Cardinal Bem walks among the poor, drunk, and homeless people under the bridge, experiencing a vision of hell. He thinks about how things are better than they were before the communists, and wonders if they would be even better if the West would help them, although he knows the West will not. He sleeps with newspapers stuffed into his clothes.
Cardinal Bem has hit rock bottom. He has no money, no one to trust, and.....
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