Dirk Bogarde credited as playing...
Arturo Carrera
- Bishop: Good day, Arturo. I do not see how we can keep our eyes closed to the situation any longer, Father. There comes a time when we must take a stand. Read this. Read it out loud. I want to hear how it sounds.
- Arturo Carrera: "Entrance to this House of God is forbidden to immodestly dressed women who's frocks do not cover their elbows and their knees."
- Arturo Carrera: They haven't lost their faith in God. They've lost it in us - the Church. We failed them! They look to us for protection against cruelty and injustice and this is the kind of answer we give them? A preposterous reminder that there are certain parts of a woman's body that Bishops disapprove of.
- Bishop: For every failure, there is a martyred priest whose blood is the very seed of the Church.
- Arturo Carrera: How do I know they were martyrs?
- Bishop: Arturo, please.
- Arturo Carrera: Why weren't they simply just fools?
- Bishop: I have been very patient with you, Father.
- Arturo Carrera: How do I know they didn't die for a myth? Or, for a ghost?
- Canon Rota: You never believed in it anyway, did you?
- Arturo Carrera: No.
- Canon Rota: Neither did I. I was either too stupid or not stupid enough. I don't know which.
- Arturo Carrera: A cause isn't necessarily true because a man dies for it. His dying merely proves that he believed in it. Not that he wasn't a fool to do so!
- Soledad: Don't you like me?
- Arturo Carrera: Yes, very much.
- Soledad: Is it because I'm a cabaret girl?
- Arturo Carrera: I'll come back.
- Soledad: No you won't.
- Arturo Carrera: I promise you. I promise you, I will.
- Soledad: No you won't.