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Hitchcock's I Confess and the world's failure to understand priesthood

Hitchcock's I Confess and the world's failure to understand priesthood

Update: 2025-06-17
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In Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film I Confess, a young priest in Quebec City is suspected of murder because of his unwillingness to break the seal of confession. A major theme of the film is the incomprehension with which the world sees the priesthood, such that people project their own sins onto the priest, resulting in a kind of white martyrdom.

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Music is The Duskwhales, "Take It Back", used with permission.

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Hitchcock's I Confess and the world's failure to understand priesthood

Hitchcock's I Confess and the world's failure to understand priesthood

Thomas V. Mirus, James T. Majewski