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“	Our church is at war. We are under attack from an old enemy. The Illuminati. They have struck us from within and threatening us all with destruction from their new god Science.	„
	~ Camerlengo Patrick McKenna

Camerlengo Patrick McKenna, simply known as Patrick McKenna, is the main antagonist of the 2009 film Angels and Demons. He was a Camerlengo who planned to alert the world to the Church and brainwash everybody into following the Church again because he thought everyone had become too devoted to science. He kidnapped and killed four cardinals from the Vatican in order to make his point.

He was portrayed by Ewan McGregor, who also played Mark Renton in the Trainspotting films and Black Mask in Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).

Biography

McKenna is the Camerlengo of Vatican City and servant of the Holy Roman Church. He assumes temporary control of the Vatican while a new Pope is being elected, following the death of Pope Pius XVI, but four of the "preferiti" (favourite cardinals to be elected Pope) are kidnapped by the Illuminati. They threaten to kill one cardinal every hour and destroy Vatican City using a vial of antimatter that had previously gone missing from a nuclear research facility, which would act as a bomb. In reality, it is McKenna, not the Illuminati, who is behind the scheme, having wanted to claim the Pope's position for himself and gather the church's greatest followers to his side, as well as to deter people away from science. In despair, the Vatican summons a symbologist from Harvard University named Robert Langdon to help them rescue the preferiti and recover the vial.

When the vial is eventually located in St. Peter's Tomb beneath the church, McKenna (who is a former military pilot) takes the vial in a helicopter and flies above the Vatican before escaping in a parachute. The vial explodes in midair, and McKenna is deemed a hero and a savior by the people. As McKenna is about to be elected Pope, Langdon discovers on a security video that McKenna was actually involved in the attack and the video is shown to the cardinals.

The Cardinals have McKenna brought to the Sistine Chapel where he realizes that he has been exposed. McKenna leaves the chapel and runs into the Basilica. Entering the Confessio, he grabs one of the bronze lamps and extinguishes the lamp's flame. Pouring the contents of the lamp over himself, McKenna then commits suicide through self-immolation.

Following McKenna's death, the church keeps the details of his crimes secret, instead announcing that McKenna had died due to injuries sustained through saving the Vatican from the antimatter.

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 {{Villain Infobox
-|image = Camerlengo_Patrick_McKenna.png
+|image = Camerlengo Patrick McKenna.png
+|size = 200
-|fullname = Carlo Ventresca (book)<br>
-Patrick McKenna (movie)
+|fullname = Patrick McKenna <small>(movie)</small>
 |alias = The Camerlengo
-|origin = ''Angels & Demons''
+|origin = ''Angels & Demons'' <small>(2009)</small>
 |occupation = Camerlengo of Vatican City
-|skills = Calm and aloof; convincing liar
+|skills = Deception
-|hobby = Spreading the word of God
+|hobby = Spreading the word of God.
+|goals = Kill the Pope <small>(succeeded)</small>.<br>
-|goals = Kill the Pope (succeeded), have the Hassassin kill four cardinals (succeeded in the book; succeeded in killing three in the movie), Make the world follow the Church again, Blow up the Vatican (thwarted by himself), Deceive the Vatican and Christendom
+Have the Hassassin kill four cardinals <small>(succeeded in killing three in the movie)</small>.<br>
-|crimes = Murder
+Make the world follow the Church again <small>(failed)</small>.<br>
-|type of villain = Dark Priest
+Blow up the Vatican <small>(thwarted by himself)</small>.<br>
-|size = 300px
+Deceive the Vatican and Christendom <small>(failed)</small>.
-}}{{Quote|What is the greater sin? Killing one's enemy? Or standing idle while your true love is strangled?|Carlo Ventresca explains his acts 	}}{{Quote|Our church is at war. We are under attack from an old enemy. The Illuminati. They have struck us from within and threatening us all with destruction from their new god Science.| Camerlengo Patrick McKenna}}
+|crimes = Murder<br>
-'''Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca''' was the Camerlengo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City Vatican City] and the main antagonist of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown Dan Brown's] 2000 novel ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_and_Demons Angels and Demons].''
+Conspiracy<br>
+Fraud<br>
+Attempted arson
+|type of villain = Egotistical Priest}} {{Quote|Our church is at war. We are under attack from an old enemy. The Illuminati. They have struck us from within and threatening us all with destruction from their new god Science.|Camerlengo Patrick McKenna}}
-He was a Camerlengo who planned to alert the world to the Church and brainwash everybody into following the Church again because he thought everyone had become too devoted to science. He kidnapped and killed four cardinals from the Vatican in order to make his point.
+'''Camerlengo Patrick McKenna''', simply known as '''Patrick McKenna''', is the main antagonist of the 2009 film ''Angels and Demons''. He was a Camerlengo who planned to alert the world to the Church and brainwash everybody into following the Church again because he thought everyone had become too devoted to science. He kidnapped and killed four cardinals from the Vatican in order to make his point.
+He was portrayed by {{w|Ewan McGregor}}, who also played [[Mark Renton]] in the ''Trainspotting'' films and [[Black Mask (DC Extended Universe)|Black Mask]] in ''Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)''.
-In the 2009 film of the same name, the character's name is changed to [https://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Patrick_McKenna Patrick McKenna]-where he's portrayed by Ewan McGregor in the film, who was best known for Obi-Wan Kenobi in the ''Star Wars prequel trilogy''.
-== Biography ==
+==Biography==
-===Book===
-Carlo was orphaned at a young age when terrorists dropped a bomb on his town's church. His mother was killed in the explosion. Carlo Ventresca never knew his biological father, so he believed he was orphan, or a miracle birth, like Jesus. His mother was responsible for inciting fanaticism into him, as she kept saying "God has great plans for you." Carlo survived the terrorist attack on the church, and he was met in hospital by the man who was in actuality his biological father, yet Carlo did not know this at the time. The man, a cardinal, adopted Carlo Ventresca and later the man became Pope. Carlo then rose to become the Pope's camerlengo.
-Carlo Ventresca was disgusted at the Pope's admiration of science. He didn't understand why a holy man and a man of faith could love technology and show gratitude for scientists such as those at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN CERN]. When the Pope went to CERN to see some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/antimatter newly discovered antimatter particles], the Pope was amazed and proclaimed antimatter to be proof of God, thus confirming [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_nihlo Genesis]. Upon return, the Pope told the camerlengo of his discovery and he expected the camerlengo to rejoice, but Carlo Ventresca was sickened by the Church becoming devoted to science. Then, the Pope told Carlo a shocking secret: Carlo Ventresca was the Pope's son, yet Carlo, in rage, did not hear this: he only heard that the Pope had conceived, thus seemingly breaking holy vows. Carlo did not know that this was, in fact, an artificial conception, because the Pope had fallen in love with Carlo's mother and they had learned of artificial conception which meant sex was obsolete. And thus no holy vows were broken. But all Carlo heard was of the Pope's "conception" and his seemingly broken vows.
-Carlo Ventresca went mad and called out to God in the Vatican's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necropolis Necropolis], calling for God to pass judgement on all the sinners in the world. God seemingly answered, asking Carlo to die for Him and humanity, just like God's son. Carlo believed he heard God give him orders, which were allegedly to kill the Pope as a first test. Carlo sneaked in to the Pope's bedroom and killed him with his own drug. The Pope was about to tell Carlo of the fact it was an artificial conception, but the camerlengo knew the Pope had said enough.
-The camerlengo contacted [https://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Hassassin an assassin], a Muslim man who had always sought revenge on the Church, and employed him to kidnap four cardinals from the Vatican during the following papal election. As this was a public event, the camerlengo knew he would get the world's attention. The camerlengo had the assassin break into CERN and kill Leonardo Vetra, a top scientist, and steal his antimatter canister. The assassin returned the canister to the camerlengo, and Carlo Ventresca placed the canister in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_tomb St Peter's tomb] in the Necropolis. In the Necropolis, the antimatter bomb began ticking. The assassin, on Carlo's orders, also stole a CERN camera and placed it in the Necropolis to display live footage of doomsday. The assassin then kidnapped four cardinals and held them in the secret headquarters of the Illuminati, an ancient brotherhood sworn to destroy the Vatican.
-Carlo Ventresca announced the Pope's death and had the election begin, albeit without the favourite cardinals, whom he had had kidnapped. With the election underway, Leonardo Vetra's adopted daughter Vittoria and an American symbologist Robert Langdon were on route to the Vatican, as Vittoria needed to retrieve the canister before it exploded, and they were given a detour by the camerlengo, who pretended to sympathize with them, and announced to the world that the infamous Illuminati were back again to destroy the Church. Robert Langdon and Vittoria hunted around Rome for the assassin, whom they failed to catch, but they rescued the corpses of three of the cardinals whom the assassin had killed. Upon the third cardinal's death, the assassin kidnapped Vittoria, just when Carlo made a speech to the world about how the Church was human too and not just a stone building and how it deserved the world's friendship. In the same speech he said about how immoral science was and how it had not won fairly. He then chose to let the bomb tick down and have the cardinals escorted out before its detonation time of midnight. The bomb was found and retrieved however, by Robert Langdon and Vittoria after they'd confronted and killed the assassin after he'd killed the fourth cardinal, and then Carlo rode the helicopter up skywards and parachuted out before the bomb went off. Langdon had gone up with Carlo in the helicopter yet had no parachute, so he just free-fell all the way and yet survived when he landed on an island in Rome reputed to have healing powers.
-In hospital, Robert Langdon discovered that Carlo was the mastermind behind the plot, and although the Vatican had been saved, corruption was still present and needed unearthing. So Robert Langdon and Vittoria revealed that Carlo had hired the assassin to kill the cardinals and wanted to risk blowing up the Vatican. The cardinals were horrified and ashamed that a priest would want to do such atrocities, and an argument ensued wherein it was revealed that Carlo Ventresca was the Pope's son. Ashamed of killing his own father and overwhelmed with confusion, Carlo Ventresca marched up to the balcony overlooking St Peter's Square and made everyone face him, then poured oil over himself and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/self-immolation immolated] himself.
-His ashes were later buried with the other Popes, because he had been elected by adoration of the masses when he survived the fall from the helicopter and had become the shortest-reigning Pope of the Vatican.
-===Movie===
 McKenna is the Camerlengo of Vatican City and servant of the Holy Roman Church. He assumes temporary control of the Vatican while a new Pope is being elected, following the death of Pope Pius XVI, but four of the "preferiti" (favourite cardinals to be elected Pope) are kidnapped by the Illuminati. They threaten to kill one cardinal every hour and destroy Vatican City using a vial of antimatter that had previously gone missing from a nuclear research facility, which would act as a bomb. In reality, it is McKenna, not the Illuminati, who is behind the scheme, having wanted to claim the Pope's position for himself and gather the church's greatest followers to his side, as well as to deter people away from science. In despair, the Vatican summons a symbologist from Harvard University named Robert Langdon to help them rescue the preferiti and recover the vial.
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 The Cardinals have McKenna brought to the Sistine Chapel where he realizes that he has been exposed. McKenna leaves the chapel and runs into the Basilica. Entering the Confessio, he grabs one of the bronze lamps and extinguishes the lamp's flame. Pouring the contents of the lamp over himself, McKenna then commits suicide through self-immolation.
-Following McKenna's death, the church keeps the details of his crimes secret, instead announing that McKenna had died due to injuries sustained through saving the Vatican from the anti-matter.
+Following McKenna's death, the church keeps the details of his crimes secret, instead announcing that McKenna had died due to injuries sustained through saving the Vatican from the antimatter.
 ==Gallery==
+<gallery widths="300" bordercolor="gold" captiontextcolor="gold" position="center">
+Patrick McKenna.png|McKenna meeting with Robert Langdon.
+Patrick McKenna 2.png|McKenna within the Holy Roman Church.
+Patrick McKenna 3.png|McKenna aiding in the search for the missing vial of antimatter.
+Patrick McKenna 4.png|McKenna making a speech about the conflict between science and religion.
+Patrick McKenna 5.png|McKenna found by the Cardinals after being branded.
+Patrick McKenna 6.png|McKenna piloting a helicopter with the vial of antimatter.
+Patrick McKenna 7.png|McKenna hailed as a hero after disposing of the antimatter and saving Vatican City.
+Patrick McKenna 8.png|McKenna being summoned by the Cardinals.
+Patrick McKenna 9.png|McKenna revealed to have been involved in the conspiracy, and had in reality branded himself.
+Patrick McKenna 10.png|McKenna realizing that he has been exposed.
+McKenna's death.png|McKenna committing suicide by setting himself on fire.
+</gallery>
-<gallery>
-Patrick McKenna.png|McKenna meeting with Robert Langdon
-Patrick McKenna 2.png|McKenna within the Holy Roman Church
-Patrick McKenna 3.png|McKenna aiding in the search for the missing vial of antimatter
-Patrick McKenna 4.png|McKenna making a speech about the conflict between science and religion
-Patrick McKenna 5.png|McKenna is found by the Cardinals after being branded
-Patrick McKenna 6.png|McKenna piloting a helicopter with the vial of antimatter
-Patrick McKenna 7.png|McKenna is hailed as a hero after disposing of the antimatter and saving Vatican City
-Patrick McKenna 8.png|McKenna being summoned by the Cardinals
-Patrick McKenna 9.png|McKenna is revealed to have been involved in the conspiracy, and had in reality branded himself
-Patrick McKenna 10.png|McKenna realises that he has been exposed
-McKenna's death.png|McKenna commits suicide by setting himself on fire
-</gallery>
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