HBO Doc detail abuse of deaf boys by catholic church

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[BisonMav]

You are a nice fella or gal, whichever.

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[D1B]

Mea Culpa Maxima wins People Choice Award at Milwaukee Film Festival.

The Milwaukee Film festival is proud to announce the 2012 Allan H. (Bud) and Suzanne L. Selig Audience Award Winners:

Best Feature Film: Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (dir. Alex Gibney)

The festival hosted the U.S. Premiere of Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney’s newest documentary, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God, with Gibney and several subjects of the film in attendance. Centering on four courageous students at St. John’s School for the Deaf in St. Francis, WI, the film exposes the clerical sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and a cover-up that leads all the way to the highest offices of the Vatican. The HBO Documentary Films production Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God received this year’s coveted Allan H. (Bud) and Suzanne L. Selig Audience Award for Best Feature Film. Past recipients of this MFF award include Waiting for “Superman” and Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire.

Hope this gets an Oscar Nom.

[D1B]

Mea Maxima Culpa to debut at London Film Festival and Ireland soon.

LFF Review

Broadening its earlier narrow focus, Silence in the House of God includes talking heads from figures such as canon lawyer Thomas Doyle and Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk who weighs in with the opinion that clericalism enables the sort of illegality that police call “noble cause corruption”: that the broad social assumption that the priesthood is morally pure and immune from criminal activity accommodates a culture that “selects, protects, cultivates, defends and produces” sex offenders. We learn of how certain, older students were made dorm masters in order to groom younger pupils in a systematic regime of child abuse. One key witness tells us bluntly that he was at one point one of Murphy’s favourites; “he enjoyed watching me ejaculate”. It’s heartbreaking to watch these men recall their confusion as adolescents, to be molested and violated by the one figure of authority from whom they had sought approbation and in whom had placed their trust.

Gibney wants to (and does) open his attack to the Church, bringing into question the validity of claims that the Vatican is even a state; rather, as one witness suggests, its statehood is the outcome of “historical anomaly” – having had it granted by Mussolini’s fascist regime in return for a political compliance. Its so-called laws, romanticised as an omertà, are, in short, nothing more than a cover-up carried out in bad faith. The Church is painted as a vast, unthinkably wealthy conspiracy whose public claims to self-investigate and –correct are means merely of keeping up appearances. Appointments of clergymen to carry out such internal investigations are, an interviewee claims, intended simply to “snuff out scandal… that’s the worldwide policy”. As the film has it, there is a systematic coercion and deception in the Vatican’s attempts to negate any sense of ‘self’ in its victims. Keeping everything in-house denies an audience; without the latter, a victim’s identity is negated, hence their tendency to blame themselves. Gibney’s documentary redresses this gross injustice in a gutsy and legitimately incendiary manner.

Perfect Joltinian nightmare of a cult.

[D1B]

Looks like Mea Maxima Culpa will be released in Italy!!!

EXCLUSIVE: Italian distributor Feltrinelli takes aim with LFF-winning documentary about paedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church and plans live debates with clergy.

When Italian national newspaper La Repubblica reviewed Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Alex Gibney’s LFF-winning documentary about paedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church, the paper’s critic wrote: “It is difficult to imagine the film will find a theatrical distributor in Italy, and it is even less likely to find one for TV.”

Step forward Italian outfit Feltrinelli, which has taken the bold step of picking up all Italian rights from sales outfit Content Media. The film is believed to be the first on the subject to get a theatrical release in the country.

[D1B]

Looks like the massive catholic priest child molestation scandal - Boston will hit the screens near you.

Movie/Docudrama will chronicle the team of brave journalists who uncovered 1500 years of child abuse in the catholic church.

The movie follows the work of the Spotlight Team, consisting of reporters Michael Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Matt Carroll. The movie also looks at the work of editor Walter Robinson, project editor Ben Bradlee Jr, and Globe Editor Marty Baron. The producers have secured life rights of the mentioned Globe reporters.

When Baron was starting out as Globe Editor, he saw a story in the Globe about a Boston priest who had molested children and he had a hunch that there was more to story. He sent a group of reporters to interview scores of victims and pore over thousands of documents. The work took over a year.

But the effort was worth it. The Globe team discovered that Cardinal Bernard Law had hidden abusive priests for years by moving them to different parishes. The team won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for meritorious public service. Their stories also ignited a wave of similar allegations around the world. Law resigned from his Vatican post in 2011.

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[JoltinJoe]

1500 years of child abuse in the catholic church.

[JoltinJoe]

Looks like the massive catholic priest child molestation scandal - Boston will hit the screens near you.

Movie/Docudrama will chronicle the team of brave journalists who uncovered 1500 years of child abuse in the catholic church.

I wonder if they'll tell the part of the story about the reporters created such a witch-hunt that one of the priests they targeted was convicted based entirely on repressed memory -- which never would have been allowed but for the frenzy caused by the reporters?

On September 10, 2009 the Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments in the case. Prior to the hearing, nearly 100 very prominent scientists, psychiatrists and psychologists from throughout the United States and eight countries signed a friend of the court brief telling the Court that "repressed memory" has never been demonstrated to exist and should not have been admitted as evidence

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[JoltinJoe]

Hope this gets an Oscar Nom.

Biggest thing since Religulous!

[D1B]

Hope this gets an Oscar Nom.

Biggest thing since Religulous!

Did you see it yet? It's full of dopes like you.