History Main / PedophilePriest

** In this French satiric puppet show, Cardinal Sylvestre and just about any Catholic priest shown (except the Pope) are portrayed as this. Comedic variant, of course. There is one skit were the [[{{Thememobile}} Popemobile]] is used to isolate the choirboys from a flock of such priests, forcing the Pope and his cardinals to walk beside.

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* Somewhat inverted in Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Manga/{{MW}}''. As a teenager, Garai sexually abuses the 9-year-old Yuuki Michio & later becomes a priest to atone for his sinful past.

* Subverted in the ''Manga/FairyTail'' omake about the punishment game. Cana has Wendy try on a lot of skimpy and/or furtive clothing (like a wedding dress), and when Wendy worriedly asks why, Cana says that she'll take Wendy to an old priest who likes that sort of "stuff". Wendy understandably becomes terrified, but when they actually meet the priest, there is nothing pedophile about him. The only reason Cana wanted Wendy to wear those clothes was that she wanted Wendy to make a good first impression by wearing fashionable clothing, but since Cana has no idea what fashionable clothing is, she just chose the skimpiest clothes as she always wears a skimpy outfit herself.
* [[spoiler:Nicchi]] of ''Manga/OtakuNoMusumeSan'' is an unapologetic lolicon and becomes a priest in the ending. Characters still have to violently keep him away from young girls.

* One of the 15 Portraits of Despair in ''ComicBook/TheSandmanEndlessNights'' 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.
* If Creator/GarthEnnis happens to write in a priest in one of his stories, chances are that priest is gonna be one, as seen in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'', ''ComicBook/ThePunisherPresentsBarracuda'', and ''ComicBook/RedTeam''.
* In ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'', pure holy water is said to be extremely hard to procure because the Vatican's holy water is extremely contaminated by the sins of its priests, especially their pedophilia.

* {{Defied|Trope}} in ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'', both in and out of universe. Molly considers taking a shot at the oneshot Catholic priest character but decides it would be too easy.
* Subverted in ''FanFic/AndersonQuestKillingVampiresAndWerewolvesAndLeprechuans'', which uses the ''Hellsing Abridged'' interpretation. As [[WorthyOpponent Anderson]] lies dying, Alucard actually ''apologizes'' for the pedophile jokes, admitting they were uncalled for and got old fast.

* DiscussedTrope A parish priest implies to it when Vernon went to pick up Harry from the church that he believes this is what he believes Vernon would [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8115510/3/Dear-Mummy "make allegations"]] when he was delving into Harry's abusive home life.

* A deleted scene of ''Film/InBruges'' would have subverted this. Ray assumes that the priest he killed was a pedophile because his boss is protective of children. However, Ken says that he was just opposing their boss' land grab.
* The second ''X-Files'' movie, ''Film/TheXFilesIWantToBelieve'', has a character like this who was made into a psychic visionary, implied to be done by God to make him atone for his actions.

* ''Le souffle au cœur'' (''Murmur of the Heart''). Laurent, 14 and a half, is in confession when his priest and teacher make a pass at him. Laurent asks to go back to class. The priest, annoyed, gives him an excessive penance: thirty Hail Marys. The priest seems to have a reputation for making passes at the boys. However, during the private lessons, he later gives a convalescent Laurent nothing much, if anything, happens.

* In ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'', a priest is seen reading "Altar Boy" magazine. Which has to be read sideways. Later in the movie, the stewardess has to say, "Between your own knees, Father," when instructing passengers to assume crash positions with heads between their knees.
* ''Film/NineDead'' is about nine people with apparently no connection to each other who are kidnapped, and told that one of them will die every 10 minutes unless they can tell their captor why they are all there. They all come to the conclusion that they all must have directly or indirectly screwed over their captor. One of the kidnapped people is a priest and is questioned over whether or not he molested the captor, which he vehemently denies. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope The priest is telling the truth]] and is one of the more sympathetic captives in the film.]]

* Robert [=DeNiro=]'s character in ''Film/{{Sleepers}}'' is an inversion. He is a friend and father figure to the four main characters as boys. When they tell him 16 years later about the sexual abuse they suffered in a juvenile correctional facility, he helps them punish the guards responsible.
* ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'': The Master is a cult leader who takes a six-year-old as one of his many brides.
* ''Film/{{Spotlight}}'' is all about how the ''Boston Globe'' went public with the story of how the local Catholic diocese had systematically covered up abuse, to the point of enabling further abuse by priests. [[ObliviouslyEvil Ronald Paquin]] [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization blithely rationalizes his abuse of children, claiming he didn't get any personal gratification from it]]. [[MyGodYouAreSerious The look on reporter Sacha Pfeiffer's face when he says that]] has to be seen to be believed. A bit of ArtisticLicense was taken with this scene and the chronology, but [[http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories/012602_paquin.htm Paquin's lines were almost word for word accurate]].
* The German film, ''Film/TheColony2016'', revolves around a young West German woman trying to rescue her boyfriend from ''Colonia Dignidad,'' a cult compound set up in a remote part of Chile, run by a German expatriate priest who routinely molests young boys, and preaches that the compound must be sexually segregated because love between a man and woman is wicked and sinful.

* In ''Film/TheConIsOn'', Peter describes Sidney as a 'pederast priest', although from what is seen, his taste seems to run to (probably) legal teenage boys.
* In ''Film/TheDeparted'', while discussing Billy Costigan's family background Sgt. Dignam notes that all of the men aside from Billy's father were criminals. Billy points out one of his uncles is a priest, but Dignam replies that he's currently "married to a 12-year-old boy, living on a beach in Thailand."

* The Black Brother in ''Film/{{Shrooms}}'' is heavily implied to be this. However, the UnreliableNarrator leaves some room for doubt.
* ''Film/MissMeadows'': One of Miss Meadows' victims is the town's Catholic priest, who sexually abuses one boy on-camera and, according to investigators after his death, has previously accumulated ''dozens'' of victims.
* Not an exact example, but in ''Film/PrimalFear'' the archbishop, who everyone in the neighborhood trusts and respects, turns out to have preyed on teenagers whom he had taken in off the streets and [[RapeByProxy forced them to have sex with each other]] on camera. The question of whether or not this could be considered an example comes from the fact he waits until they are of age for them to perform the acts. However, it's treated the same way even if he's not a pedophile.
* In ''Film/JohnDoeVigilante'', John Doe's first victim is a pedophile priest.
* In ''Film/{{Juncture}}'', one of [[VigilanteMan vigilante]] Anna's targets is a pedophile priest whom she attacks in the confessional.
* In ''Film/ScaryMovie2'', a pedophile priest is asked to help exorcist a demonically possessed teen named Megan and he is all too eager to help take advantage of her in her situation. In ''Film/ScaryMovie3'', Cindy Campbell's nephew Cody is heavily implied to being molested by a pedophile priest Cindy hires as a babysitter, as he immediately hides when the priest arrives and the priest says in a creepy tone (once Cindy is out of the house) "Cody...".
* ''Film/{{Sleepers}}'': Father Bobby is an {{inversion}}. He and the church serve as a heaven for the kids of Hell's Kitchen. Initially in the sense as a reprieve and a career alternative to crime, but later on, as a place to get (illegal) help and solace from sexual abuse.
* In ''Film/ShortCuts'', Lois Kaiser tells her friend Honey Bush that she got a call on her phone sex line from the bishop of her church asking for an incest scenario involving a four-year-old girl. She tells Honey she was disgusted by the idea but went through with it anyway, reasoning that acting out the scenario over the phone made it less likely he would try the real thing.
* In ''Film/{{Super}}'' one of the Crimson Bolt's {{Asshole Victim}}s during his vigilante crime-fighting is a priest who was about to get dirty on a young boy in his own car.

* A Baptist pastor, a Catholic priest, a rabbi, and a group of children are on board the Titanic. When the iceberg hits, the pastor yells "save the children!". The Rabbi says "fuck the children!". The priest says "do we have time for that?"

--> There was a young chaplain from King's\\

With a bottom like jelly on springs.

* Septon Utt from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The fact that he is the only member of the [[PsychoForHire Brave Companions]] who is even close to sympathetic really says a lot -- at least Utt feels guilt over what he does (even if it doesn't stop him) while the rest of the Brave Companions revel in their vileness.

* Jewish example: Carol Matas, best known for her young-adult novels about the Holocaust, wrote ''The Primrose Path'', about a teenage girl sexually abused by her rabbi.

* Michael Cordy's novel ''The Miracle Strain'' has a priest who rapes teenage girls. They're young enough that it counts as [[PaedoHunt a sex crime all its own]] in the US, though maybe not in other countries.
* Subverted with Brother Nhumrod from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s ''Literature/SmallGods''. Though it's implied that by the strictly literal definition of pedophile he qualifies, after Om accuses him of being a pederast, it's mentioned that while he might occasionally have "disquieting thoughts" in his head, he makes sure they stay in his head rather than him acting on them "and he did not in any literal sense deserve to be called what the tortoise called him, which, had he heard it, he would have thought was something to do with feet". His name, after all, is on one level a reference to impotence...
* Henry de Montherlant's ''Les Garçons'' has a priest in his 30s deep in unrequited love with a 14-year-old pupil at the boys' school where he works. The priest's attractions and emotions are directed at boys of around 12-15.
* Roger Peyrefitte's ''Les amitiés particulières'' (''Special Friendships'') is also set in a Jesuit school. One of the teacher-priests seems to fancy 14-year-olds Georges and Lucien, suggesting that they switch pyjamas and the like. Eventually [[spoiler:he is caught entertaining one of the boys in his study at night and kicked out of the school]]. Another of the priest-teachers loves 12-year-old Alexandre and has him sit on his lap.
* The Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: ''Free Fall'' has the Vigilantes take on a group of pedophiles, and one of them is a deacon, which is not exactly a priest, but pretty darn close. ''Under the Radar'' has the Vigilantes take on a polygamist (considered synonymous to "pedophile" in this story) sect in Utah, run by a Prophet named Harold Evanrod. While Harold is probably not supposed to be a priest, he might as well be.
* Alberto Moravia's 1951 novel, ''Literature/TheConformist'' has Lino, a defrocked priest who attempts to molest 13-year-old Marcello near the beginning of the book.
* Literature/TheDresdenFiles makes mention of modern media's fascination with this trope in ''Ghost Story'' when Father Forthill, a dependably and godly priest, [[ConversationalTroping asks a young man to crack any jokes relating to this trope so they can move on]].

* In the furry erotic novel ''Literature/AFoxTail'', it's stated that one of Vulpie's foster guardians when he was twelve was an assistant pastor named Vander Clishaw who had a side business as a drug dealer and liked to drug him up and invite some friends over to gang-bang him. Eventually one of Clishaw's rivals alerted Child Services and got him arrested, and after he got out of prison five years later his corpse was found with fourteen different stab wounds. Vulpie is suspected but it's never confirmed.
* Played around with in ''Literature/SkippyDies''. The students assume that Father Green is this, and the fact that he teaches French which makes him "[[BilingualBonus Père Vert]]" doesn't help. In the end, [[spoiler:after his death, everyone agrees to blame him for Skippy's abuse, rather than the [[KarmaHoudini swimming coach who's actually responsible]]. DoubleSubverted in that Father Green actually ''does'' fantasize about molesting children but never acts on it.]] However, some of his inner monologue [[spoiler:implies that he did molest children in Africa when he was there as a missionary.]]
* [[SinisterMinister Primate Annias]] from ''Literature/TheElenium'' was posthumously revealed to be this. It was already known that he'd slept with [[TheVamp Princess Arissa]] [[spoiler:and had a child with her]], but a mind-reading of one of his associates some time after his death reveals that they first got together when she was only ''twelve''.
* This is the secret of [[spoiler:Father Mick Honan]] in Benjamin Black's ''Holy Orders,'' who is attracted to both boys and girls.
* In [[Creator/JodiPicoult Jodi Picoult's]] novel ''Perfect Match,'' the main character's five-year-old son is molested by a Catholic priest.
* ''In Literature/TheKid'', the protagonist is molested by two of these at the catholic orphanage he lives in. It's implied the only reason he even ended up there is that [[{{Squick}} one of them took a liking to him.]]

* ''Series/BlueBloods''

* ''{{Series/Gotham}}'': The third person to be killed by "[[Recap/GothamS1E3TheBalloonman The Balloonman]]" was a man called Cardinal Quinn who was also known on the street as the "Diddling Priest" because of multiple accusations of sexual abuse.
* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lampshaded by Lestat in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self]]" when he says the two priests he had killed won't be missed because people will just assume they molested children.
-->'''Lestat''': A couple of parish priests go missing, people say, "Fine, most likely kid-fiddlers."
* ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'': David is the spiritual and actual leader of his "flock" who is introduced preaching from a Bible, and while he seems kind and gentle on the surface, he eventually demonstrates himself the biggest monster in the entire show. On top of his other crimes (including secretly feeding his people the flesh of their own loved ones), he holds 14 year-old Ellie captive, propositions her into entering a romantic relationship with him, and after she escapes, tries to violently rape her, while sneering that the struggling is his favorite part. It's strongly implied that Ellie wasn't his first victim, as he shows a particular interest in a teenage girl in his flock named Hannah, and tells Ellie that before the outbreak, he was a math teacher for kids around her age.
* Surprisingly few episodes of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', but enough. Although, when it happens, it's usually of the "Church is lousy with pedophiles" variety. One episode features 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.

* Grace's backstory in ''Series/SavingGrace'' features one of these.

* ''Series/Ultraviolet1998''. In the episode "Mea Culpa", a 12-year-old boy kills a priest and the team is sent to investigate if the killing is vampire-related. The priest in charge of the team, Pearse Harman, gets annoyed when ex-cop Michael Colefield thinks it's child abuse-related, {{Lampshading}} the pedophile Catholic priest cliché. Subverted at the end when it turns out the priest was innocent and vampires ''were'' involved, yet Harman cynically allows the public to believe the priest was a pedophile to maintain the {{Masquerade}}.

* ''Series/{{Oz}}''
** Played straight in an early episode when a priest convicted for pedophilia is unable to find anyone who will put him up while on parole, so he has to return to prison. Father Ray Mukada at first doesn't want anything to do with him, but he ends up trying to get his church to help -- they refuse for PR reasons. The ex-priest ends up being [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic nailed to the floor]] by the Aryan Brotherhood. This priest also turned himself in to the police and confessed.
** Subverted when Ryan O'Reilly tells his Catholic priest cellmate that he was molested by a priest as a child. "There are some bad priests...", the priest starts, but O'Reilly interrupts him and tells him he was just messing with him.
* [[HilariousInHindsight Long before the scandal broke]], Irish comedian Creator/DaveAllen (a lifelong critic of the Church in Ireland) performed a sketch where he played a priest exorcising a young girl. Allen commands the demon to begone and to depart to a place more suited to it. The girl blinks and says "Father, it's gone! I'm free!" Then she looks up in horror as she realizes from the priest's satanic laughter and contorted facial expression that the demon indeed ''has'' gone to a more suitable occupant -- the priest. Who then reaches for the girl with this look on his face that tells us ''exactly'' what he wants to do to her. The sketch ends with him chasing the girl down the nave of the church...
* ''Series/TheFall2013'': Spector spent time in a children's home run by one, but claims to have avoided being molested. The (now former) priest is completely unrepentant of his crimes when questioned.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'': One mini-episode sees [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSN-e_xmhgM&t=206s a creepy old pastor try to hit on]] Jessica Hamby. Of course, he constantly denigrates her by calling her a "whore". [[TheDogBitesBack Jessica bares her fangs, makes him admit he's married, then tells him to go back to his wife and have sex with her like it's his first time]]. Finally, Jessica makes him leave the bar, but not before she makes him shout "I'M A BIG FUCKING PERVERT WITH A BIG BONER FOR JESUS!"
* On ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Sam and Dean investigate a DemonicPossession report and encounter Crowley disguised as a Catholic priest investigating the same report (to see if it's one of the demons that serve him). When the {{Muggle|s}} who owns the house asks how they know each other, "Father" Crowley says that Dean used to be a "delicious" choir boy. He later implies that paedophilia is actually pretty tame compared to what some ''actual'' priests are into.
* ''Series/ColdCase'':
** The Protestant variety shows up on the episode "That Woman". When a high school student confesses to her youth minister (the leader of her chastity club, ironically) that she's having sexual fantasies about him, he encourages her to sit and tell them to him, with her back turned to spare her embarrassment. His tone of voice as he listens to her makes it obvious that he's enjoying himself.
** The trope was both [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] and [[ExploitedTrope exploited]] in "Glued", when the team was investigating the death of an 8-year-old boy in a Catholic neighborhood and realized that the killer had [[{{confessional}} confessed]] the murder to a priest. They brought the main suspect and the priest to headquarters and told the suspect that the priest had left the Church in protest of the pedophile cases and was no longer under the vow to keep silent. This made the suspect panic and confess himself.
* Inverted in ''Series/{{Fleabag}}''. [[NoNameGiven The Priest]] is not a paedophile, but his (non-Catholic) brother is.
-->"I'm aware of the irony."

* ''Series/NipTuck'' features one in a memorable role. Sean and Christian operate to remove a large birthmark from a patient's penis, with his excuse being that it made his fiancee uncomfortable. Later they see a news report, which shows a local Catholic priest (the patient, who'd been using a fake name and accent with the doctors) has been exonerated of molesting multiple boys at the church after an examination from the court showed no birthmark, which had been a key part of the boys' testimony. Horrified, the doctors attempt to report their work to the police, but cannot do so directly because of their own skeletons in the closet, and their anonymous tip falls through. Christian, who was sexually abused as a child, takes the revelation particularly hard and ends up cornering the priest in the confessional with a scalpel and threatening to murder him if he doesn't confess to the police. He does.
* In ''Series/ThirtyRock'' Reverend Gary, the leader of the {{Cult}} that Kenneth is part of, is obviously attracted to teenage boys.
* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': Michael Gray (son of the Shelby Brothers' Aunt Polly) was taken from his mother and put in a Catholic boys' home at the age of six. He was later taken in by an apparently loving or at least caring family in the countryside, but while that was pending one of the priests, Father Hughes, raped him. Nearly 20 years later, Father Hughes reappears in various dealings with the Shelby Company, leading to [[spoiler:his death at Michael's hands in a company-approved hit (Tommy Shelby having business reasons to be rid of the creep).]]
* In the ''Series/SonOfACritch'' episode "Father Critch", Mark declares his intention to enter the priesthood, blissfully unaware that the local priests have all been caught up in the Mount Cashel Orphanage scandal, up until his intended mentor suddenly resigns.

* "Priest", by Music/StephenLynch, is a song of a priest barely trying to resist his urges toward one of the altar boys.
* Music/{{Rammstein}}
** "Halleluja" in contrast to "Priest" above, is about a priest ''not'' trying to resist his urges.
** "Rosenrot" may count too, at least the video. Well technically will be a hebephile as the girl is in her middle to late teens, but is still invoking the trope. The girl's actress, Cătălina Lavric, was 14 at the time which caused certain controversy then (as Rammstein videos ''normally'' do).
* Music/TimMinchin:
** In the ''very'' cuss-laden "Pope Song", Minchin takes aim at then-Pope Benedict XVI, who allegedly covered for priests that molested kids back when he was still a cardinal, and calls him no better than the priests in question because of this.
** "Come Home (Cardinal Pell)" is a direct appeal/accusation to one of the priests alleged to have covered up abuse to face a court in Australia. It references Gerald Risdale, Pell's former flatmate and one of the most prolific abusers. The money from the sale of that song was used to fly victims to Rome so they could be physically present when Pell gave his evidence via video link.
%%* The target of Music/TheUsed's angry, profane song "Liar Liar (Burn in Hell)".
* Music/SineadOConnor has campaigned for years about exposing pedophilia in the Catholic Church and often incorporates the fight into her music and performances.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dys1_TuUmI4 Crying For The Moon]] by Music/{{Epica}}.
* "Devil in a Midnight Mass" by Canadian band Music/BillyTalent was inspired by Fr. John Geoghan, a particularly infamous example. According to writer and frontman Ben Kowalewicz in a Creator/MuchMusic interview:
--> ''[The song] came from a story I read about Boston priest John Geoghan who had been arrested for child abuse and the church kept moving him from parish to parish. The Supreme Court tried and convicted him of molesting 150 kids over a 30-year span and while he was serving his sentence another inmate broke into his cell and murdered him. I stumble upon these stories, they don't necessarily have to be directly personal but it's things like this that move me. I'm a big advocate for children's rights and this song looks at sexual abuse. It's not against the church or anything, it's more about that individual betrayal between adult and child. I don't have the answers but hopefully, if I sing about a certain issue it will get people talking about it.''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZR6LWF2w4w Preacher Man]] by Inkubus Sukkubus.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgYbTGJcf1k Pope on a Rope]] by The Meatmen (though only one verse refers to it).

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxjrHPHypA Pope Rap]] by Trevor Moore (of ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'') mentions this among many, ''many'' of the alleged atrocities the Catholic Church has committed.
* Briefly referred to in Music/ThePixies' "Bone Machine":
-->''I was talking to preachy-preach about kissy-kiss,\\
He bought me a soda\\
He bought me a soda\\
He bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot. Yup-yup-yup!''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9nHvmdAb4 Another Irish Drinking Song]] by Da Vinci's Notebook:
-->''And dear old Father Flanagan, who left the Lord's employ\\
Drunk on sacramental wine, beneath the altar boy.''

* In the music video for Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Role Model", Eminem plays a corrupt priest who invites a little boy into his bedroom.
* Music/{{GWAR}} gives us Father Bohab: a big-headed, bible-thumping priest who chases after the band as much as he chases after kids.

** There's also a skit where [[Film/TheTransporter Frank Martin]] has to escort a bunch of altar boys back home after the Sunday mass in his car, with various lecherous clergymen charging to get them and getting the crap beaten out of them by Frank as a result. The FinalBoss happens to be Pope Benedict XVI's brother, and he's treated as TheBrute.

* The parody game ''TabletopGame/{{Hol}}'' has one as one of the game's pre-generated characters as part of its whole VulgarHumor atmosphere.

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* The play ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}'' (and the movie adapted from it) centers on the efforts of an old-school nun to remove a progressive priest from the Catholic school she runs, on the grounds that he is (she believes) a pedophile. Although the final scenes imply that she was correct, she is now plagued with doubts about her own less-than-pure motives and methodology.

* In ''VideoGame/OutlastII,'' exposure to the Morphogenic Engine slowly causes Blake's RepressedMemories of his dead childhood friend Jessica to bubble to the surface; he's spent his adult life believing that she killed herself due to living in a broken home, and relied on memories of her suicide note and hung body to back it up, but he eventually remembers that he witnessed her be [[spoiler: [[AccidentalMurder pushed down a flight of stairs and unintentionally killed]] by their Catholic school's priest, who was sexually abusing her, and he forced Blake to keep quiet about it and go along with her staged suicide.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Reincarnation 2008}}'' game, ''The Clergy of Unholy'', the demon protagonist, whose job it is to track down Reincarnies (those that have EscapedFromHell and reincarnated on earth) and send them back to Hell, takes on a Reincarny who turns out to be one of these. When the demon discovers a drugged-up altar boy in Saul's bedroom while searching through his church, it provides all the proof that the demon needs to send Saul back to Hell.

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* ''Webcomic/ExploitationNow'': When picking up Bimbo's sister Bush from the nunnery, Ralph wandered off for a bit and came back looking disheveled. One of the girls' theories as to how that happened was that a near-sighted priest lost his glasses and mistook for a choir boy.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvH59634H8 Louis CK goes all-out with this trope.]]
* The website Apocalypse Cartoons features a NSFW animated web series titled ''WebAnimation/FatherTucker'', which is about a priest who constantly molests children [[KarmaHoudini and hardly ever faces any punishment for it]]. He takes this to the extreme, raping not only children but also infants. One episode reveals that he is the most prolific pedophile in the history of mankind, with 6,473,210 counts of pedophilia.
* ''WebVideo/ShaneDawson'': Shanaynay's interview with Lucas Cruikshank gives us this:
-->'''Lucas:''' I never masturbate because I'm Catholic.\\
'''Shanaynay:''' Oh so you only do it with... a priest, I gotchya'.

* ''Literature/TheDayTheMusicDied'': The narrator notes that Donny Benson, leader of the National Bible Truths Foundation, was eventually caught in a hotel room with both BDSM equipment and a teenage boy.

** The episode 4 preview has Maxwell interrogating a member of the Vatican who has been selling information to [[ThoseWackyNazis Millennium.]] Maxwell assumes the priest was motivated by promises of immortality, as Millennium's other agents were, but it turns out that in addition to that, he was bribed with little boys to have his way with. The priest does not survive, having his brains blown out by Heinkel soon after the interrogation is over.

'''Priest:''' [''stammering wordlessly'']\\

* During the episode of ''WebVideo/BerserkAbridged'' where it looked like they switched to doing Hellsing, Alucard makes a zing about this to the vampire holding Seras hostage. The two then debate if it was too much before Zodd showed up and began asking what happened to his usual show.
* UsefulNotes/CheGuevara uses this as a diss against UsefulNotes/GuyFawkes in ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'':
-->''[What I'm fighting for] sucks? Guy, you died for the Catholics\\
A group with a bad touching little boys habit!''

-->'''Wooldoor:''' So, you want to be an altar boy?
-->'''Boy:''' No I don't! You took me from the playground!
-->'''Wooldoor:''' ''GOD took you from the playground!!''

--->'''Peter''': Pat's an icon. That statue belongs right here in the park, next to the statue of Quahog's greatest missionary, Father Touchboys.\\
'''Girl''': That statue was removed a year ago.\\
'''Peter''': For what?!

** And then there's "[[Recap/SouthParkS22E02ABoyAndAPriest A Boy And A Priest]]" wherein Father Maxi considers leaving the priesthood because of the residents' constant mockery, despite having never done such things. He eventually decides to stay because if he leaves, another ''actual'' pedophile priest might take his place, since the church only moves the abusers around, as opposed to removing them entirely.

* One of the Paedofinder General segments in ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'' ends with a priest walking away while expressing relief that the Pedofinder General did not suspect him of being a paedophile.

* In ''ComicBook/RequiemChevalierVampire'', pure holy water is said to be extremely hard to procure because the Vatican's holy water is extremely contaminated by the sins of its priests, especially their pedophilia.

** The episode "Red Hot Catholic Love" shows local priest Father Maxi as just about the only non-pedophile priest in the entire Catholic Church. (He has been shown makin' it with at least one adult female parishioner though as well as Cartman's mom.) Then again, Father Maxi is in a [[DependingOnTheWriter different place on the corruption spectrum]] in pretty much every episode in which he appears.
** In "Hell on Earth 2006," all the Catholic priests are shown leading around naked boys on leashes. No one appears to notice or care even when they are in public.
** And then there's "A Boy And A Priest" wherein Father Maxi considers leaving the priesthood because of the residents' constant mockery, despite having never done such things. He eventually decides to stay because if he leaves, another ''actual'' pedophile priest might take his place, since the church only moves the abusers around, as opposed to removing them entirely.

* ''Series/TheAtheistExperience'' (and ''The Non-Prophets'' podcast) regularly criticizes Catholic priests and Protestant ministers for this behavior.