Priest (1994)
- Information at Internet Movie Database
- Cinema in Focus, a social and spiritual commentary by Hal Conklin and Denny Wayman.
- Review, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Health - Spiritual Practices for Human Being.
- Themes
- Confession
- A father who is sexually abusing his daughter is in the confessional with the young priest, talking about the way he (the father) uses her. His face, to me, is a chilling confrontation with evil. (submitted by Meg Queior, Richmond ME)
- Confrontation with Evil
- A father who is sexually abusing his daughter is in the confessional with the young priest, talking about the way he (the father) uses her. His face, to me, is a chilling confrontation with evil. (submitted by Meg Queior, Richmond ME)
- The mother/wife interrupts an episode of her husband's abuse of their daughter and, in her own way, confronts the evil she has discovered with anger and outrage (and a knife in hand) -- all against the backdrop of the young priest's fervent, distressed prayers. (submitted by Meg Queior, Richmond ME)
- Prayer
- The young priest prays in anguish over his inability to intervene in the abuse suffered by one of his young parishioners, at the very same time the mother of the girl arrives home unexpectedly to discover the abuse firsthand. (submitted by Meg Queior, Richmond ME)
- Reconciliation
- "Priest" offers a very moving reconciliation scene at the very end of the film, as the young girl who has been abused by her father, comes forward to receive the Eucharist from the young priest, himself shunned by the rest of the congregants because of revelations about his sexuality. (submitted by Meg Queior, Richmond ME)
- Confession
