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It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

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.

Extraordinarily disturbing and affecting examination of the case of a Catholic priest who sexually abused numerous children, and the fact the Church knew, and did nothing about it. The film expands to examine the larger issue of the Church's constantly covering-up abuse by priests on a huge scale. Masterfully directed, this hits home emotionally, as victims and their parents tell their stories, while at the same time we get to know the perpetrator – who is clearly disconnected from reality and mentally ill (he does not deny the abuse, but seems to grossly misunderstand its seriousness), making those above him who covered his activities seem in many ways more culpable and hateful than this clearly disturbed individual - not that he gets off lightly. At the same time, it's not a purely emotional exercise, with some fascinating experts, especially one priest who is an expert in Church history and law examining how and why things have devolved to this awful state of affairs, where the Church seems to be consciously putting its own image ahead of the safety of children. Not an easy film to watch, but a deeply powerful, angering and upsetting one.

This is mighty strong documentary on the abuse of children by the Catholic Church and its cover-up. I read elsewhere that the term "abuse" is a euphemism for much more sordid acts; namely the physical rape of an innocent child.This film examines the history of one pedophile priest in the United States and how his acts were simply covered-up by the Catholic hierarchy. He performed innumerable acts on both male and female children. Even though some parents reported this to the Catholic ministry, it was only when police officials became involved that he was arrested. There are many interviews with both the victims and those in the Church hierarchy who covered it up, as well as the pedophile himself.So are we provided with many different angles. The documentary never becomes accusatory in itself – but it allows us to view the heart-wrenching lives of the victims and their families. They try to extract an apology from the Vatican, but this is all in vain.It even brings us to view the life of this eerie pedophile, not presented as evil incarnate; but as a human being with a severe psychological problem. At times you can feel his ingratiating performance even as he acknowledges the severity of what he has done. This is a rare film that deals with both oppressor and oppressed.The film is about several things: the nature of the evil that exists in this pedophile, the corruption of the Catholic Church, the Church's refusal to deal with sexual issues and admit its crimes against humanity, but most of all it is about the torment of the victims who are left alone with their families to struggle on with their lives. This documentary contains some very emotional scenes and is very well made.

Woe to anyone who dares to lead a little one astray especially if you are supposed to represent God to that smaller-framed adult-in-progress! It would be better that a big rock (like an island, for example) be securely fastened to your feeble and frail little neck before your next swimming lesson than to sit before the Supreme Judges on High with those kinds of crimes against kids being exposed to the judicial illumination of an administrative system of universal law and order that is no respecter of persons (treats everyone with an equal degree of fairness and justice regardless of what title one may have had applied to them during their earthly sojourn). I once heard mercy defined as applied love but I would speculate that such an application would only be applicable if sincere repentance is detected and I would never presume to be capable of evaluating that kind of thing in another person regardless of how angry and upset I felt watching this film. I will admit that this movie was extremely difficult to watch all the way through to the end (but I did anyway) since unlike a lot of movies that provide a temporary escape from reality, this in-your-face presentation mercilessly thrusts you right smack dab in the middle of a part of reality that almost sounds unbelievable at first...until you witness firsthand the tear-stained faces of the victims and their families who have been permanently scarred by the painfully tragic circumstances of their youth involving priests who took advantage of their priestly positions of authority and traded their souls (the souls of the iniquity-embracing priests) for a few fleeting moments of forgettable nothingness.