Whiskey priest

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Whiskey Priest is a term used to describe a priest or ordained minister who shows clear signs of moral weakness, while at the same time teaching a higher standard. A whiskey priest's shortcomings may include many vices, but usually include alcoholism.

The term was coined by Graham Greene, referring to the unnamed main character in the 1940 novel The Power and the Glory.

Nicholas Wolfwood, from the anime series Trigun, may be considered a whiskey priest.

The main character in The Night of the Hunter would undoubtably qualify as a whiskey priest, and is in fact a murderer as well.

Friar Tuck, of Robin Hood fame, is sometimes depicted as a whiskey priest, although more often his physical weakness for food and drink is not shown as spiritual weakness.

In the Discworld novel Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, most of the Omnian clergy could be considered whisky priests, with the exceptions of the genuinely holy Brutha, and the pathologically insane Vorbis.

A Season 3 episode of Yes Minister was called "The Whisky Priest". In the episode Jim Hacker's wife tells him that, unlike Sir Humphrey Appleby, he at least has enough moral sense to know when he's done the wrong thing.