The scene where the Priest has just been shot and he is running into the room and we’ve also realized that during this time period (as the Professor had mentioned that Ireland and America has had the largest number of cases regarding sexual abuse with Priests and children), it seems ironic that the actor who plays the Priest is Irish and the room he enters just happens to have a boy in there. Either I might just be reading too much into it but were we supposed to think the Priest was abusing that child or was it just simply ‘the priest bringing about the death of a child’ as a symbol of all the sexual abuse cases around the world.
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Being that this movie came out in the 2000’s and a lot of the cases concerning child abuse by Catholic priests exploded during this time, this definitely suggests that this would be the case. Considering this movie has a very altered view on morality, killing a priest is justified if he commited such an atrocious crime like child molestation. Tying this ties into the whole mafia-esque moral code/politics of organized crime, and how Ray is supposed to be killed for accidently killing a child, these perverted justifications for commiting murder are definitely an underlying theme. Being that the priest who plays him is Irish, it is no coincidence that they would cast him as a priest at a time when there’s a lot of upheaval within the Vatican trying to soften the blow of a very serious situation.