Alex, moving ever farther from his vocation, defies his superiors and secretly reads a holy service over the body and buries Dominic in the Carolingian cemetery.Дriscoll arrives in Rome and gives Alex a special dagger. He heads to the Vatican, where an official tells him that Sin Eaters don't exist and that Dominic may not be buried on sacred ground because he had been excommunicated.

Alex comes across a book that explains the markings as being the sign of a Sin Eater's work. He contacts Thomas Garrett, another Carolingian, who comes to Rome to help investigate Dominic's death. In Rome, Alex visits the morgue and sees strange markings on Dominic's corpse. Mara goes to Rome with Alex after promising that she won't try to kill him again.

Alex lies and denies that he's seen her and it is revealed that Mara was in the hospital because she had tried to kill Alex during the exorcism. The police come looking for her, and tell Alex that Mara has escaped from a mental hospital. Mara Williams, an artist Alex once exorcised, comes to Alex at his church and says that she has a feeling that something terrible is going to happen to him. Father Dominic, the head of the Carolingians, has died in Rome under suspicious circumstances and Alex is sent by Cardinal Driscoll ( Peter Weller), who is tipped to be the next Pope, to investigate. The Roman Catholic Church, according to the film, considers this heresy.ДЄlex Bernier ( Heath Ledger), an unhappy and disillusioned priest and a member of the fictitious Carolingian order, which specializes in fighting demons and other hell-spawn. The purified soul can then ascend into heaven. A secular Sin Eater can remove all taint of sin, no matter how foul, from the soul just before death. The film's premise is that there is another way to heaven than adherence to the practices of the Roman Catholic Church. ( June 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.

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