ABSTRACT
According to legend, Alfred Hitchcock (himself a Catholic) was once driving through a small Swiss town. All of a sudden, he pointed his finger at something through the car window and said: “This is the most terrifying scene I’ve ever seen!” A friend sitting at his side looked in the direction pointed out by Hitchcock with surprise: there was nothing remarkable out there, just a priest who, while talking to a young boy, put his hand onto the boy's arm. Hitchcock halted the car, rolled down the window and shouted: “Run, boy, save your life!” While this anecdote could be taken as a display of Hitchcock's eccentric showmanship, it does bring us to the “heart of darkness” of the Catholic Church – how?
