The latest installment…
Detour - Mulder says in a comical sigh of relief, “Thank you, Jesus.”
Christmas Carol - Episode starts with a Scully’s brother’s wife setting up her Nativity Scene (that good old tradition started by St. Francis). They have the flashback scene to Scully’s youth when her mom gives her the cross necklace that you see throughout the show. Scully gives her cross to a little girl.
Emily - Mulder tinkers a bit with the Nativity Scene at Scully’s brother’s house. Later, Scully is seen in church at a funeral. There is a shot of the stained glass of the Virgin Mary and Child. The episode ends with Scully getting her cross back.
Kitsunegari - The Little Sisters of Charity nuns are said to visit inmates.
Schizogeny - Teenage girl has a statue of St. Michael the Archangel in her room.
Kill Switch - An Artificial Intelligence creates a hospital dream for Mulder with a Crucifix over his bed.
All Souls - (SPOILER ALERT!!!) Episode begins with a Catholic priest baptizing a teenage girl named Dara who is confined to a wheelchair. The theology of the baptism is sound. As the priest prepares, he says: “Baptism is the rite of initiation. This holy water takes away original sin. The Sacrament confers the grace of God, bringing the soul into God’s family.” That night the girl is seen walking and encounters a mysterious figure in the street, there is a bright light, and she dies in a prayer position. After the theme song, Scully is back in the confessional! She tells the story of what happened in the episode to the priest from there as they go into flashbacks. She is shown exiting mass and the priest calls out to her. He says he’s pleased to see her there more often, and Scully says she tries to go more. He asks her to look into the case of Dara. As it turns out, this girl is one of quadruplets. A strange priest visits one of the twins in an effort to adopt her. He has an upside-down cross necklace hanging from his car mirror. A social worker guy is introduced to supposedly handle the adoption case of this second twin. The twin is soon visited by the light figure again and she also dies in the prayer position. Both Dara and the second twin had extra fingers and toes. Scully gets Mulder’s help, and he is convinced this upside-down cross priest named Father Gregory is a psychopath, denying anything paranormal involved in another Scully-Mulder/skeptic-believer reversal episode. The upside-down cross priest says he left the “Roman Church” and started his own: St. Peter the Sinner Church, in honor of St. Peter being crucified upside-down. He has much Apocrypha in his church such as Enoch and the “Book of J.” Anyway, the third twin is killed in the same light-prayer-position manner soon after. We discover that the social worker guy is the devil who kills Father Gregory who knows the location of the fourth twin. Scully has a few visions of her deceased daughter throughout the episode. And later she has a vision of the strange dark figure who reveals four faces of animals. Scully tells this to the first real Catholic priest (not the one in the confessional, but the one who asked her on the case) and he says it’s a seraphim who in apocryphal literature mated with a woman and created four nephilim, deformed humans not quite angelic, and whose souls God wished returned. Hence these girls are suggested to be these four nephilim with their deformities and the first three made it to heaven, and the devil still wants the fourth. (It then becomes quite significant that the seraphim supposedly waited to take the first girl until she was baptized in the first scene!!) So anyway, Scully saves the fourth girl who also dies in the prayer-position, and she winds up the story in the confessional. The Catholic parts were fairly sound. All the Catholic priests are portrayed as intelligent and kind. The ex-priest was also a good guy.
