From Josh O’Connor to Andrew Scott to Gregory Peck, the hot priest has existed in pop culture for decades. But how does the fantasy hold up to reality? Ellen O'Connell Whittet takes a closer look.
Adulthood has held many surprises—that my mom really was right about everything, that cheese is criminally expensive—but for me one of the biggest has been the ascendance of the hot-priest trope. I knew a lot of priests growing up, both in Catholic school, which I attended through the 12th grade, and at weekly mass with my family.
On TV, Samantha Jones has fallen for a hot priest, as have the Derry Girls. Jude Law played the hottest of all priests in HBO’s The Young Pope, and Grantchester has a hot Anglican priest ready to step in when the last crime-solving, cassock-wearing beefcake leaves the show . There’s Richard Chamberlain in The Thorn Birds, Gabriel Byrne in Stigmata, and Liev Shreiber was just in Doubt.
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