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Personal experience and a lot of reading demonstrates that there are a preponderance of gay men in the roman catholic priesthood.

Films keep being made about this. You would think by this time there would be something on offer for the gay priest than the closet and celibacy.

The celibacy part is a dilemma for all priests gay and straight. The few guys that I have known who are, as far as I know, still gay and still priests tell me that there is a lot of action if one is willing to keep it on the down low.

In any case, there are conflicts galore and it makes a good movie subject.

Here we go again in

In the Name Of (2013)

In this case, a latent queer priest finds himself unavoidably smitten with an equally queer young man under his care. He does have a history which is not, apparently, because they keep transferring him. And so here he goes again.

As we all know, a bit of knowledge apparently lost on the catholic hierarchy, you can't really suppress mother nature and the healthier the priest the more likely he is to be an active sexual man in whatever arrangements suit him.

This is a very good film. It avoids many of the pitfalls of the formula gay priest film and somehow just makes this a coming out story. Two men, incidentally.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5 only because I cannot like a film that sort of condones or goes along with something so alien to human nature. But, it is a Polish film and the Poles are deeply indoctrinated catholics, even the apostates.

The acting is great. The small town setting superb. The feel is quite realistic and it brings home the quandary that must be felt by these guys. After all, they did sign on for life, marrying the church and all.

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