes, there is. 203 00:28:26,581 --> 00:28:27,708 -Quite a large one! 204 00:28:27,833 --> 00:28:31,170 -Now, I... It’s not safe -- 205 00:28:32,421 --> 00:28:34,256 not for you, not for your wards. 206 00:28:35,966 --> 00:28:38,301 Now, I’m terribly sorry 207 00:28:38,845 --> 00:28:40,638 that you sailed the Atlantic to hear it, 208 00:28:40,763 --> 00:28:42,348 but that is my letter in brief. 209 00:28:45,476 --> 00:28:47,145 Then I take it as a great sign, 210 00:28:47,978 --> 00:28:49,355 I did not receive it. 211 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,901 Because I’m staying. 212 00:28:57,905 --> 00:28:59,031 Ah. 213 00:29:00,908 --> 00:29:03,118 Well, uh... 214 00:29:04,786 --> 00:29:06,080 I made my decision, 215 00:29:06,205 --> 00:29:07,623 so I’m afraid there’s no choice 216 00:29:07,748 --> 00:29:09,916 but for you to get on a boat and go back home. 217 00:29:10,041 --> 00:29:12,045 Now, my office 218 00:29:12,170 --> 00:29:13,546 would be pleased to assist you 219 00:29:13,671 --> 00:29:16,506 in arranging a steamer, if that might- 220 00:29:16,631 --> 00:29:18,008 I was sent here by the Pope. 221 00:29:20,093 --> 00:29:21,803 I would not want to disappoint him. 222 00:29:41,198 --> 00:29:41,991 Hmm. 223 00:29:58,506 --> 00:30:02,886 Of course, I am delighted that the Pope wishes you well. 224 00:30:05,473 --> 00:30:08,810 But please know that I am empowered by Him 225 00:30:09,810 --> 00:30:11,980 to make decisions for the Archdiocese 226 00:30:12,105 --> 00:30:14,565 entirely as I see fit. 227 00:30:16,566 --> 00:30:19,945 So if you are to remain in New York 228 00:30:21,655 --> 00:30:25,116 it is only because I allow it. 229 00:30:27,411 --> 00:30:28,411 Is this clear? 230 00:30:54,271 --> 00:30:54,938 Well... 231 00:30:58,651 --> 00:31:00,320 This should be just fine. 232 00:32:26,030 --> 00:32:27,115 Look, Mother. 233 00:32:32,453 --> 00:32:34,121 This one. 234 00:32:35,163 --> 00:32:37,791 But this is nice too and it does cost less. 235 00:32:37,916 --> 00:32:38,876 We’ll save on other things. 236 00:32:39,001 --> 00:32:40,335 Our children deserve the best. 237 00:32:43,380 --> 00:32:44,298 They will notice. 238 00:35:18,835 --> 00:35:21,044 Stay where you belong, Mother. 239 00:35:46,946 --> 00:35:49,322 Mother... 240 00:36:00,710 --> 00:36:03,462 My name is Doctor Murphy. 241 00:36:04,964 --> 00:36:09,176 A couple good samaritans brought you here. 242 00:36:25,693 --> 00:36:27,986 Stay where you belong. 243 00:37:04,148 --> 00:37:07,025 Mother, 244 00:37:07,693 --> 00:37:09,653 your... 245 00:37:12,573 --> 00:37:14,074 lungs, 246 00:37:14,450 --> 00:37:16,243 they are... 247 00:37:16,736 --> 00:37:19,156 My lungs are very compromised. 248 00:37:20,531 --> 00:37:21,200 I know. 249 00:37:25,411 --> 00:37:26,413 How do you say it? 250 00:37:27,998 --> 00:37:29,708 Post-tubercular symptoms... 251 00:37:35,213 --> 00:37:37,591 We can speak English, Dr. Murphy. 252 00:37:37,716 --> 00:37:39,343 I need the practice. 253 00:37:42,971 --> 00:37:44,973 You’re fortunate I was here tonight. 254 00:37:46,766 --> 00:37:48,851 I only volunteer on occasion. 255 00:37:51,771 --> 00:37:54,316 I take it you know your prognosis. 256 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,361 I’m afraid it’s not a cheerful one. 257 00:37:58,945 --> 00:38:00,781 The doctors tell me five years. 258 00:38:03,533 --> 00:38:06,578 In my experience... two, 259 00:38:07,705 --> 00:38:09,165 perhaps three. 260 00:38:10,331 --> 00:38:12,835 -Five would be a miracle. 261 00:38:18,173 --> 00:38:19,716 In that case, 262 00:38:21,635 --> 00:38:23,178 I should get to work. 263 00:38:23,303 --> 00:38:25,263 -That’s if you rest, Mother. 264 00:38:27,766 --> 00:38:29,310 If you have another episode like this... 265 00:38:30,310 --> 00:38:32,186 it could very well spell the end. 266 00:38:39,026 --> 00:38:39,903 She’s here. 267 00:38:59,764 --> 00:39:02,140 Where were you, I Mother? 268 00:39:02,475 --> 00:39:05,560 Are you okay, Mother? 269 00:39:06,221 --> 00:39:07,221 Don’t worry about me. 270 00:39:12,853 --> 00:39:14,355 There will be a time... 271 00:39:16,606 --> 00:39:18,483 There will be a time when I am away. 272 00:39:22,655 --> 00:39:24,948 That’s why you have to learn 273 00:39:25,866 --> 00:39:27,576 to face your fears, 274 00:39:29,328 --> 00:39:30,871 to not just carry on 275 00:39:32,121 --> 00:39:33,581 but to lead. 276 00:39:37,168 --> 00:39:38,170 And to demonstrate 277 00:39:39,838 --> 00:39:41,256 you can do all things, 278 00:39:45,845 --> 00:39:47,930 all things in Him who strengthens us. 279 00:39:52,893 --> 00:39:54,853 Whether I am here or not. 280 00:40:03,945 --> 00:40:06,490 This is a beautiful place to live in. 281 00:40:07,908 --> 00:40:09,910 Now we need to fill it with children. 282 00:40:27,393 --> 00:40:31,187 You have a lot of nerve coming back here. 283 00:40:31,355 --> 00:40:32,897 I'd like to speak to Vittoria. 284 00:40:33,024 --> 00:40:34,733 She's busy. 285 00:40:34,859 --> 00:40:36,609 Now leave. 286 00:40:38,696 --> 00:40:39,904 Get the hell out! 287 00:40:40,156 --> 00:40:41,448 Go! Go! 288 00:40:57,131 --> 00:40:59,549 Don't come back. 289 00:41:00,676 --> 00:41:03,887 Your pretty little habits won't protect you from him. 290 00:41:05,556 --> 00:41:08,475 Did he do this? 291 00:41:09,935 --> 00:41:13,605 I need your help to find those girls, Vittoria. 292 00:41:23,157 --> 00:41:25,450 Get your lamps. 293 00:42:47,908 --> 00:42:50,702 This was the door to my home. 294 00:43:13,142 --> 00:43:14,434 Put that a way! 295 00:43:14,727 --> 00:43:16,311 Mafia boy. 296 00:43:16,478 --> 00:43:18,813 They're just nuns. 297 00:43:32,119 --> 00:43:34,495 We'll take the bread. 298 00:43:35,573 --> 00:43:37,575 Enzo, Paolo... 299 00:43:38,626 --> 00:43:39,751 There you are! 300 00:43:39,877 --> 00:43:41,419 I've been worried about t you. 301 00:43:43,505 --> 00:43:45,006 Just give us the bread. 302 00:43:47,509 --> 00:43:50,053 Take the bread, what do you eat tonight? 303 00:43:51,472 --> 00:43:54,724 Come as our guests and you'll have... 304 00:43:56,310 --> 00:43:58,519 What is Sister Serafina making? 305 00:43:59,730 --> 00:44:02,232 Rigatoni and peach cro stata. 306 00:44:02,816 --> 00:44:04,275 Plus the bread. 307 00:44:04,401 --> 00:44:06,110 Or... 308 00:44:07,238 --> 00:44:08,738 We'll take the bread. 309 00:44:11,408 --> 00:44:13,159 But it's cro stata.. 310 00:44:15,746 --> 00:44:17,580 The choice is yours. 311 00:44:23,379 --> 00:44:26,047 I've never had a crostata before. 312 00:44:28,092 --> 00:44:30,176 Sorry, but I'm going. 313 00:44:52,199 --> 00:44:54,325 This cro stata is great! 314 00:44:56,996 --> 00:44:59,497 We'll stay for a little while.. 315 00:45:06,005 --> 00:45:09,007 ...and what about your parents, Paolo? 316 00:45:09,758 --> 00:45:12,552 Papa killed himself. 317 00:45:13,554 --> 00:45:15,680 Mama died of typhus... 318 00:45:16,265 --> 00:45:18,224 ..in a wheelbarrow. 319 00:45:27,693 --> 00:45:29,402 Go take a look. 320 00:45:29,695 --> 00:45:31,362 Look how handsome you are. 321 00:45:31,488 --> 00:45:33,948 Your mother would be so proud. 322 00:46:00,309 --> 00:46:02,768 You lying whore! 323 00:46:08,734 --> 00:46:11,527 You're gonna work a double shift to make it up! 324 00:46:12,863 --> 00:46:14,739 Let her go! 325 00:46:16,033 --> 00:46:17,617 Coward! He's just a kid. 326 00:46:17,867 --> 00:46:18,993 Let her go! 327 00:46:20,329 --> 00:46:21,245 Move! 328 00:46:22,456 --> 00:46:23,956 If you harm her, Mr. Geno... 329 00:46:24,708 --> 00:46:27,293 God's wrath shall descend upon you... 330 00:46:28,754 --> 00:46:32,131 ...and it shall be better for you had you never been 331 00:46:38,013 --> 00:46:38,805 Mother, 332 00:46:39,807 --> 00:46:42,433 I'm going to repeat it to you one last time. 333 00:46:43,102 --> 00:46:44,143 Move to the side. 334 00:46:44,269 --> 00:46:46,520 I said let her go! 335 00:46:49,483 --> 00:46:50,775 Paolo... 336 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,028 Give me the gun. 337 00:46:55,364 --> 00:46:57,657 Paolo, this is not the way we do things!. 338 00:47:00,035 --> 00:47:00,409 Put it down! 339 00:47:01,870 --> 00:47:04,330 Geno is leaving. 340 00:47:06,999 --> 00:47:08,501 Yeah. 341 00:47:08,877 --> 00:47:10,962 Listen to her, boy.. 342 00:47:11,713 --> 00:47:14,005 Lower the gun. 343 00:47:15,259 --> 00:47:15,716 Please. 344 00:47:32,984 --> 00:47:35,318 The pimp will be fine. 345 00:47:37,364 --> 00:47:39,031 So an orphan.. 346 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:40,491 shot a pimp, 347 00:47:40,951 --> 00:47:42,952 while you blocked the door 348 00:47:43,287 --> 00:47:46,580 ...to keep a prostitute inside. 349 00:47:49,953 --> 00:47:53,956 Be careful, Mother, or this place will eat you alive. 350 00:48:17,362 --> 00:48:19,197 Sit down, Paolo. 351 00:48:58,403 --> 00:49:01,614 That was the gun my papa used on himself. 352 00:49:22,302 --> 00:49:25,805 I removed the bullets but the gun is yours... 353 00:49:29,142 --> 00:49:33,729 The children and I. would like to know 354 00:49:36,733 --> 00:49:39,150 The choice is yours 355 00:50:53,010 --> 00:50:55,805 And you’ve been in America for how long? 356 00:50:56,556 --> 00:50:57,473 A few weeks. 357 00:50:58,056 --> 00:50:59,516 Then, I suppose you can be excused 358 00:50:59,641 --> 00:51:01,393 for not knowing that the City of New York 359 00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,396 is not in the business of giving assistance 360 00:51:03,521 --> 00:51:05,731 to people of... 361 00:51:07,358 --> 00:51:08,943 ...the Latin persuasion. 362 00:51:10,736 --> 00:51:12,905 Of course, I wish you the best in all your- 363 00:51:13,030 --> 00:51:14,115 Is this 364 00:51:14,866 --> 00:51:16,785 the Mayor’s decision 365 00:51:17,576 --> 00:51:18,745 or is it yours? 366 00:51:21,706 --> 00:51:22,915 Pardon me? 367 00:51:24,583 --> 00:51:26,586 I’d prefer to discuss this with the Mayor, 368 00:51:27,545 --> 00:51:28,713 if you don’t mind. 369 00:51:30,881 --> 00:51:33,091 The Archdiocese simply cannot allow you 370 00:51:33,218 --> 00:51:35,053 to solicit funds from City Hall. 371 00:51:35,428 --> 00:51:36,805 Because I’m Italian? 372 00:51:37,846 --> 00:51:41,141 The Archdiocese has worked many years indeed, 373 00:51:41,266 --> 00:51:43,936 to earn the support of the highest echelons of this City. 374 00:51:44,061 --> 00:51:45,771 I will not put that at risk. 375 00:51:54,196 --> 00:51:55,990 I need your help. 376 00:51:57,241 --> 00:51:59,535 I need an orphanage with more room, 377 00:51:59,870 --> 00:52:02,121 where my children can be children, 378 00:52:02,246 --> 00:52:03,290 and I don’t have to worry 379 00:52:03,415 --> 00:52:05,791 that a pimp will smack them in the face. 380 00:52:09,420 --> 00:52:10,213 All right. 381 00:52:15,135 --> 00:52:17,511 This is all I can do. 382 00:52:19,555 --> 00:52:21,850 Once-a-year contribution. 383 00:52:22,891 --> 00:52:24,768 That should help a little. 384 00:52:26,436 --> 00:52:28,188 But allow me to make myself clear, 385 00:52:29,231 --> 00:52:30,650 You 386 00:52:31,275 --> 00:52:36,155 are not to solicit money from any American institution-- 387 00:52:37,615 --> 00:52:40,451 or any American individual for that matter. 388 00:52:41,578 --> 00:52:43,371 I will not have you begging your way 389 00:52:43,496 --> 00:52:45,206 through the Upper West Side. 390 00:52:45,331 --> 00:52:48,376 You are to solicit from Italians only. 391 00:52:50,045 --> 00:52:51,545 You ask me to 392 00:52:51,921 --> 00:52:54,381 fund the needs of impoverished Italians... 393 00:52:55,716 --> 00:52:57,676 entirely from impoverished Italians. 394 00:52:57,801 --> 00:53:01,221 I am giving you an order, Mother. 395 00:53:34,179 --> 00:53:35,804 Ah, Vittoria! 396 00:53:36,180 --> 00:53:38,098 Where have you been? 397 00:53:44,356 --> 00:53:47,398 You'll pay for what you did to me! 398 00:53:48,235 --> 00:53:49,819 Enough! Geno! 399 00:54:26,063 --> 00:54:28,691 I'm a prostitute. 400 00:54:30,777 --> 00:54:34,822 Been one since was a girl. 401 00:54:44,207 --> 00:54:47,960 And now I have blood on my hands. 402 00:54:55,677 --> 00:55:01,932 There's not enough water in the world to make me clean. 403 00:55:17,282 --> 00:55:20,199 When I look at you, do you know what I see? 404 00:55:22,454 --> 00:55:24,747 I see a strong woman. 405 00:55:28,043 --> 00:55:30,586 I see courage. 406 00:55:33,798 --> 00:55:36,675 I see it glowing all around I you. 407 00:55:39,387 --> 00:55:42,264 It takes a lot of courage... 408 00:55:42,515 --> 00:55:45,892 ...to become who we're. meant to be. 409 00:55:50,815 --> 00:55:52,942 We have something in common. 410 00:55:55,737 --> 00:55:57,029 What? 411 00:55:58,281 --> 00:56:00,032 We are both survivors. 412 00:56:17,467 --> 00:56:21,135 We don't get to choose how we come into this world. 413 00:56:22,722 --> 00:56:26,100 But God gave us the freedom to choose... 414 00:56:27,310 --> 00:56:29,812 ...how we live in it. 415 00:56:39,030 --> 00:56:40,738 There's a dead girl! 416 00:57:31,124 --> 00:57:34,043 Rats have it better than the children of Five Points. 417 00:57:34,502 --> 00:57:35,961 Rats. 418 00:57:36,588 --> 00:57:39,006 And no one cares. 419 00:57:48,349 --> 00:57:49,433 But do people know 420 00:57:49,559 --> 00:57:52,227 that rats have it better than the children of Five Points? 421 00:57:52,353 --> 00:57:54,772 Those people would never visit a sewer. 422 00:57:57,441 --> 00:58:00,402 Then we. should bring. the sewer to them. 423 00:58:13,158 --> 00:58:16,286 The problem is, I have to write articles that people read. 424 00:58:18,581 --> 00:58:19,748 Do people know 425 00:58:20,081 --> 00:58:22,668 that in America, the greatest nation on earth, 426 00:58:23,753 --> 00:58:27,256 rats have it better than the children of Five Points? 427 00:58:29,716 --> 00:58:31,426 I sincerely doubt that. 428 00:58:34,221 --> 00:58:36,056 Then you clearly... 429 00:58:37,016 --> 00:58:38,976 haven’t been to Five Points. 430 00:58:41,103 --> 00:58:42,605 Vittoria, if you would be so kind 431 00:58:42,730 --> 00:58:45,190 as to get Mr. Calloway’s hat. 432 00:59:26,940 --> 00:59:31,695 “Even Rats Have It Better.” By Theodore Calloway. 433 00:59:34,656 --> 00:59:36,616 Over the last several months, 434 00:59:36,825 --> 00:59:39,245 a group of dark-eyed nuns, 435 00:59:39,370 --> 00:59:42,498 led by a frail woman named Cabrini, 436 00:59:42,915 --> 00:59:44,666 have been taking the risk of entering 437 00:59:44,791 --> 00:59:46,960 certain forbidding places 438 00:59:47,086 --> 00:59:49,338 where not even police dare to enter. 439 00:59:56,845 --> 00:59:58,471 To each child, 440 00:59:58,596 --> 00:59:59,681 Cabrini makes a promise, 441 01:00:01,308 --> 01:00:03,643 “Soon we shall have a bed for you.” 442 01:00:05,396 --> 01:00:07,440 These kids are coming home with us tonight. 443 01:00:12,986 --> 01:00:14,488 They learn in English, 444 01:00:14,613 --> 01:00:17,200 so they can be American citizens, 445 01:00:17,325 --> 01:00:18,200 great ones, 446 01:00:18,325 --> 01:00:20,786 proud of the land where they now live. 447 01:00:21,495 --> 01:00:22,705 ...will always be protected by the government. 448 01:00:25,248 --> 01:00:26,916 And they sing in Italian, 449 01:00:27,376 --> 01:00:30,336 so they can be proud of the land they came from. 450 01:00:31,671 --> 01:00:34,050 She imbues these castaways 451 01:00:34,425 --> 01:00:37,386 with a dignity their parents never knew. 452 01:00:38,261 --> 01:00:41,181 For she believes the wounds these children bear 453 01:00:41,306 --> 01:00:43,810 can only be healed through love, 454 01:00:44,435 --> 01:00:46,603 and through an education of the heart. 455 01:00:49,815 --> 01:00:50,858 Take the case 456 01:00:50,983 --> 01:00:52,068 of the little waif 457 01:00:52,193 --> 01:00:54,820 whose body was found upon the street 458 01:00:54,945 --> 01:00:57,030 by one of Cabrini’s orphans. 459 01:00:59,866 --> 01:01:02,370 No one stepped forward as the girl’s family, 460 01:01:02,495 --> 01:01:06,290 so Cabrini and her children claimed her as their own. 461 01:01:15,131 --> 01:01:16,591 Dear Reader, 462 01:01:18,761 --> 01:01:21,221 New York is built upon the dead. 463 01:01:23,723 --> 01:01:25,266 Her mighty rails, 464 01:01:25,685 --> 01:01:26,935 her tunnels... 465 01:01:28,353 --> 01:01:30,271 her shining streets, 466 01:01:30,815 --> 01:01:35,445 all are set upon a bedrock of immigrant bone. 467 01:01:38,363 --> 01:01:41,950 Is this bone not ours as well? 468 01:01:44,161 --> 01:01:47,540 Did we not all arrive as immigrants? 469 01:01:52,001 --> 01:01:55,965 Do we not owe these children -- our children 470 01:01:57,175 --> 01:01:59,635 -- a life better than a rat’s? 471 01:02:15,776 --> 01:02:17,110 Dear Reader, 472 01:02:17,528 --> 01:02:20,196 what kind of New York do we want? 473 01:02:21,740 --> 01:02:23,993 The one imagined by City Hall, 474 01:02:24,201 --> 01:02:26,620 where the Italian is voiceless, 475 01:02:26,745 --> 01:02:28,746 quarantined in slums? 476 01:02:39,050 --> 01:02:42,010 Or do we want the New York that Cabrini imagines -- 477 01:02:43,971 --> 01:02:46,973 where the Italian is our equal in dignity, 478 01:02:47,098 --> 01:02:50,060 and their children have a chance to live? 479 01:02:55,398 --> 01:02:56,400 Here. 480 01:02:57,318 --> 01:02:59,486 Oh, but didn’t the Archbishop say-- 481 01:02:59,611 --> 01:03:01,988 The Archbishop ordered us not to beg here. 482 01:03:03,156 --> 01:03:04,450 So we won’t. 483 01:03:05,993 --> 01:03:07,703 We will live here instead. 484 01:03:47,667 --> 01:03:50,168 Give this to Dr.Murphy. 485 01:03:50,753 --> 01:03:52,838 He comes in Thursday and Saturday.. 486 01:03:52,964 --> 01:03:55,257 Thank you, Mother, thank you! 487 01:03:56,801 --> 01:03:58,552 Send Giacomo my blessing. 488 01:04:02,265 --> 01:04:03,640 Mother, it's my nephew.. 489 01:04:04,517 --> 01:04:07,310 The cops put him in jail but he did nothing. wrong. 490 01:04:33,455 --> 01:04:35,875 So she didn’t need your permission. 491 01:04:37,501 --> 01:04:39,586 That’s not exactly how she operates. 492 01:04:39,711 --> 01:04:43,006 So you let a woman push you around, 493 01:04:45,008 --> 01:04:46,301 an Italian woman. 494 01:04:48,220 --> 01:04:50,513 --Is that how you run your Church? 495 01:04:54,435 --> 01:04:56,228 I’ve got the whole Upper West Side 496 01:04:56,353 --> 01:04:58,188 climbing down my throat. 497 01:04:59,023 --> 01:05:00,273 They look out their window, 498 01:05:00,398 --> 01:05:01,900 and what do they see? 499 01:05:02,025 --> 01:05:04,570 A wave of brown-skinned filth 500 01:05:05,361 --> 01:05:06,905 parading up their street, 501 01:05:07,531 --> 01:05:08,615 with a nun 502 01:05:09,491 --> 01:05:11,868 as their pied-piper. 503 01:05:14,621 --> 01:05:15,790 But don’t be mistaken, 504 01:05:17,791 --> 01:05:19,793 this is not about a neighborhood. 505 01:05:24,006 --> 01:05:25,800 This is about New York. 506 01:05:25,925 --> 01:05:29,720 This is about the kind of New York we want. 507 01:05:30,553 --> 01:05:31,930 About our New York. 508 01:05:33,431 --> 01:05:35,266 A beacon of prosperity. 509 01:05:36,726 --> 01:05:38,728 Somewhere, somehow, 510 01:05:39,313 --> 01:05:41,023 a line must be drawn. 511 01:05:45,986 --> 01:05:48,696 Well I am a shepherd, Mr. Mayor. 512 01:05:49,865 --> 01:05:51,491 And, perhaps inconveniently, 513 01:05:51,616 --> 01:05:54,536 the Italians are among my flock. 514 01:05:55,328 --> 01:05:56,955 And the people of Crown Heights 515 01:05:57,998 --> 01:05:59,666 and Corcoran’s Roost, 516 01:05:59,791 --> 01:06:03,253 are they not among your flock? 517 01:06:05,671 --> 01:06:07,256 Wouldn’t it be a shame 518 01:06:07,591 --> 01:06:11,303 if a few permits got between all those good people 519 01:06:11,428 --> 01:06:13,430 and the new churches they deserve? 520 01:06:14,598 --> 01:06:16,308 And all those Irish kids 521 01:06:16,683 --> 01:06:18,101 on their city grants, 522 01:06:18,476 --> 01:06:19,686 my grants 523 01:06:20,645 --> 01:06:22,063 —are we going to let some 524 01:06:22,690 --> 01:06:24,400 puffed-up ‘dago’ nun 525 01:06:24,566 --> 01:06:26,318 get in the way of all that? 526 01:06:30,948 --> 01:06:32,658 A shepherd like you, 527 01:06:33,908 --> 01:06:35,326 a good shepherd... 528 01:06:36,078 --> 01:06:37,830 he knows where his sheep belong. 529 01:06:41,041 --> 01:06:42,626 Bottoms-up, Your Grace. 530 01:06:52,051 --> 01:06:53,720 Oh come now -- 531 01:06:54,471 --> 01:06:57,181 you’re a good Irish man, bottoms-up. 532 01:07:13,198 --> 01:07:15,533 Inspector Hennessy, Housing Department. 533 01:07:25,418 --> 01:07:28,796 Maybe I can show you the classrooms, Inspector... 534 01:07:55,950 --> 01:07:56,991 Okay... 535 01:08:17,888 --> 01:08:18,846 Congratulations, 536 01:08:18,971 --> 01:08:20,598 you’ve broken 14 city codes 537 01:08:20,723 --> 01:08:21,933 and stuffed 71 children 538 01:08:22,058 --> 01:08:24,143 into a space appropriate for 20. 539 01:08:24,895 --> 01:08:26,563 Italians like to stay close. 540 01:08:27,438 --> 01:08:29,106 It’s unsanitary. 541 01:08:29,483 --> 01:08:30,985 Then surely you’d like to inspect 542 01:08:31,110 --> 01:08:32,903 the cellars where they used to live. 543 01:08:33,028 --> 01:08:34,988 What I’d like you to do is to keep your crime 544 01:08:35,113 --> 01:08:37,533 and your filth out of this neighborhood. 545 01:08:38,366 --> 01:08:39,785 What crime? 546 01:08:41,453 --> 01:08:43,455 You have seven days to make all modifications 547 01:08:43,580 --> 01:08:45,665 and pay all fines or you will be evicted at once. 548 01:08:46,333 --> 01:08:47,416 At which time, 549 01:08:47,543 --> 01:08:48,918 you can move back to Five Points, 550 01:08:49,043 --> 01:08:51,463 pack’em in there like herrings in a barrel. 551 01:09:08,105 --> 01:09:10,856 You’ve acted in direct disobedience, Mother. 552 01:09:12,150 --> 01:09:14,611 I was ordered not to solicit Americans, 553 01:09:14,736 --> 01:09:15,946 and I did not. 554 01:09:16,446 --> 01:09:17,740 America came to me. 555 01:09:17,865 --> 01:09:20,283 Oh, that’s clever. 556 01:09:21,576 --> 01:09:22,995 But you’ve strayed into waters 557 01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:24,996 that are far too deep for you. 558 01:09:25,746 --> 01:09:27,415 Maybe you could run to the papers again, 559 01:09:27,540 --> 01:09:30,543 maybe you could raise enough to pay the fines, 560 01:09:30,668 --> 01:09:33,088 but the Mayor will find a way to get you out 561 01:09:34,340 --> 01:09:36,716 -- if he has to have his rowdies plant 562 01:09:36,841 --> 01:09:39,886 a dead body in your yard, he will get you out 563 01:09:40,011 --> 01:09:42,765 -- and your children will be right back in the rubbish dump. 564 01:09:45,016 --> 01:09:47,978 Now, I don’t want to see that any more than you do. 565 01:09:49,271 --> 01:09:52,023 So, I have a proposition. 566 01:09:53,108 --> 01:09:57,738 The Jesuits own a property just north of here, 567 01:09:59,030 --> 01:10:02,450 one they’d be willing to part with at a discount, 568 01:10:02,575 --> 01:10:06,663 but only for the right cause. 569 01:10:12,878 --> 01:10:16,506 There’s fifteen acres, 570 01:10:16,631 --> 01:10:20,010 views of the Hudson, and room to play. 571 01:10:23,180 --> 01:10:26,225 You know I couldn’t possibly afford this. 572 01:10:26,350 --> 01:10:28,185 How much can you afford? 573 01:10:29,101 --> 01:10:31,396 Have you come to make fun of me...? 574 01:10:31,521 --> 01:10:32,898 Let me ask this way 575 01:10:33,023 --> 01:10:35,566 -- how much do you have right now in your bank account? 576 01:10:37,861 --> 01:10:41,406 Nine hundred sixteen dollars and twelve cents. 577 01:10:41,531 --> 01:10:42,240 Mostly pennies. 578 01:10:42,365 --> 01:10:43,783 Let’s call it a thousand, 579 01:10:43,908 --> 01:10:47,286 I’ll chip in the difference. 580 01:10:47,411 --> 01:10:49,456 And the Jesuits, they will accept, but... 581 01:10:52,125 --> 01:10:56,796 the property does have a certain... 582 01:10:58,465 --> 01:11:00,008 Well, it’s a challenge. 583 01:11:00,133 --> 01:11:01,885 So how about we just discuss 584 01:11:02,010 --> 01:11:04,178 that while we’re there, shall we? 585 01:11:04,303 --> 01:11:05,013 Hmm? 586 01:12:43,611 --> 01:12:44,696 Well...? 587 01:12:58,585 --> 01:13:00,295 I shall be buried here. 588 01:13:06,091 --> 01:13:07,760 May I meet you at the carriage? 589 01:13:57,643 --> 01:13:59,145 Yes, those are the wells. 590 01:14:00,563 --> 01:14:02,190 As I said, there is a challenge. 591 01:14:03,608 --> 01:14:06,026 There’s no water? None at all? 592 01:14:06,861 --> 01:14:09,196 The Jesuits spent a lot of money looking. 593 01:14:10,031 --> 01:14:12,033 But they had 300 men. 594 01:14:12,575 --> 01:14:14,870 Far too many to support without a well. 595 01:14:15,995 --> 01:14:17,956 If you keep your numbers low, 596 01:14:18,290 --> 01:14:20,041 maybe you can find a way. 597 01:14:24,295 --> 01:14:25,838 The Jesuits failed. 598 01:14:26,590 --> 01:14:28,800 That does not mean we will. 599 01:14:42,563 --> 01:14:44,691 The Jesuits dug here, 600 01:14:44,816 --> 01:14:46,108 and on the south side. 601 01:14:46,235 --> 01:14:47,986 So we will start from the north. 602 01:14:48,111 --> 01:14:50,488 They dug every fifteen meters, 603 01:14:50,613 --> 01:14:52,615 we will have to dig every ten meters. 604 01:14:53,700 --> 01:14:55,285 Umilia, establish two shifts, 605 01:14:55,493 --> 01:14:57,620 and work your way south. 606 01:14:57,745 --> 01:14:59,205 The older children can also help 607 01:14:59,330 --> 01:15:00,790 when they’re free from class. 608 01:15:04,085 --> 01:15:06,755 In the meantime, we will make the river work for us. 609 01:16:03,235 --> 01:16:05,695 It's two in the morning. 610 01:16:10,026 --> 01:16:11,820 Want to join me? 611 01:16:41,398 --> 01:16:43,566 You should d rest more. 612 01:16:47,988 --> 01:16:51,199 You're dying. Why aren't you a afraid? 613 01:16:52,618 --> 01:16:54,952 Of course I'm afraid. 614 01:16:56,580 --> 01:16:59,665 That's why I'm out here digging. 615 01:17:03,462 --> 01:17:07,089 When I work it seems like.... 616 01:17:08,217 --> 01:17:11,219 I'm stealing one more day of life. 617 01:17:14,848 --> 01:17:17,433 If I rest... 618 01:17:19,102 --> 01:17:22,188 that's when dying becomes.. 619 01:17:23,398 --> 01:17:25,149 ...very, very real. 620 01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:35,326 We just moved in 621 01:17:35,869 --> 01:17:38,371 to this huge, huge place.. 622 01:17:39,748 --> 01:17:43,000 and we already barely fit. 623 01:17:43,835 --> 01:17:46,921 She just keeps bringing in more kids. 624 01:17:47,798 --> 01:17:49,382 She's crazy. 625 01:17:50,759 --> 01:17:53,761 We should help her somehow. 626 01:17:55,013 --> 01:17:56,764 Can you find us some work? 627 01:18:10,821 --> 01:18:11,654 Bro! 628 01:18:12,114 --> 01:18:13,489 They'll take us both. 629 01:18:13,740 --> 01:18:16,075 Twenty cents for the night shift! 630 01:18:16,451 --> 01:18:17,660 Perfect! What are we doing? 631 01:18:18,704 --> 01:18:20,705 Faster, boys! Faster! 632 01:18:20,956 --> 01:18:22,456 Keep that boiler hot! 633 01:18:22,749 --> 01:18:24,208 Or I toss you out! 634 01:18:33,552 --> 01:18:34,427 Go! Go! 635 01:18:34,553 --> 01:18:35,428 Now! 636 01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:32,902 Have you seen Enzo? 637 01:19:52,415 --> 01:19:53,708 Keep that tight. 638 01:19:53,833 --> 01:19:55,293 Mother! 639 01:19:56,711 --> 01:19:58,505 I need someone to go to Mt. Carmel. 640 01:19:58,630 --> 01:20:01,131 Now! Tell them I need morphine and chloroform! 641 01:20:01,883 --> 01:20:03,091 And doctors! 642 01:20:05,386 --> 01:20:06,930 Concetta. 643 01:20:15,396 --> 01:20:16,480 I can pay, please. 644 01:20:16,606 --> 01:20:17,856 We are not a supply store. 645 01:20:17,981 --> 01:20:19,316 But we need help! 646 01:20:19,441 --> 01:20:20,568 Sorry. We can’t help. 647 01:20:20,693 --> 01:20:21,945 We need doctors! Please! 648 01:20:22,070 --> 01:20:23,613 People are dying! 649 01:20:47,602 --> 01:20:49,478 I found Enzo! 650 01:22:08,725 --> 01:22:11,185 I You wrote to me.. 651 01:22:11,853 --> 01:22:16,732 ...that my girl is calling for me 652 01:22:18,193 --> 01:22:20,736 the one who left her behind.. 653 01:22:21,238 --> 01:22:25,741 ...is still far away. 654 01:22:26,660 --> 01:22:29,453 No, I won't be coming back to her. 655 01:22:29,913 --> 01:22:34,375 I'll stay gone 656 01:22:35,585 --> 01:22:43,342 and keep on working for us all.. 657 01:22:43,927 --> 01:22:51,850 I have lost my home. my homeland and my honor... 658 01:22:53,353 --> 01:22:58,399 I'm butchers meat. 659 01:22:59,234 --> 01:23:05,114 I am an immigrant. 660 01:23:18,245 --> 01:23:19,871 The explosion pushed Morelli over the edge. 661 01:23:21,540 --> 01:23:22,333 As far as I can tell, 662 01:23:22,458 --> 01:23:23,710 the hospital’s bankrupt. 663 01:23:24,876 --> 01:23:27,421 He plans to shut it down, go back to Italy. 664 01:23:29,090 --> 01:23:30,550 But they need that hospital. 665 01:23:32,051 --> 01:23:34,303 Even if it’s just a place to die. 666 01:23:35,846 --> 01:23:37,431 That’s more or less why I’ve come. 667 01:23:38,766 --> 01:23:41,476 I know it’s mad to even think about it... 668 01:23:42,436 --> 01:23:44,355 but if anyone could make a go of it... 669 01:23:45,440 --> 01:23:46,858 it’d be you. 670 01:23:54,323 --> 01:23:57,868 We live bucket-by-bucket, Dr. Murphy. 671 01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:01,873 I couldn’t possibly take on a hospital. 672 01:24:08,671 --> 01:24:10,506 Here’s the cold hard truth. 673 01:24:12,633 --> 01:24:14,926 If that had been Mt. Carmel Hospital, 674 01:24:16,261 --> 01:24:17,763 Enzo would be alive. 675 01:24:19,515 --> 01:24:21,558 As would a good many of those men. 676 01:24:31,945 --> 01:24:35,906 My lunch begins in an hour and fifty-three minutes, 677 01:24:36,281 --> 01:24:38,660 not nearly enough time for me to list all the reasons 678 01:24:38,785 --> 01:24:41,703 this bank will never make a loan to anyone who looks, 679 01:24:42,163 --> 01:24:45,708 smells, walks, or talks like you. 680 01:24:48,586 --> 01:24:50,546 If you’re asking my permission, 681 01:24:51,380 --> 01:24:53,090 I won’t stop you. 682 01:24:53,215 --> 01:24:55,050 If you’re asking my advice, 683 01:24:55,468 --> 01:24:57,970 I think that you are barking mad. 684 01:24:59,971 --> 01:25:01,473 Why even consider it? 685 01:25:03,100 --> 01:25:07,355 Because people died that should not have. 686 01:25:08,856 --> 01:25:10,941 How can we sleep knowing that? 687 01:25:13,861 --> 01:25:15,238 I need funding. 688 01:25:16,571 --> 01:25:18,323 From Americans! 689 01:25:19,283 --> 01:25:19,950 No. 690 01:25:24,170 --> 01:25:27,256 We don't make loans. 691 01:25:27,382 --> 01:25:28,841 Then what about the Italian Senate? 692 01:25:29,134 --> 01:25:31,885 I can go to Rome,. I can sail tomorrow. 693 01:25:32,303 --> 01:25:35,848 I wouldn't sail to Rome to hear it. 694 01:27:12,396 --> 01:27:13,230 May I help you? 695 01:27:13,355 --> 01:27:15,441 I am here to see signore DiSalvo. 696 01:27:15,566 --> 01:27:16,816 I’m sorry but Mr. DiSalvo 697 01:27:16,941 --> 01:27:18,695 does not accept any uninvited guests. 698 01:27:18,820 --> 01:27:19,528 I’m sure he won’t mind! 699 01:27:19,653 --> 01:27:22,156 To Americans, the great Verdi, Puccini, 700 01:27:22,281 --> 01:27:23,323 Michelangelo, DaVinci, 701 01:27:23,448 --> 01:27:24,700 they are one thing. 702 01:27:25,660 --> 01:27:27,453 The men digging tunnels, 703 01:27:27,578 --> 01:27:28,663 dying without a doctor, 704 01:27:29,871 --> 01:27:32,041 these men are quite another. 705 01:27:33,166 --> 01:27:34,376 Poor men, 706 01:27:35,001 --> 01:27:36,545 from Sicily, 707 01:27:36,670 --> 01:27:38,130 like you were. 708 01:27:40,173 --> 01:27:44,386 We have to show America that we are all people of dignity. 709 01:27:47,598 --> 01:27:49,475 As indeed we are. 710 01:27:51,560 --> 01:27:52,686 But I’m afraid 711 01:27:52,811 --> 01:27:55,440 I will not participate in your adventure. 712 01:27:55,565 --> 01:27:57,316 Now, if you’ll excuse me 713 01:27:57,441 --> 01:27:59,193 it’s time for me to go to the Opera. 714 01:27:59,318 --> 01:28:01,111 This is about helping your people... 715 01:28:01,236 --> 01:28:03,280 I have never been late to the theater 716 01:28:03,405 --> 01:28:04,823 and today is not going to be the first. 717 01:28:04,948 --> 01:28:06,783 But you must understand, this is not an issue you can just- 718 01:28:06,908 --> 01:28:08,076 No, no, no. 719 01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:10,830 -- you must understand. 720 01:28:13,206 --> 01:28:15,418 I will never participate in any scheme 721 01:28:15,543 --> 01:28:17,420 that involves... the church. 722 01:28:21,423 --> 01:28:22,508 Show her out. 723 01:29:09,930 --> 01:29:11,223 Evening George. 724 01:29:17,938 --> 01:29:20,023 Dr. Murphy. - Yeah. 725 01:29:21,775 --> 01:29:22,901 May I have a moment? 726 01:29:23,276 --> 01:29:25,530 No one is going to invest in a failed hospital, 727 01:29:25,738 --> 01:29:28,448 in a rat-infested building that was once a brothel. 728 01:29:29,491 --> 01:29:32,828 But we could found a hospital like this one, a great one. 729 01:29:34,121 --> 01:29:35,456 How would we begin? 730 01:29:35,831 --> 01:29:37,333 We would need a real building 731 01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:40,961 with a board of directors comprised of men of influence, 732 01:29:41,086 --> 01:29:43,213 who are also sons of immigrants 733 01:29:43,338 --> 01:29:45,550 -- Irish, Polish, Jewish. 734 01:29:47,676 --> 01:29:49,095 Can you introduce me to such men? 735 01:29:52,973 --> 01:29:56,601 - My father came here from Ireland to work the rails. 736 01:29:57,728 --> 01:29:59,021 Cheap labor, 737 01:29:59,646 --> 01:30:01,065 disposable,... 738 01:30:01,731 --> 01:30:04,110 just like the Italians in that pump station. 739 01:30:06,528 --> 01:30:10,991 I figure anyone who came here on a boat, anyone at all, 740 01:30:12,075 --> 01:30:13,785 I owe them a hand. 741 01:30:15,036 --> 01:30:17,581 As does Mother Cabrini. 742 01:30:26,173 --> 01:30:28,591 When I stepped off the boat, 743 01:30:30,803 --> 01:30:33,388 gentlemen, not so long ago, 744 01:30:35,431 --> 01:30:38,476 I had to learn words that were not in my dictionary. 745 01:30:40,605 --> 01:30:43,190 Dago. Guinea pig. 746 01:30:45,275 --> 01:30:48,403 Words said with such disdain, such hate, 747 01:30:50,531 --> 01:30:52,991 that they cut just like a knife. 748 01:30:55,786 --> 01:30:59,040 When your fathers first came here 749 01:30:59,873 --> 01:31:02,835 did they not also have to learn words 750 01:31:03,460 --> 01:31:10,508 such as Kike, Mick, Polack? 751 01:31:12,176 --> 01:31:13,511 And even now, 752 01:31:13,636 --> 01:31:15,513 in this fine neighborhood -- 753 01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:17,181 don’t you still hear 754 01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:20,728 those names whispered behind your back? 755 01:31:24,023 --> 01:31:27,693 I ask you to take those names, and turn them into a hospital. 756 01:31:29,195 --> 01:31:31,905 I propose purchasing this property 757 01:31:32,071 --> 01:31:34,658 and renovating it for 400 beds, 758 01:31:35,033 --> 01:31:37,995 with services fine enough to attract the wealthy. 759 01:31:38,453 --> 01:31:40,205 The fees we earn here, 760 01:31:40,455 --> 01:31:42,123 we use to fund the needs 761 01:31:42,291 --> 01:31:44,876 of the immigrant with nothing. 762 01:31:45,586 --> 01:31:49,048 Who will also be treated by the finest doctors, 763 01:31:50,298 --> 01:31:52,968 so that America will learn 764 01:31:54,095 --> 01:31:57,806 we are more than Kike and Polack and butcher’s meat. 765 01:32:00,976 --> 01:32:02,353 But you don’t even have the funds 766 01:32:02,478 --> 01:32:04,563 to sustain the hospital in Five Points. 767 01:32:09,610 --> 01:32:13,155 Begin the mission and the means will come. 768 01:32:16,241 --> 01:32:18,701 This mission begins tonight, 769 01:32:19,745 --> 01:32:21,038 in this room, 770 01:32:22,415 --> 01:32:23,790 with you, gentlemen -- 771 01:32:25,208 --> 01:32:27,251 or it does not begin at all. 772 01:32:34,385 --> 01:32:36,678 Gentlemen, have you all met? 773 01:32:38,346 --> 01:32:39,390 Thank you for being here. 774 01:32:39,515 --> 01:32:40,515 As you can see... 775 01:32:49,691 --> 01:32:50,818 ...pediatrics. 776 01:32:50,943 --> 01:32:52,486 ...and if Abrams makes a pledge 777 01:32:52,611 --> 01:32:53,903 I see no reason why his colleagues 778 01:32:54,030 --> 01:32:55,238 wouldn’t follow suit. 779 01:32:56,115 --> 01:32:59,201 It won’t put a dent in the grand total but... 780 01:33:00,118 --> 01:33:01,161 it’s a start. 781 01:33:01,495 --> 01:33:03,246 Dr. Murphy... 782 01:33:03,913 --> 01:33:07,501 see if you can add another zero to his pledge. 783 01:33:37,781 --> 01:33:40,491 There are 200 here. 784 01:33:40,616 --> 01:33:42,453 And with the pledges that came in this week, 785 01:33:42,578 --> 01:33:44,371 it’s... 617- 786 01:35:48,669 --> 01:35:49,002 Sonk Mantan Piant 787 01:35:59,180 --> 01:36:01,181 Hello friends! 788 01:36:01,639 --> 01:36:02,432 Watch out! 789 01:36:02,641 --> 01:36:04,224 They are Americans! 790 01:36:04,220 --> 01:36:07,890 Oh no! Please, do not put me in jail. Please! 791 01:36:08,015 --> 01:36:11,976 No, no jail! They need you to clean their toilets. 792 01:37:44,611 --> 01:37:46,446 You take money from a kid?! 793 01:37:47,288 --> 01:37:48,288 You coward! 794 01:37:59,041 --> 01:38:00,585 PoliceTime to clear the park! 795 01:38:01,753 --> 01:38:03,296 Get out, Dagos! 796 01:38:03,421 --> 01:38:05,381 Go, go! 797 01:38:10,636 --> 01:38:11,888 You’re under arrest. 798 01:38:21,106 --> 01:38:22,231 Well, 799 01:38:24,776 --> 01:38:26,111 on behalf of the Mayor, 800 01:38:26,236 --> 01:38:29,196 I promise you that this is the last time New York will ever 801 01:38:29,531 --> 01:38:31,616 see an Italian Festival. 802 01:38:33,201 --> 01:38:37,496 The fines, including those attended upon your arrest, 803 01:38:37,621 --> 01:38:41,835 amount to 3,111 dollars, 804 01:38:41,960 --> 01:38:45,296 which happens to be exactly the amount we collected. 805 01:38:45,713 --> 01:38:46,881 It’s your lucky day. 806 01:39:08,486 --> 01:39:10,155 I need to speak to the Mayor. 807 01:39:10,821 --> 01:39:11,906 Oh do you? 808 01:39:12,741 --> 01:39:14,701 This money belongs to the poor! 809 01:39:17,120 --> 01:39:19,706 I will speak to the Mayor, signore! 810 01:39:20,748 --> 01:39:22,375 Who the hell do you think you are? 811 01:39:24,210 --> 01:39:25,711 I am a woman! 812 01:39:25,961 --> 01:39:27,630 And I am Italian! 813 01:39:28,506 --> 01:39:31,926 And I am done with little men like you! 814 01:39:32,343 --> 01:39:34,471 With hearts the size of a peanut! 815 01:39:34,596 --> 01:39:35,346 Officer Rentschler! 816 01:39:35,471 --> 01:39:37,975 Too blind to understand the truth! 817 01:39:38,308 --> 01:39:40,935 To know that we are all human beings! 818 01:39:41,145 --> 01:39:42,645 We are all the same! 819 01:39:42,896 --> 01:39:44,523 Children of God! 820 01:39:44,690 --> 01:39:47,191 And you dismiss us at your own peril! 821 01:39:47,316 --> 01:39:48,776 Officer, 822 01:39:48,901 --> 01:39:50,236 please escort this guinea 823 01:39:50,361 --> 01:39:51,863 back to Five Points where she belongs. 824 01:39:52,030 --> 01:39:53,573 I can walk myself! 825 01:40:05,668 --> 01:40:07,378 I warned you! 826 01:40:08,671 --> 01:40:11,175 But you were blinded by ambition! 827 01:40:12,091 --> 01:40:13,843 Naked ambition! 828 01:40:15,095 --> 01:40:16,638 You chose to disobey me 829 01:40:16,763 --> 01:40:17,765 and now your actions 830 01:40:17,890 --> 01:40:19,975 have become the problem of the Archdiocese, 831 01:40:20,100 --> 01:40:22,811 and the souls under my care! 832 01:40:26,565 --> 01:40:28,233 You have left me no choice 833 01:40:29,651 --> 01:40:33,821 but to inform you that your institutions 834 01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:37,616 are to be disbanded, 835 01:40:39,285 --> 01:40:41,788 and you and your sisters are to return to Italy. 836 01:40:44,373 --> 01:40:45,833 I assure you 837 01:40:46,626 --> 01:40:47,668 that the Archdiocese 838 01:40:47,795 --> 01:40:49,505 will handle your wards appropriately. 839 01:40:50,213 --> 01:40:52,131 You mean my children. 840 01:40:53,008 --> 01:40:54,885 Your mission is over, Mother. 841 01:40:55,010 --> 01:40:57,261 My mission has barely begun. 842 01:40:57,846 --> 01:40:58,763 Mother Cabrini- 843 01:40:58,888 --> 01:41:01,808 You ask me to destroy my houses 844 01:41:03,018 --> 01:41:05,478 and run back to Italy like a criminal. 845 01:41:05,603 --> 01:41:08,856 You were arrested, were you not? 846 01:41:12,110 --> 01:41:15,571 This problem will be with us in a hundred years. 847 01:41:17,365 --> 01:41:18,908 There’s no point working yourself 848 01:41:19,033 --> 01:41:20,535 to death trying to change it. 849 01:41:20,660 --> 01:41:22,286 Some things never change. 850 01:41:24,665 --> 01:41:29,711 Forgive me if I don’t have the strength to think like you. 851 01:41:34,256 --> 01:41:38,678 Well, despite that, the Italians 852 01:41:40,055 --> 01:41:42,098 have survived without you, 853 01:41:43,100 --> 01:41:45,476 and somehow they will continue to do so. 854 01:41:53,026 --> 01:41:55,236 You are to leave New York and never return. 855 01:41:57,738 --> 01:41:59,533 This is an order of obedience. 856 01:43:13,523 --> 01:43:16,860 It is an order of obedience, and must be obeyed. 857 01:43:17,986 --> 01:43:19,613 Corrigan gave us 30 days, 858 01:43:20,571 --> 01:43:22,073 I intend to use them. 859 01:43:22,698 --> 01:43:26,620 In my absence, Concetta will manage all New York operations. 860 01:43:29,748 --> 01:43:31,708 Until we hear otherwise, 861 01:43:31,833 --> 01:43:33,876 we will continue the work we’ve begun. 862 01:43:35,336 --> 01:43:38,881 As Mother says, we have plenty of time to rest in Heaven. 863 01:43:39,006 --> 01:43:41,258 So, let’s get back to work. 864 01:44:12,130 --> 01:44:16,217 Do you t think the Archbishop will Iet me stay here without you? 865 01:44:18,178 --> 01:44:22,890 A hooker from Five Points? 866 01:44:26,353 --> 01:44:29,021 I'm going to Rome to fight. Sooc 867 01:44:29,982 --> 01:44:33,109 ...with every last ounce of my strength. 868 01:44:40,568 --> 01:44:42,653 We are survivors... 869 01:44:45,448 --> 01:44:46,533 are we not? 870 01:44:55,541 --> 01:44:56,585 We are. 871 01:45:08,971 --> 01:45:11,056 Would you take me with you? 872 01:45:48,143 --> 01:45:50,519 You fascinate me, Cabrini. 873 01:45:51,480 --> 01:45:56,692 I can't tell where your faith ends... 874 01:45:57,694 --> 01:46:00,446 100 and your ambition begins. 875 01:46:03,408 --> 01:46:05,785 I must agree with the Archbishop. 876 01:46:06,828 --> 01:46:11,123 This project is overly a ambitious, 877 01:46:13,669 --> 01:46:16,087 perhaps s unrealistic. 878 01:46:20,384 --> 01:46:23,010 Only after little David killed giant. t Goliath. 879 01:46:23,261 --> 01:46:25,805 did he become king. 880 01:46:28,057 --> 01:46:29,433 You intend to be a king? 881 01:46:30,268 --> 01:46:32,937 I intend to build an empire. Your I Holiness. 882 01:46:33,647 --> 01:46:36,190 An empire of hope. 883 01:46:41,738 --> 01:46:46,283 If you can prove. e that your. plan has any real chance... 884 01:46:46,451 --> 01:46:47,826 any at all. 885 01:46:49,204 --> 01:46:52,540 I could consider your request. 886 01:46:52,665 --> 01:46:55,584 In the meantime, I can not and will not... 887 01:46:56,545 --> 01:46:59,005 ...override the Archbishop 888 01:47:28,201 --> 01:47:29,994 Senator... 889 01:47:30,120 --> 01:47:31,953 Sorry for the wait, Mother... 890 01:47:32,456 --> 01:47:34,540 We are late for a dinner. 891 01:47:35,082 --> 01:47:37,460 If you don't mind walking with us.. 892 01:47:38,837 --> 01:47:41,547 The committee has reviewed your application, 893 01:47:41,714 --> 01:47:44,467 but has regretfully declined your loan.. 894 01:47:44,634 --> 01:47:47,261 Senator, the project works perfectly, we can host -- 895 01:47:47,428 --> 01:47:48,095 Good evening! 896 01:47:48,220 --> 01:47:49,472 So many children -- 897 01:47:49,639 --> 01:47:51,140 Mother Cabrini 898 01:47:51,308 --> 01:47:54,477 the Senate does not even make I oans of that size. 899 01:47:54,603 --> 01:47:56,937 We do however wish you the best. 900 01:47:57,063 --> 01:47:59,774 The Senate has made its decision, my dear. 901 01:47:59,900 --> 01:48:01,567 There's nothing else you can do - 902 01:48:01,693 --> 01:48:02,943 But please, just take a look... 903 01:48:03,070 --> 01:48:04,694 Mother Cabrini! 904 01:48:05,238 --> 01:48:06,447 Enough! 905 01:48:07,074 --> 01:48:09,867 You've wandered into rooms.. 906 01:48:10,535 --> 01:48:13,162 where you simply don't belong. 907 01:48:58,333 --> 01:49:00,167 Mother! 908 01:49:01,586 --> 01:49:03,170 Are you well? 909 01:49:03,296 --> 01:49:06,465 We're making. dinner, come. and eat something. 910 01:49:07,008 --> 01:49:09,343 need to rest 911 01:50:51,655 --> 01:50:54,823 The first time I saw you... 912 01:50:55,325 --> 01:50:56,867 you were marching t through 913 01:50:57,035 --> 01:50:58,994 the most dangerous alley in New York 914 01:51:00,914 --> 01:51:03,916 in your long black cape. 915 01:51:07,671 --> 01:51:10,506 You wore it like a suit of armor. 916 01:51:12,633 --> 01:51:16,595 Like nothing on Earth could stop you. 917 01:51:22,310 --> 01:51:24,979 I don't know what you're 918 01:51:25,689 --> 01:51:28,774 I don't know anything about the Pope or the Senate.. 919 01:51:30,944 --> 01:51:34,405 But I know you're not supposed to stop. 920 01:51:35,407 --> 01:51:39,618 You said you'd fight with. every I ast ounce of your strength. 921 01:51:44,040 --> 01:51:47,293 You must put your armor on. 922 01:54:13,898 --> 01:54:14,982 Gentlemen! 923 01:54:16,776 --> 01:54:18,569 Open your-hearts 924 01:54:19,111 --> 01:54:20,362 to the refugee... 925 01:54:20,821 --> 01:54:24,199 to the Italian immigrant who traveled across the ocean!. 926 01:54:24,909 --> 01:54:25,825 In America, 927 01:54:26,369 --> 01:54:28,162 in the great city of New York, 928 01:54:29,122 --> 01:54:31,373 the life of an Italian immigrant -- 929 01:54:31,499 --> 01:54:33,041 Officer! Escort her out now. 930 01:54:33,209 --> 01:54:34,042 Stop, my dear! 931 01:54:34,252 --> 01:54:35,169 Not one step further! 932 01:54:35,336 --> 01:54:37,796 Officer, you are to remove this woman. 933 01:54:39,382 --> 01:54:41,467 You did not permit me to speak earlier, 934 01:54:41,718 --> 01:54:42,925 Senator B odio. 935 01:54:43,635 --> 01:54:45,179 So I shall speak here, 936 01:54:45,805 --> 01:54:46,930 now! 937 01:54:47,098 --> 01:54:48,765 Throw her out! 938 01:54:49,559 --> 01:54:50,767 Because I speak for the immigrant -- 939 01:54:50,976 --> 01:54:51,935 Only men are allowed to speak here! 940 01:54:52,061 --> 01:54:53,937 I speak for your countrymen.. 941 01:54:54,105 --> 01:54:56,398 who wager everything on America. 942 01:54:57,108 --> 01:54:59,275 to discover what? 943 01:55:01,528 --> 01:55:04,155 'Even rats have it better! 944 01:55:04,823 --> 01:55:06,366 This is an outrage! 945 01:55:09,370 --> 01:55:11,705 speak for those little girls 946 01:55:12,040 --> 01:55:14,040 abandoned to the streets. 947 01:55:15,210 --> 01:55:19,171 Who somehow survive... only to become prostitutes. 948 01:55:21,007 --> 01:55:22,925 speak for families, 949 01:55:23,717 --> 01:55:25,385 stacked in tenements. 950 01:55:25,845 --> 01:55:27,429 For fathers, 951 01:55:27,972 --> 01:55:30,474 who die alone in gutters.. 952 01:55:31,726 --> 01:55:33,643 like dogs. 953 01:55:35,939 --> 01:55:39,525 In one voice they tell you.. 954 01:55:40,401 --> 01:55:42,652 they don't want your pity. 955 01:55:45,448 --> 01:55:47,282 For they are Italian. 956 01:55:48,284 --> 01:55:50,076 They are proud. 957 01:55:51,704 --> 01:55:52,788 But they also tell you -- 958 01:55:52,956 --> 01:55:54,414 Enough! This is no place for a woman! 959 01:55:54,541 --> 01:56:00,420 --one small g gesture of love.. 960 01:56:01,965 --> 01:56:04,466 can change everything. 961 01:56:05,218 --> 01:56:06,635 A word of hope. 962 01:56:06,761 --> 01:56:08,053 A touch. 963 01:56:09,264 --> 01:56:13,141 The medicine of a loving hand. 964 01:56:15,937 --> 01:56:18,689 These are the things that change the world. 965 01:56:21,317 --> 01:56:23,819 And in one voice they ask the great Senator B odio, 966 01:56:23,987 --> 01:56:25,903 ...to hear their case. 967 01:56:27,740 --> 01:56:29,449 For at the hour of our death 968 01:56:29,908 --> 01:56:32,244 we will all be asked one question. 969 01:56:33,538 --> 01:56:35,163 What did we do for the poor? 970 01:56:35,498 --> 01:56:36,623 The sick? 971 01:56:36,874 --> 01:56:38,083 The homeless? 972 01:56:38,543 --> 01:56:41,920 For those stripped of dignity? 973 01:56:43,381 --> 01:56:45,591 What did we do? 974 01:56:50,888 --> 01:56:57,644 Such a loan. would be risky enough if made to a man. 975 01:56:58,146 --> 01:57:01,690 Isn't a building worth the same no matter who owns it?. 976 01:57:02,442 --> 01:57:03,942 If I fail 977 01:57:04,068 --> 01:57:07,279 I offer as collateral a prime piece of Manhattan real estate. 978 01:57:07,488 --> 01:57:09,364 all my holdings in Lombardy, 979 01:57:10,158 --> 01:57:12,117 and my property on the Hudson. 980 01:57:13,745 --> 01:57:15,996 In other words, gentlemen. 981 01:57:16,247 --> 01:57:19,291 if I fail, everything I have is yours. 982 01:57:21,002 --> 01:57:24,588 I am overriding his order but.. 983 01:57:27,675 --> 01:57:29,968 it may cost you everything. 984 01:57:41,431 --> 01:57:43,016 We are bold, 985 01:57:43,976 --> 01:57:45,686 or we die. 986 01:57:47,362 --> 01:57:50,656 That is how I learned to live in America.. 987 01:57:51,532 --> 01:57:53,867 Thank you, Your Holiness. 988 01:58:29,938 --> 01:58:31,273 Mother Cabrini! 989 01:58:43,243 --> 01:58:44,661 Your Grace. 990 01:58:45,036 --> 01:58:47,206 What an honor that you came to greet us. 991 01:58:48,665 --> 01:58:49,875 May I? 992 01:58:50,250 --> 01:58:52,628 No, thank you. I can manage. 993 01:58:53,836 --> 01:58:54,838 Sister. 994 01:58:59,218 --> 01:59:00,761 When I was a boy, 995 01:59:01,678 --> 01:59:03,180 -I would sit in a parlor 996 01:59:04,015 --> 01:59:06,058 -with my father and his cronies. 997 01:59:07,393 --> 01:59:10,688 -All of them fresh from Ireland, all of them illiterate. 998 01:59:13,690 --> 01:59:14,775 And 999 01:59:16,193 --> 01:59:18,070 when the whiskey hit my father, 1000 01:59:18,611 --> 01:59:19,946 he would pin me 1001 01:59:20,321 --> 01:59:22,156 with his blue eyes and say, 1002 01:59:23,325 --> 01:59:26,120 “Listen to me, Mikey boy, 1003 01:59:27,955 --> 01:59:29,456 our generation 1004 01:59:29,581 --> 01:59:33,418 is digging the whole bloody tunnel from old Croton Dam. 1005 01:59:33,543 --> 01:59:36,796 So you lads can drink cool water from a tap. 1006 01:59:38,798 --> 01:59:40,550 And don’t you forget it.” 1007 01:59:44,180 --> 01:59:46,140 Well, I never did forget. 1008 01:59:50,936 --> 01:59:53,230 Please don’t think I don’t understand. 1009 01:59:55,900 --> 01:59:58,526 Or that I don’t on some level 1010 02:00:00,528 --> 02:00:02,238 admire what you’re doing. 1011 02:00:05,910 --> 02:00:07,661 But please know, Mother, 1012 02:00:08,370 --> 02:00:11,373 that you have swatted the hornet’s nest. 1013 02:00:12,875 --> 02:00:14,793 And neither I nor the Pope 1014 02:00:15,293 --> 02:00:17,045 can protect you from what may come. 1015 02:00:26,263 --> 02:00:28,181 Good morning, Mr. Merton. 1016 02:00:34,688 --> 02:00:36,190 Francesca Cabrini. 1017 02:00:41,445 --> 02:00:43,071 Shall we begin? 1018 02:00:44,156 --> 02:00:47,493 Of course half of the workers must be Italian. 1019 02:00:47,618 --> 02:00:50,036 Italian? No, no, no. Sorry, sister. 1020 02:00:50,161 --> 02:00:52,748 We built Rome, I am sure we can build a hospital. 1021 02:00:52,873 --> 02:00:53,623 I’m afraid- 1022 02:00:53,748 --> 02:00:55,125 It is not negotiable. 1023 02:00:55,250 --> 02:00:57,670 And all workers -- including Italians -- 1024 02:00:57,795 --> 02:00:59,630 must get the same pay. 1025 02:01:01,423 --> 02:01:04,051 We’ll see what Dr. Murphy has to say about that. 1026 02:01:04,176 --> 02:01:06,636 You’ll have to do as I say, Mr. Merton. 1027 02:01:09,681 --> 02:01:12,308 And from now on, the sisters and I sleep here. 1028 02:01:38,585 --> 02:01:41,921 No, no Salvitore... 1029 02:04:56,783 --> 02:04:59,620 I have a favor to ask, Mr. Calloway. 1030 02:05:11,423 --> 02:05:13,008 I will see the Mayor. 1031 02:05:14,760 --> 02:05:15,885 Now, Mr. Jenkins. 1032 02:05:16,011 --> 02:05:17,345 You will never see the Mayor. 1033 02:05:19,013 --> 02:05:21,683 Mr. Calloway wants a front page story. 1034 02:05:21,808 --> 02:05:24,060 And Mother is the only one holding it back. 1035 02:05:25,020 --> 02:05:26,813 So I’d do as she says. 1036 02:05:37,991 --> 02:05:39,075 Mr. Mayor. 1037 02:05:41,286 --> 02:05:42,705 Mother Cabrini. 1038 02:05:43,496 --> 02:05:44,831 Your Honor. 1039 02:05:46,583 --> 02:05:48,168 Where’s Calloway? 1040 02:05:49,168 --> 02:05:52,588 I’d like to speak to the Mayor alone, Mr. Jenkins. 1041 02:06:10,898 --> 02:06:12,651 - Do you know why I am here, Mr. Mayor? 1042 02:06:12,776 --> 02:06:14,361 Not in the least. 1043 02:06:14,861 --> 02:06:17,488 Are you aware of the fire at my construction site? 1044 02:06:17,990 --> 02:06:20,116 If I was kept abreast of every fire in this-- 1045 02:06:20,241 --> 02:06:21,618 It was arson. 1046 02:06:21,743 --> 02:06:23,953 The Detective Unit is on the third floor. 1047 02:06:24,078 --> 02:06:25,663 Is there anything else I can help you with? 1048 02:06:25,788 --> 02:06:27,750 Lives were almost lost... 1049 02:06:27,875 --> 02:06:29,000 And I am willing to believe 1050 02:06:29,125 --> 02:06:30,543 that whoever did this 1051 02:06:30,710 --> 02:06:32,336 thought the place was empty. 1052 02:06:34,506 --> 02:06:35,881 Careful, Mother. 1053 02:06:42,596 --> 02:06:45,183 I am not here to accuse. 1054 02:06:46,476 --> 02:06:49,521 Mr. Calloway, however, has his own ideas. 1055 02:06:51,190 --> 02:06:54,401 I believe I am being threatened by a nun. 1056 02:06:54,985 --> 02:06:56,236 If Mr. Calloway- 1057 02:06:56,361 --> 02:06:58,113 Mr. Calloway is a lying son of a bitch! 1058 02:06:58,238 --> 02:06:59,823 Mr. Calloway is a friend. 1059 02:07:00,198 --> 02:07:02,450 Who would be delighted to hear that you have put your support 1060 02:07:02,658 --> 02:07:03,910 behind my hospital 1061 02:07:04,035 --> 02:07:05,036 and the good work of- 1062 02:07:05,161 --> 02:07:07,413 Oh, no, no, no! 1063 02:07:07,538 --> 02:07:10,041 If you think you’re gonna march in here and tell me- 1064 02:07:10,166 --> 02:07:11,376 I want the best hospital! 1065 02:07:11,960 --> 02:07:13,211 For your people 1066 02:07:13,795 --> 02:07:14,880 and for mine! 1067 02:07:15,005 --> 02:07:15,880 Oh, what rot! 1068 02:07:16,005 --> 02:07:19,468 You may think we are lazy, dirty animals, 1069 02:07:20,468 --> 02:07:23,721 but someday, sooner than you think, 1070 02:07:24,431 --> 02:07:26,600 there will be an Italian in this office! 1071 02:07:26,725 --> 02:07:28,851 -And he will not be cleaning it! 1072 02:07:30,145 --> 02:07:31,646 -He will be running New York. 1073 02:07:33,481 --> 02:07:37,526 Because most of these ‘Dagos’ 1074 02:07:38,611 --> 02:07:40,280 are already Americans! 1075 02:07:51,875 --> 02:07:54,420 You have an election coming up, do you not? 1076 02:07:58,506 --> 02:08:00,300 - Support my work now, 1077 02:08:00,716 --> 02:08:02,676 and you will have their loyalty. 1078 02:08:04,011 --> 02:08:05,263 That I promise. 1079 02:08:06,848 --> 02:08:09,976 And if I cannot have your support, 1080 02:08:10,685 --> 02:08:13,146 I will settle for your protection. 1081 02:08:16,650 --> 02:08:19,570 Mr. Calloway will be very happy to hear it, 1082 02:08:20,320 --> 02:08:22,613 as will the voters of Five Points. 1083 02:08:33,500 --> 02:08:35,293 And I thought you were new at this. 1084 02:08:58,525 --> 02:08:59,610 Yes, please. 1085 02:09:02,320 --> 02:09:04,781 Now, I need to know that this is the end of all the fires, 1086 02:09:04,906 --> 02:09:06,658 of any kind. 1087 02:09:08,035 --> 02:09:10,203 And I am willing to take your word for it, 1088 02:09:10,870 --> 02:09:12,496 because you are a good man, 1089 02:09:13,748 --> 02:09:15,333 and good men don’t lie to nuns. 1090 02:09:22,506 --> 02:09:24,425 It’s a shame that you’re a woman, Mother. 1091 02:09:25,926 --> 02:09:28,096 You would have made an excellent man. 1092 02:09:30,515 --> 02:09:31,600 Oh no, Mr. Mayor. 1093 02:09:40,816 --> 02:09:42,986 Men could never do what we do. 1094 02:10:16,561 --> 02:10:20,065 “An Empire of Hope,” by Theodore Calloway. 1095 02:10:22,400 --> 02:10:26,655 My dear friend, Frances Xavier Cabrini, 1096 02:10:26,780 --> 02:10:29,950 arrived in New York with nothing but a small suitcase 1097 02:10:30,075 --> 02:10:31,493 and a few sisters -- 1098 02:10:31,868 --> 02:10:35,663 and went on to become one of the great entrepreneurs of her time. 1099 02:10:38,375 --> 02:10:39,710 Her first hospital -- 1100 02:10:39,835 --> 02:10:42,253 built amid the smoke of controversy -- 1101 02:10:42,378 --> 02:10:45,506 was soon considered one of the finest in all New York, 1102 02:10:46,173 --> 02:10:48,801 and was a source of pride and healing 1103 02:10:48,926 --> 02:10:51,346 and hope for immigrants of all nations. 1104 02:10:53,765 --> 02:10:56,518 Cabrini and her sisters went on to found hundreds 1105 02:10:56,643 --> 02:10:59,395 of hospitals, orphanages, schools, 1106 02:10:59,520 --> 02:11:02,356 and aid centers all around the world... 1107 02:11:03,358 --> 02:11:04,901 on every continent... 1108 02:11:06,695 --> 02:11:10,115 including institutions deep in China. 1109 02:11:13,243 --> 02:11:15,286 It was the largest charitable empire 1110 02:11:15,411 --> 02:11:17,163 the world had ever known -- 1111 02:11:18,831 --> 02:11:20,333 an accomplishment equal to that 1112 02:11:20,458 --> 02:11:23,086 of any Rockefeller or Vanderbilt. 1113 02:11:24,545 --> 02:11:28,133 And all of her institutions were run by women. 1114 02:11:33,596 --> 02:11:35,890 Cabrini continued to defy death 1115 02:11:36,140 --> 02:11:38,226 until the age of 67. 1116 02:11:39,268 --> 02:11:41,480 She was buried at her grand orphanage 1117 02:11:41,688 --> 02:11:43,356 high above the Hudson, 1118 02:11:43,565 --> 02:11:45,233 just as she predicted. 1119 02:11:47,986 --> 02:11:49,320 She was canonized 1120 02:11:49,445 --> 02:11:51,948 at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. 1121 02:11:53,450 --> 02:11:54,450 The great plaza -- 1122 02:11:54,575 --> 02:11:56,411 across which she had walked alone 1123 02:11:56,536 --> 02:11:58,080 so many years before - 1124 02:11:58,538 --> 02:12:00,415 was packed to bursting. 1125 02:12:03,418 --> 02:12:05,711 Just as Cabrini had wrapped her arms 1126 02:12:05,836 --> 02:12:08,340 around the forgotten immigrant, 1127 02:12:08,465 --> 02:12:11,468 America now embraced her as one of its own. 1128 02:12:12,968 --> 02:12:14,888 A celebration was held in her honor at 1129 02:12:15,013 --> 02:12:16,931 Chicago’s Soldier Field, 1130 02:12:17,265 --> 02:12:19,225 while hundreds of thousands more 1131 02:12:19,350 --> 02:12:22,353 listened on radios all across the country. 1132 02:12:24,605 --> 02:12:27,025 Cabrini was the first American saint, 1133 02:12:28,318 --> 02:12:31,070 and is the patron saint of all immigrants. 1134 02:12:32,780 --> 02:12:36,410 And even now she begs us to ask – 1135 02:12:37,285 --> 02:12:39,578 what kind of world do we want? 1136 02:12:41,163 --> 02:12:44,166 And what will we do to achieve it?