Get your frocks off
Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned.
We have the hots for some men of the cloth.
(Conveniently, many church pews have cushions that can help with that.)
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Here are 17 of our favorites.
Scott makes the wordkneelsound like a titillating order and a sexy supplication all at once.
We’ll never look at confession the same way again.
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But at its heart is the forbidden love between Father Ralph de Bricassart and Meggie (Rachel Ward).
They meet when Meggie is just a girl, and Father Ralph feels a tenderness for her.
And it’s not just their tragic, forbidden loveeven Drogheda matriarch Mary Carson is thirsty for Father Ralph.
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But, like, have you seen him in riding boots?
He cuts a stunning figure in his cassock as a man consumed by religious devotion.
Now that’s literally a hot priest.
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A priest with a forbidden love story who’s also an upstanding member of the church?
Seeing Samantha fail in her attempts to fulfill her religious fantasies makes us, well, incensed!
Murder, priests, and forbidden canoodling on an island?
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Your prayers have been answered.
He plays an Anglican man of the church who moonlights as an amateur sleuth.
This is one hot man of the cloth we can feel less guilty about crushing on.
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Is this a case of hate the sin, love the sinner?
Because Father Flaherty is oh so bad, and we think that’s oh so good.
He makes us so thirsty we can’t help reaching for that Communion wine.
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Father Brian wrestles with his faith, his vows of celibacy, and his erotic dreams about Amy.
Cas-sock it to me!
He can exorcise our demons any time he wants.
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As evidence mounts and tragedy strikes, Father Gutierrez begins to question his faith in life-altering ways.
Historically groundbreaking archaeological discoveries, a sexy priest, and a crisis of faith?
We’re gonna be pontificating about this one for a long time.
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Pope Pius XIII, a.k.a.
Lenny Belardo, (Jude Law) onYoung Pope
Jude Lawis the pope.
What more do it’s crucial that you know?
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Law plays a pope dedicated to restoring conservative extremism to the Catholic Church.
He goes on his own journey to revelation, side-stepping blackmail and familial drama along the way.
But again, like, do you really need to know more than Jude Law rocking that gold miter?
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And then relaxing in the Vatican gardens in sunglasses looking cooler than should be humanly possible?
No, you don’t.
That’s why it’s called faith.
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