I’m a Catholic. Not a great one, as all the dead animals I’ve eaten on Fridays during Lent will attest to. But I’m still a Catholic. I was baptized, catechized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. I attended college at a school with one of the largest seminaries in the U.S., so I’ve been exposed to a lot of priests, monks, nuns and other church dignitaries.
And never been molested, sexually touched or even had any sexual innuendo thrown my way by one of them.
If I’m to believe Deliver Us From Evil, the 2006 Academy Award nominated documentary by Amy Berg, I’m one of the lucky ones. Deliver Us From Evil tells the tale of Oliver O’Grady, a Catholic priest who methodically molested dozens of children in California from the early 1970s until he was jailed in the 90s.
O’Grady is obviously a pyschopathic pedophile. That’s not particularly scary as pedophiles come in all shapes and sizes and perform all types of occupations. What is scary is the manner in which the church moved O’Grady from parish to parish once people began to accuse him of molestation. A church that presents itself as the organizational embodiment of Jesus’ message did all they could to keep a pedophile wearing the robes, knowing full well what he had done and what he was capable of doing. Why? They didn’t want the bad PR.
And, as the movie relates, the coverup reaches to the highest reaches of the church. That’s right, Pope Benedict the XVI is accused of participating in the coverup, a charge that cannot be prosecuted because of the immunity granted to him by President Bush.
But it gets worse. In O’Grady’s case, he was ready to testify at his court hearing and possibly admit his crimes and acknowledge the church’s complicity. The night before his testimony, the church’s high-paid lawyers arrived and the next day O’Grady decided not the testify. Why? The church didn’t offer to do us all a favor and off O’Grady if he testified. Instead, they offered him a pension that would keep him comfortable for the rest of his days if he didn’t implicate them.
But Deliver Us From Evil does more than highlight O’Grady and the church’s criminal acts. It interviews O’Grady’s victims, including a family that thought O’Grady was their friend, who defended him when allegations of misconduct first arose. They found out later that their daughter was a victim. The father has renounced Catholicism and won’t step foot in a church.
If Jesus hadn’t risen from the dead, he’d be rolling in his grave.
Verdict: 91 out of 100
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