I doubt she would. It is one thing to abstractly say that the evil comes from God too, but it's another thing for a mom to let a man who committed an evil act against a child close to her own child. Maternal instincts trump religious dogmas any day!
shareI wondered the same thing after seeing this and I have my doubts on her continuing their relations as well. There was an excellent conversation they had about forgiveness that I'm sure will replay in her mind, though.
shareHe begged her forgiveness and after all she is a priest? But I liked the open-ended conclusion.
shareWhat you're putting your finger on here is what I see to be one the possible interpretations of this film:
"The relativity of truth and meaning."
That Poppe ended this film without giving us a definite answer to your question and a lot ambiguity about other important questions brought up in the storyline seems to suggest that he is telling the viewer that there is no Absolute Truth, or Absolute Meaning in this world, or even in your life or in my life. What is "right" and "wrong", what has "meaning" and what has "no meaning" is really a fluid thing that changes according to new information that we learn, and changing circumstances in our lives.
But one of the paradoxes of being a human being is that we don't really like this relativity that is inherent in our lives. We seek Absolute Meaning in our lives, we demand Absolute Meaning in our lives, we even sometimes pretend that there is Absolute Meaning in our lives and are able sometimes to get away with such pretensions for a long time. But the relativity of "meaning" and of "truth" that lies at the core of human existence rears its ugly head, sooner or later, and we realize the folly of assuming that there is anything really Absolute about life whatsoever.
This clinging to the folly of Absolute Truth and of Absolute Meaning is revealed several times in this film. As you suggested, it is revealed when the priestess must confront the folly of her Absolute spiritual beliefs in the face of a child murderer being near here son. It is revealed when the poor mother of the murdered child tries to find some Absolute Meaning in the murder of her young son, and gets unhinged behind it by the end of the film. It is revealed in the young ex-convict organist who clings to the Absolute Meaning that he ascribes to a rather cold, atheistic viewpoint that he holds after he is released from prison, only to see it melt away as he takes communion. It is revealed to both the mom and dad of the murdered child when the Absolute Meaning, the stability that they have found in their "new" lives with two adopted daughters is shattered by the release from prison of the man who murdered their son. It is revealed to the organist when the Absolute Meaning that he finds in his life by pretending to himself, and to others that he is innocent of murdering that little boy is smashed by the dead boy's mom kidnapping the priestess's little boy in despair, and the tragic aftermath finally make him admit to the mom, and to everyone else that he is indeed a child murderer.
Over and over again, this film drums into our minds that we can find no Absolute Meaning or Absolute Truth in our lives. We can only define the fleeting, transient "meaning" and "truth" that we find right now, just at the present moment in time.
To answer your question directly, the way the film ends, it could go either way. But for sure, the priestess' growing romantic involvement with a man who turns out to be a child murderer will surely rock the bedrock of her faith in the Absolute Truth of her spiritual convictions forever.