Priests in Peril #3: Antonia Bird’s Priest
Sunday Apr 17, 2022 @ 1:30 PM Central Time
The third in our series on “priests in peril,” Priest is about a Catholic priest in a Liverpool inner-city parish trying to reconcile his love for another man with his love for God, but when a girl steps into the confessional and reveals that her father sexually abuses her, he’s frustrated by the laws of the church which forces him to remain silent. Equally vexing to him is his own sexual orientation. According to the Washington Post, the film “is an emotional epiphany for both the characters and the audience, all bathed in the balm of forgiveness.” (1994, cc, 98 minutes.)