Everywhere in the world now, fiction or otherwise, priests or churches of any strong religion are portrayed as holding too much worldly power or just downright corrupt, like they're working for the devil instead of god, & nobody can prove it until the heroes got the counterattack measure. The moment that sleazebag called in a priest, I know that she's already a devil in disguise, or not a priest at all. What she had wasn't holy powers, as the ones with holy/light/healing powers are always good.