I just took the time out to watch the documentary "Deliver us from Evil" at the request of a close friend in order to "see where I stood". First off, I hate the all-too-frequent plight of new media to scaldalise the church... or in fact to scaldalise anything they can get their hands on.
I'm not going to play some sort of defense here... because all the way up to those Bishops there was simply a cover up on a grand scale. A real detachment of the wards of the parishes those Bishops were ordained to protect, a real failure on so many levels.
I would say though that this is one case... sure there are others, but I guess I object to the way the documentary tries to make it out to be the common practice of the church. I'm not saying that it hasn't happened, or that it hasn't happened more than once, but there is a real jump from "has occurred in the past" to "commonplace". Also, I think the showing of O'Grady's interview at all was completely pointless; the guy is obviously out of his mind. I don't think he was out of his mind at the time, because he would perhaps not have passed as such a social person, but all the same this current testimony seems to be nothing more than the ramblings of a crazy person who truly believes that just by talking to his victims will allow him and them to move on.
The worst part of the documentary was seeing the abuse victims. There is just something so crushing, so abhorrent about the damage done to abuse victims that... I don't know... takes me far away from any type of religious thinking. Fill in the blanks here!
Anywho, must go, meeting early tomorrow. I'll get off my soap box now.
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