The Left Hand of God

366 00:30:44,124 --> 00:30:46,583 Where's her husband? 367 00:30:46,621 --> 00:30:49,704 He has gone to the Yellow House, Father. 368 00:30:49,742 --> 00:30:52,303 Jan Teng saw the baby born dead. 369 00:30:52,342 --> 00:30:55,891 He will stay in the Yellow House and drink now to forget his own pain. 370 00:30:57,889 --> 00:31:00,042 He should be here. 371 00:31:00,079 --> 00:31:03,082 Show me the way, Dan. - It's not the place for Shen Fu to go. 372 00:31:03,121 --> 00:31:05,535 Show me the house. - It's a bad place, Father. 373 00:31:17,611 --> 00:31:19,845 All right, Dan, 374 00:31:19,883 --> 00:31:21,487 you go back to the village. 375 00:31:40,186 --> 00:31:41,585 Chun Tien... 376 00:31:47,853 --> 00:31:49,273 Pao Chu is dead. 377 00:32:04,761 --> 00:32:06,838 I loved her, Shen Fu. 378 00:32:08,393 --> 00:32:11,225 I think she's with someone who loves her as much as you did. 379 00:32:12,447 --> 00:32:16,440 I'm sure that where she is now Pao Chu is happy. 380 00:32:22,006 --> 00:32:24,637 You believe that, Father? 381 00:32:26,856 --> 00:32:31,246 Yes, I believe it. Come on. 382 00:32:57,701 --> 00:33:00,177 Let's go, Father. There's nothing more either of us can do here. 383 00:33:15,038 --> 00:33:17,150 Those blasted midwives. 384 00:33:17,188 --> 00:33:20,123 If they'd sent for me in time, that kid wouldn't have been butchered. 385 00:33:20,161 --> 00:33:23,183 Stupid, ignorant old women! 386 00:33:23,222 --> 00:33:25,373 This is the most backward village in the whole lot. 387 00:33:25,411 --> 00:33:29,172 The man who said ignorance is bliss should have been boiled in oil. 388 00:33:29,212 --> 00:33:33,683 Oh, the boy told me you went up the hill to the Yellow House. How'd you make out? 389 00:33:33,723 --> 00:33:37,044 You can't win all the time. - You let it go at that? 390 00:33:37,084 --> 00:33:40,201 Don't tell me the Church gives up on them, Father. Medicine doesn't give up. 391 00:33:40,239 --> 00:33:42,221 Moves right in wherever it finds the thing it fights. 392 00:33:42,259 --> 00:33:46,100 When medicine reaches a point where it never has to walk hopelessly away 393 00:33:46,139 --> 00:33:49,945 from a case, then you can criticise the Church because it's left some 394 00:33:49,986 --> 00:33:52,520 spiritual illness uncured. 395 00:34:02,745 --> 00:34:04,466 I wish O'Shea would drink. 396 00:34:04,503 --> 00:34:06,558 He's too tense. 397 00:34:06,595 --> 00:34:10,230 This concern for Father O'Shea is new, isn't it? 398 00:34:10,269 --> 00:34:13,869 I suppose he does his job as well as he can. 399 00:34:13,910 --> 00:34:17,089 In China, you can't ask for more. 400 00:34:17,127 --> 00:34:20,051 But you were so certain there was something odd about him. 401 00:34:20,090 --> 00:34:22,461 I could have been wrong. 402 00:34:22,499 --> 00:34:24,667 I'm not so sure. 403 00:34:24,705 --> 00:34:28,983 There seems to be so much in him that wasn't intended to be a priest. 404 00:34:29,023 --> 00:34:32,692 That magnetism again? 405 00:34:32,732 --> 00:34:34,151 Yes. 406 00:34:34,187 --> 00:34:36,348 Women can't understand celibacy. 407 00:34:36,387 --> 00:34:38,352 Priests are men. 408 00:34:38,389 --> 00:34:40,707 That's just female vanity. 409 00:34:40,745 --> 00:34:43,415 The priesthood is also a conditioning, a discipline. 410 00:34:43,453 --> 00:34:48,436 O'Shea hasn't got anything that's more important to him than being a priest. 411 00:34:48,478 --> 00:34:50,722 What I'm worried about is his health. 412 00:34:50,726 --> 00:34:52,707 All that tension. 413 00:34:52,744 --> 00:34:53,986 It killed Father Coleman. 414 00:34:54,023 --> 00:34:56,617 Light me a cigarette, will you, dear? 415 00:34:57,057 --> 00:34:59,901 There's something else I wish you'd worry about. 416 00:34:59,940 --> 00:35:01,760 What's that? 417 00:35:01,798 --> 00:35:03,138 I think Anne ought to go home. 418 00:35:03,174 --> 00:35:04,437 Scotty? What's wrong with her? 419 00:35:04,474 --> 00:35:07,614 She's been too long in China. She's been too long at this mission. 420 00:35:07,652 --> 00:35:09,860 She looks all right to me. 421 00:35:09,898 --> 00:35:11,578 Does she? 422 00:35:11,616 --> 00:35:14,088 How nice and blind you are. 423 00:35:14,126 --> 00:35:16,563 She's all churned up inside. 424 00:35:16,601 --> 00:35:18,255 What about? 425 00:35:18,292 --> 00:35:19,876 Father O'Shea. 426 00:35:19,913 --> 00:35:22,199 You don't know what you're talking about. 427 00:35:22,237 --> 00:35:23,597 Don't I? 428 00:35:26,130 --> 00:35:29,520 Say, that won't do. You'd better speak to her. 429 00:35:29,559 --> 00:35:30,953 I've tried. 430 00:35:30,951 --> 00:35:33,522 And? - It's not her fault. 431 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,060 Females are simple biological structures. 432 00:35:36,099 --> 00:35:39,092 Their bodies pay very little attention to their minds. 433 00:35:39,130 --> 00:35:44,944 I told you, there's so much in O'Shea that isn't or wasn't meant 434 00:35:44,986 --> 00:35:46,963 to be priest. 435 00:35:47,001 --> 00:35:52,735 He