There’s a surprising range and diversity in the portrayal of clergy in movies. Hollywood had given us depictions that are comic (like Ed Norton’s lovelorn priest in Keeping the Faith) and criminal (the secretive Vatican cabal from The Godfather: Part III), outrageous (Christopher Reeve’s womanizing cad in Monsignor) and wonderfully nuanced (like the troubled Pentacostalist played by Robert Duvall in The Apostle).
Our list looks at the manliest of this bunch, from a city priest who dares stand up to the mob to a village vicar who has a strange way of turning the other cheek. And we’ll begin with a famous pair of priests who face off against an ancient foe…