Father William:
"I was trying to explain to you how the body of the church, which for centuries was also the body of all society, the people of God, has become too rich, and wide, and it carries along the dross of all the countries it has passed through, and it has lost its own purity."

Adso:
"I understand less and less."

Father William:
"So do I .. "

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose