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A Catholic priest's typical mundane routine is interrupted by a sick woman who requests his presence in fear of her own death. However, what Father Macdowell soon understands is that the woman's wishes conflict greatly with her protective lover, who sees no importance in religious practices.

In Jim Crow North Carolina, a Black man new to town inadvertently becomes witness to a relationship between the town priest and a seventeen-year-old seminary student, and must stand trial when the priest is accused of statutory rape.

In a convent, a young nun’s internal war between desire and religion comes to a head when she makes a new, devious friend.

Blood, sweat and bronco balls: a white East Coaster doesn’t know what life is like for Wyoming cowboys and part-Indians until he’s spent a day gelding. That’s castrating stallions, for all you white East Coasters.

A father recounts a story to his son about his past life as a priest.

A young priest who sees the world through rose-colored glasses admires an older woman dedicated to the parish. When she requests that he visit her, his overly optimistic expectations of churchgoers, and his honor of being a young clergyman, are challenged.

In concentration camps of a distant past, a middle-aged mother seeks vengeance for her daughter's death with dark, heretical magic, despite her devout husband's disapproval. Ultimately, she sacrifices her life to save her soul and liberate her fellow prisoners.

After dropping out of the Jesuit priesthood, a struggling graduate student studying theology meets a fellow Catholic graduate student. The two explore their sexual desires irrespective of what the Church has taught them.

After witnessing a wife wracked with grief stand over her husband's dead body, a priest is filled with anxiety at the thought of both his own and his loved ones' mortality.

After a hospital nurse who is also a church sister has an argument with an atheist patient that nearly gets her fired from her job, she surprisingly convinces him to come to her church.