Pedophile Priest: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Deep in prayer my cross to bear,

See also [[Corrupt Church]], [[Religion of Evil]], [[Sinister Minister]], [[Paedo Hunt]], [[Rape as Drama]].

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Invoked in ''[[The Five Star Stories]]'' with Bishop Iller, whose [[Artificial Human|Fatima]] partner, Ananda, is made to look like a [[Cute Shotaro Boy]].

* In the ''[[Black Butler]]'' anime, the leader of the Pure Church is implied to be one, which is why they were getting Ciel cleaned up.

 

* In one issue of ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', Spider Jerusalem investigates one of the president's consultants and learns he is associated with a church that is being used as a meeting for predatory child molesters. He arrives in the said place just in time to save a girl of becoming another victim of the priest who runs it.

** The Church of Mary Vestal Slut, specifically. Which adds another disturbing layer to the whole shebang, considering the child molesters considered kids "pre-sexual human beings" and wanted to legalize pedophilia.

* One of the 15 Portraits of Despair in ''[[The Sandman|Endless Nights]]'' is about a priest (not explicitly a Catholic priest) who gets booted out of the church, forcing him to start his life over, because he's accused of being one. He ''isn't'', but it makes no difference to the outcome.

 

* ''[[Doubt]]''

** Although, as the title implies, there is ambiguity about whether or not the accused character is actually guilty of this.

* The 2006 documentary feature ''Deliver Us From Evil'' tells the story of a priest who for 20 years was reassigned to many parishes in Northern California before he was caught and convicted in 1993. He was deported to his native Ireland in 2001 where he . . . well, see the entry regarding the 2006 episode of the BBC series ''[[Panorama]]'' under "Live Action TV" below.

* ''The Least of These'' features Father Andre James ([[Grey's Anatomy|Isaiah Washington]]) being transferred to a small, out of the way boarding school after the disappearance of a former priest. As the movie proceeds, much darker things are revealed in both the cases of the disappeared priest and his own past.<ref>* Father Andre is not the Pedophile Priest himself. In fact, he actively discourages even light sexual shenanigans, as we see in one scene where he chooses to dine in the main hall with the boys instead of in the private dining room with the older priests; he also takes the opportunity to confiscate the [[Porn Stash|dirty magazines]] one of the boys brings to dinner, dumping them right in the trash and calling out one of the boys who was looking at them, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|without even looking over his shoulder]].</ref>

 

== Literature ==

* Father Ralph de Bricassart in ''[[The Thorn Birds]]'' is a vague example of this. Although nothing happens between him and Meggie until she is in her mid-20's, it is strongly implied that he has had feelings for her since he met her, when he was 28, and she was ''10''.

* Michael Cordy's novel ''[[The Miracle Strain]]'' has a priest who rapes teenage girls. They're young enough that it counts as a sex crime in the US, though maybe not in other countries.

** He ''could'' just be plagued with [[wikipedia:Intrusive thoughts|intrusive thoughts]], but that probably isn't the intended implication.

** From how Nimrod's thoughts are described it seems as though he's subject to unwanted sexual thoughts of just about every possible variety

* Alberto Moravia's 1951 novel, ''[[The Conformist]]'' has Lino, a defrocked priest who attempts to molest 13-year-old Marcello near the beginning of the book.

 

* Surprisingly few episodes of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'', but enough. Although, when it happens, it's usually of the "Church is lousy with pedophiles" variety. One episode featured a priest who murdered a transgender hooker; it is quickly determined that he was molested by a priest. They find two pedophile priests in his church, and another victim molested by a different priest.

** And before that, there was the ''[[Law and Order]]'' episode where Logan inspected rumors about his old priest after a fellow former parishioner committed suicide.

* A few months after the film ''Deliver Us From Evil'' (see "Films" above) was released, a reporter and camera crew from BBC documentary series ''[[Panorama]]'' caught up with the pedophile priest profiled in the movie. Following his deportation from the United States, he was shown trying to get close to children yet again, all without the knowledge of the locals of his previous conviction for child molestation. (According to [[The Other Wiki]], a few weeks after the episode ran, he slipped out of Ireland. He turned up in The Netherlands in 2010 volunteering at a local parish under a pseudonym. A few months after that, he was found in Ireland to have kiddie porn on his laptop and several storage devices.)

* Referenced in an episode of ''[[Blue Bloods]]'' dealing with abuse of designer drugs by students at a Catholic school. After the headmaster stonewalls Danny and Jackie's request to search the school with drug-sniffing dogs, Frank goes to the bishop to get the headmaster overruled. Among Frank's lines in that scene is one that goes something like, "The Catholic Church cannot be seen covering up another scandal."

 

== Music ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgYbTGJcf1k Pope on a Rope] by The Meatmen (though only one verse refers to it)

* The [[Bad Religion]] song ''[[Sinister Rogue]]'' contains a mention of this, among other attacks on the Catholic church.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* Given how [[Darker and Edgier]] White Wolf tends to be, this is surprisingly averted in ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]'' with the head of the Inquisition. He's outrageously corrupt in other ways, {{spoiler|such as being addicted to vampire blood, and having a [[Will and Grace]] relationship with Satan's daughter,}} and is in fact homosexual, but while he does like them young (being [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], they have to be), he instead likes them legal, consenting, and...pitching.

 

== Theatre ==

* The Bishop of Basingstoke in ''[[Jekyll and Hyde (theatre)|Jekyll and Hyde]]'' (who is Anglican rather than Catholic).

 

== Video Games ==

* ''Operation: Pedopriest'', a political flash game inspired by ''Sex Crimes and the Vatican'', that has the [[Villain Protagonist]] try to protect pedophile priests from the police.

* Father Paul Rawlings in [[Clive Barker's Jericho]] is called this by SS-Commander Fräulein Hanne Lichthammer. This is never elaborated upon, but as a powerful psychic, Lichthammer has access to a person's darkest secrets (like Church's [[Rape as Backstory]]).

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'', see page illustration.

 

* Louis CK goes all-out with this trope [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvH59634H8 here].

* [http://www.apocalypsecartoons.com/fathertucker/fathertucker.html Father Tucker] the child f... Well, you get the drift.

* In [[Hellsing Abridged]], Anderson is repeatedly accused of being a pedophile by Alucard and Seras. Alucard seems to believe all members of the catholic church are. [https://youtu.be/4wwXphbJNBo?t=53s One of them actually is.]

 

== Western Animation ==

 

== Real Life ==

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* ''[[wikipedia:Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases|Wikipedia]]'' lists and details ''many'' cases of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

 

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[[Category:Rape Tropes]]

[[Category:Religion Tropes]]

[[Category:Tropes About Perverts]]

[[Category:Abuse Tropes]]

[[Category:Rule of Creepy]]