You won't be disappointed!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This was a hard one to watch.It is difficult to determine which feeling was dominant while I watched this documentary: rage to see a priest describing (apparently with no regrets) how he used to approach families and abuse their children; or a huge sense of sadness to hear the father of one survivor telling about how he feels guilty for not protecting his daughter.While I don't think the producers wanted to soften in anyway the crimes of Father Oliver O'Grady, they refrain from showing him as the only evil doer. Instead, they research on the hierarchy and other political aspects of Catholicism, revealing that the Catholic Church itself is as guilty as the pedophile priests (or even more) when it not only ignores the victims' complaints but actively tries to cover-up those crimes in order to protect its image.It is an excellent documentary but one that I probably won't have the stomach to watch again.

Documentary about Father Oliver O'Grady, a Catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the United States during the 1970s in an attempt by the Catholic Church to cover up his rape of dozens of children.Whether or not this documentary is objective is something I will not concern myself with. Typically, I think a documentary works best if it does not take a stand and lets the facts speak for themselves. However, in this case, it is hard to see a way to be neutral on child abuse -- we might be able to rationalize it by saying Father O'Grady is mentally ill, but we would never find his actions acceptable.There are two levels of wrong here. First, the direct wrong: O'Grady and the children. He ruined dozens of families, and these are wrongs that can never be made right. And whether he was a priest or not, we would find him to be an evil man. And yet, he served less than ten years in prison for the abuse (he did later return to prison for child pornography). How can this happen? But the deeper wrong is the cover-up. If O'Grady had abused one child and the matter was dealt with appropriately, it would not be the major story it is. Instead, he was moved to another parish and abused again. And then moved and abused again... and again... and while the bishop may not be criminally liable, the actions of O'Grady's superiors are in some ways just as much responsible for the crimes as the man himself. And while they may be covering their own butts for political reasons (to be promoted), it does the Church as a whole no good when the truth gets out.This is a story of the evils of abuse -- both child abuse and the abuse of power. And it is also a look at the Catholic Church and how it may be destroying itself, not through its beliefs, but through its inaction.

You judge a tree by its fruit. This documentary succeeds in letting viewers behold this dark little secret that the Catholic Church hopes you will never find out about: The rotting fruit of their sin-harvest that comes from unspeakably heinous crimes against children that are tolerated by them as being business-as-usual! Love is the desire to do good to others but that is the antithesis of all that the Catholic Church represents as it was portrayed in this documentary and as revealed by fearless journalists all over the world who have courageously accepted the bold challenge to find the truth no matter where it takes them and then tell it like it is.

Harboring Impure Thoughts is a sin in the mores of the Catholic Church. If one is attracted to a person sexually, a man, a woman, at whatever age, one also associates that quality with the object of even the most conventional Catholic marriage. So to a man who from the start of his sexual growth is trained as a Catholic priest, what's the difference between an object of pure lust and an object of affection? The danger, in turn, is not merely a danger to his own self but a danger to those objects of lust and affection of his. What's more, religion is extremely important to many people in all cultures. These people have children, who are raised with an obedient, conventional moral code that links inscrutability with their elders, whose trust is very easy for a neighborhood priest, their nearest connection with God, to acquire.Watching Amy Berg's effective documentary Deliver Us from Evil is a compelling encounter. Her interview cases betray to the camera virtually insufferable stratums of grief, and its audience goes home feeling both bewilderment and anger. There is an integral interview subject who is an Irish Catholic priest who is undeterred by where Catholic orthodoxy has led his decisions to rape and molest 25 children who looked up to him, saw him as a father, and is living out his days in the Irish countryside. If any citizen otherwise had committed the same crime, they would be playing the role of the child to a much bigger, stronger rapist for decades. What is it about this ideology that causes people all over the world to treat related matters with superiority over everyone else? I suppose it is the centuries of tradition that is reassuring to society, even while these families are burdened with crippling depths of shame for as long as they last. The weight of their shame is directly related to that of the trust they put into their victimizers.The film is not an indictment of people who practice the Catholic faith. Not by any means. It is a buoy for the devoutly faithful subjects surrounding Father Oliver O'Grady, who in the 1970s and '80s committed his crimes only to spend a mere seven years in prison and still keep his job, a voice and a vent for them. I know I haven't said much about the film itself, but the fact that I would rather talk about what the film made me think about should speak of the value of seeing it.