07.25.07
Deliver Us From Evil
Wow. This is some fucked up shit. Deliver Us From Evil is a documentary about this one particular Catholic priest in California named Oliver O’Grady who molested tons of kids and how the church covered it up and basically let him keep doing it because the head honcho in California wanted to be a cardinal. There are some really heartbreaking interviews with the survivors and their families. In one particularly devastating scene, the father of a girl who was molested - raped, actually - says that she never told him what was going on because she knew he would kill the guy and go to jail. Oh. My. God. Also, did you know that Pope Benedict XVI, when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, was actually in charge of making sure shit like this didn’t happen beginning in 1978. Um, yeah, he didn’t really do a great job. Apparently over 100,000 victims of clergy abuse have come forward in recent years - and that’s just in the U.S. Why the fuck is he the pope? Anyway, this is a seriously interesting & well made (a tiny bit heavy handed at parts, but, I can’t really blame them) documentary about a totally fucked up situation.