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The day after Palm Sunday, we turn on the TV and see the devil in a confessional encouraging adultery and tempting a priest with stripper nuns. Welcome to FOX’s Satan-themed police procedural
Lucifer.
In the episode “A Priest Walks into a Bar,” a Catholic priest goes to Lucifer Morningstar’s (Tom Ellis) bar asking for help in bringing down a neighborhood youth center being used as a front for an illegal drug operation. While Lucifer and LAPD Detective Chloe investigate, a man suspected of running the drug ring is killed.
Lucifer wants to believe that Father Frank, or as he calls him Padre Pederast, is the killer – “What better to way to stick it to dear old Dad than prove that those who speak on His behalf aren t as virtuous as they pretend to be, he snarks.