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Eric Stoltz as Father Michael Sweeney
Law and Order: SVU, Season 3, Episode 23: Silence (2002)
The murder of a transvestite in a Catholic Church, along with arson, results in the detectives uncovering evidence of sexual abuse by priests. They also discover evidence of hiding the fact that it occurred. After a false allegation against a suspect briefly interrupts the investigation, Detective Stabler must convince one priest to break the sanctity of Confession to prove that the reach of the abuse scandal goes much higher than the priests themselves.