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Category: DVD
Actors: Thomas Doyle, Case Degroot, Frank Keating, Maria Jyono, Jane Degroot
Director: Amy Berg (ii)
Publisher: Lions Gate
Studio: Lions Gate
Brand: Lions Gate
Label: Lions Gate
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 103 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: LGED21070D
UPC: 031398210702
EAN: 0031398210702
ASIN: B000NIVJH2
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: October 13, 2006
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Description
The true story of the most notorious pedophile priest in the modern history of the Catholic church.
Amazon.com
A devastating investigation into the pedophilia scandals tearing apart the Catholic Church, Deliver Us From Evil begins by looking into one priest, Father Oliver O'Grady, who agreed to be interviewed by journalist/filmmaker Amy Berg. O'Grady's genial calm is at first ingratiating, until he begins to describe his crimes with an unsettling sociopathic detachment. But O'Grady's blithe interview is only half of the story, as the documentary also unveils how church superiors covered up O'Grady's crimes and shuffled him from diocese to diocese in northern California, finally placing him in an unsupervised position of authority in a small town, where he sexually assaulted dozens of children; the video deposition of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney is a grotesque portrait in brittle denial. What makes Deliver Us From Evil crucial viewing, however, are the remarkable interviews with a few of the victims (now adults) and their parents, whose stories are wrenching and riveting. With the support of a priest seeking to reform the church, two of the victims actually go to the Pope, seeking some form of help in addressing O'Grady's crimes. This stunningly potent documentary combines raw feeling with lucid and persuasive discussions of the reasons for--and disturbing breadth of--this crisis within the Church. --Bret Fetzer
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 Very Very Vey Bad October 12, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
This documentary is Very Bad. I was expecting a really good documentary and i couldn't even finished it because it is really boring.
 excellent unbiased, thought provocating documentary September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This documentary helped me understand why clergy and religious institutions are so harmful to the basic propositions of the religion. I now understand better why the prophet Muhammad has forbidden clergy in islam, and Quran gives examples of previous people creating rules not mandated by God. Moreover, in Quran, the muslim is taught to pray - declare insistently that "you only we worship and you only we ask", which relieves you from your bounds, bounds of mind, bounds of religious institutions and in this way forces you to be rational. Of course, today's islamic world is far from this way of understanding it, and that is why bacward. Overall, I find the documentary well prepaid, and thought provoking in that it makes people try to seek for truth about one's own being, GOD, conscience and purpose of life, deep inside somewhere.
Deliver Us From Evil- Review August 29, 2008
This film was worth watching if only for the deposition of Roger Mahoney (Cardinal Mahony). The video of Mahoney's testimony was especially disturbing, showing great evasiveness and dishonesty. I could easily see why a jury found for the victims of sex abuse in the related civil suit.
Raised Catholic, I did not take offense at the subject matter. I did not find it to be an attack on the Church. The truth may be unpleasant, but it has to be faced. This was an honest look at a serious problem. Hopefully, this film will raise awareness.
God is Justice July 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To the SURVIVORs: I admire your courage so much. How to have faith in the wake of such devastation challenges all of us. I know survivors of this abuse and evil, and have had a very hard time understanding faith, hope, and love, despite the horrors of this world. At least the Church does not equal God, although it represents itself that way. I wish you all hope and healing, that you will continue to find ways and paths to joy that the Church does not impede.
Moral relativism is dangerous and simplistic, yet the Church placed known pedophiles, such as Father Oliver O'Grady, in positions of power. The Church has been criminally complacent in the abuse scandals, blaming: the Victims, the Media, the Devil, the Enlightenment, Communism, and Atheism, among a plethora of other scapegoats. This polarity of displacement is merely convenient, it disrupts values of moral fortitude and personal responsibility. In a world where the moral compass can be easily lost, this violation represents a terrible loss of moral credibility of the Church. There is a lack of coherent and cohesive acknowledgment that the Church enabled these priests, which is a failure to clearly address the spiritual abuse of the sex scandals. This ripples out in harmful influence, effecting all members of the Church, as well as those outside of it.
Dissenters and critics are not just casting stones here, unless it's millstones, as Jesus did in Matthew 18:5-6, "...and if whoever receives one such child in my name receives me. But if anyone causes the downfall of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea."
Priests and bishops enjoy special authority within the body of the Church, i.e., the parishioners, as trusted representatives of Jesus. Therefore, these crimes violate Jesus. I know survivors who have been asked to forgive priests as if these men were simply civilians. To tritely throw the issue of forgiveness around is to be a collaborator, an enabler. Justice belongs to God, not just forgiveness; anything less is the very moral relativism and equivocation the Pope bewails. Forgiveness without judgment is like having the moral certainty of a sieve.
Some religious, like Father Groeschel, continue to complain that the media perpetuates an anti-clerical perspective that victimizes priests. Father John Corapi has the narcissistic temerity to publically state that aside from the children, he is the greatest victim in the abuse scandals, because he sacrificed a lucrative career to become a priest. Thankfully, there are investigative venues outside the Church for reporting crimes. Any error on the side of excess by the media, and subsequent lack of status of priests, is nothing compared to the life-long struggle and suffering of numerous victims. Unbelievable how organized the Church is in demonstrating on other issues, but not its abuse scandals around the world. I've heard testimonies of child abuse that would horrify anyone. Law enforcement, social workers, and critics of the Church do the work of angels. The Church cannot equate the sins of its priests with the sins of its parishioners, yet it does. This is an enormous, monstrous moral equivocation, almost unbelievable. Not enough faith is placed in God's wrath, as well as love.
it will open your eyes June 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
this is a must see movie for catholic and non-catholic. go ahead watch this film for those who have not seen this movie it will open your eyes. I feel sorry for all the victims and my prayers for them that they will have peace in life and healing and love and strenght.
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