"Vittoria Vetra: When did you hear your call? Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Before I was born. I'm sorry, that always seems like a strange question. What I mean is that I've always known I would serve God. From the moment I could first think. It wasn't until I was a young man, though, in the military, that I truly understood my purpose. Vittoria Vetra: You were in the military? Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Two years. I refused to fire a weapon, so they made me fly instead. Medevac helicopters. In fact, I still fly from time to time. Vittoria Vetra: Did you ever fly the Pope? Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Heavens no. We left that precious cargo to the professionals. His Holiness let me take the helicopter to our retreat in Gandolfo sometimes. Ms. Vetra, thank you for your help here today. I am very sorry about your father. Truly. Vittoria Vetra: Thank you. Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: I never knew my father. He died before I was born. I lost my mother when I was ten. Vittoria Vetra: You were orphaned? Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: I survived an accident. An accident that took my mother. Vittoria Vetra: Who took care of you? Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: God. He quite literally sent me another father. A bishop from Palermo appeared at my hospital bed and took me in. At the time I was not surprised. I had sensed God's watchful hand over me even as a boy. The bishop's appearance simply confirmed what I had already suspected, that God had somehow chosen me to serve him. Vittoria Vetra: You believed God chose you? Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: I did. And I do. I worked under the bishop's tutelage for many years. He eventually became a cardinal. Still, he never forgot me. He is the father I remember." Vittoria Vetra: What became of him? The cardinal who took you in? Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: He left the College of Cardinals for another position. And then, I'm sorry to say, he passed on. Vittoria Vetra: Le mie condoglianze. Recently?" Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Exactly fifteen days ago. We are going to see him right now."