Scandal in the vatican gay movie

The clergy child-abuse scandal roiling the Roman Catholic church hasn't always been front-page news, but, over the years, it's been thoroughly recorded on film. Here's how five acclaimed documentaries or fact-based docudramas have deftly handled the explosive topic since Deliver Us From Evil Amy Berg's "sometimes sickening but vitally relevant" documentary focuses on now-defrocked priest Oliver O'Grady, who admitted to molesting roughly 25 boys and girls in California from the late s to After seven years in jail, he was deported to Ireland in The film's "most disturbing element," says Desson Thompson in The Washington Postis Berg's interview with O'Grady in Dublin; the "remorseless child molester" is "ambling freely among schoolchildren as he recounts his patterns of abuse with almost cheery glee.

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. The Boys of St. Dramatizing real-life sexual and physical abuses of boys at a Christian Brothers orphanage scandal in the vatican gay movie Newfoundland, this film focuses on year-old orphan Kevin Reevey and Brother Peter Lavin Henry Czernythe sadistic pedophile who heads the orphanage.

The "emotionally devastating" story is told with "a matter-of-factness that gives it the solid credibility of a documentary," says Janet Maslin in The New York Times. It's all the more "shocking," and powerful, says Jeannette Sloniowski at the Museum of Broadcast Communicationsbecause it "asks the audience to understand Lavin, and even gives the audience his point of view as he molests Kevin.

A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day — and the best features from TheWeek. Exposing the effects of child-molestation on a family, filmmaker Joe Cultrera tells the story of his brother Paul's investigation into the Boston archdiocese's mishandling of his accused molester, Fr.

Joseph Birmingham. The sometimes "florid" film is a "stinging denunciation of the Catholic Church," says New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanleybut "it's also a celebration of the family that survived the ordeal," especially Paul's parents, who "revered the church but loved their children more.

Sex Crimes of the Vatican It further claims that a secret Vatican document, "Crimen Sollicitationis," ordered bishops to enforce silence in sex abuse matters. Toledo firefighter Tony Comes began actively dealing with his adolescent sexual abuse after he and his young family moved into a house that, coincidentally, was five doors down from the home of his alleged abuser, former priest Dennis Gray.

But this Academy-Award-nominated film "is about scars, not about erasing them.

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