1) The sanctity of confession between a priest and the person giving confession. If it is under the sacrament of confession the priest is bound to secrecy, which comes up when Evan asks Bridget if she told Fr Phil about the statue while she was in confession or not - twice.
2) How a journalist is always a journalist no matter what the encounter - where the who, what, where, when, how, why - takes precedence over any relationship between the journalist & the 'subject.' This comes up in the last scene between Evan & Bridget. Colleen's father was a well known and respected journalist - Pat Curran - and her sister, Peggy Curran, is an award winning journalist.
3) Why has Evan left whatever position he was in at a major paper - Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax, etc - to BUY a weekly paper in Westfalia? Buying being the key verb here - he'd need to have some Canadian dollars available to do a purchase.
4) There's also the matter of trust & faith in people and religion which comes out very strongly in the encounters between Evan & Bridget, after they have their 'almost' intimate moment.
... note: found and posted a glossary entry on confessional rules. Preliminary research on reporter confidentiality yielded nothing substantial ... to follow up.
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