The Confessional (1976)

Mervyn Johns: Father Duggan

Quotes 

• Father Duggan : I can't see the reason for your concern, Bernie. You've made a decision and you've made the right one. Ironically enough you're just the man the church needs.

  Father Bernard Cutler : Do you mean that?

  Father Duggan : Bernard, I've never be able to understand why the Catholic Church looks upon itself as a kind of prison, with those in its service doing life sentences. Just because a man can't live by its code doesn't mean to say that he can't further the religion in another occupation.

  Father Bernard Cutler : Some might call it cowardice.

  Father Duggan : They might at that. I would call it honesty. If you stayed on, you'd be a hypocrite and we've enough of those as it is.