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DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Filmmaker Amy Berg has created a harrowing, heartbreaking, dramatically powerful documentary about Father Oliver O’Grady, described on the film’s Web site as “the most notorious pedophile in the history of the Catholic Church.” (Berg assures me personally that everything in the film is documented.)
This Irish-born priest ministered in the Diocese of Stockton, California, for over 20 years before he was finally arrested for rape, sodomy and child abuse. After serving seven years of a 14-year sentence, O’Grady returned to Ireland, where he is free to come and go.
Unbelievably, O’Grady cooperated freely with Berg, offering creepy and chilling testimony. His own words and filmed depositions of Church officials assert that O’Grady’s behavior was known and that little was done to prevent him from continuing his pernicious and devastating activities.
Father Thomas Doyle is a canon lawyer who has been working with victims of clergy sex abuse for many years. The film shows Doyle with a group of victims and their families attempting to deliver a letter to the Vatican about their pain. We share the pain of these good, faithful believers who, unknowingly, allowed a snake into their homes. The most difficult film I have ever watched.
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