Deliver Us From Evil
Filmmaker Amy Berg recounts a harrowing story of child abuse and how a serial child molester went free for the better part of two decades in this documentary. Oliver O'Grady was a Catholic priest who served in a number of parishes in Southern California during the 1970s and '80s.
O'Grady was also a habitual child molester who abused dozens of youngsters who were entrusted to his care, and while his superiors in the church were aware of O'Grady's crimes as early as 1973, they opted to simply move him from one congregation to another rather than turn him in to authorities or strip him of his ordination.
In Deliver Us From Evil, a number of O'Grady's victims and their families discuss his crimes and the repercussions they feel to this day. O'Grady himself also appears in the film, speaking candidly about his career as a sexual predator and recounting his misdeeds in detail. (After finally being convicted of child sexual abuse, O'Grady served time in prison and now lives in Ireland, where he is still looked after by Catholic clergy.)
Berg also offers a look into the history of the Catholic Church and how its leadership has often protected those within the hierarchy at the expense of their worshipers. Deliver Us From Evil was named Best Documentary Feature at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Found this on twomovies.com
Powerful documentary.
When at Catholic School in the 90s, a priest was given to our church by the infamous Cardinal Law (Our parish bishop at the time).
After spending just a few years here he was disrobed and kicked out
Word got around he became "too close" to one of the male middle school aged children.
He was kicked out because he already had 2 strikes against him for inappropriate behavior. He wasn't supposed to be around children alone... But he had been transferred to "another town with a school attached" Several Times by upper management
Saw him a year after that at a McDonalds. Fat Neck stubble, stains of food on his white shirt. Crusty.
Defrocked and disheveled. He deserves every moment of it.
But good on you for doing some part in exposing the "pedophile mafia" (I love that title as very fitting)
Satan not Saran
At this point why or how would you/anyone be a Catholic? Study its roots and research the straight up Saran worship they do and have been doing since the beginning of time, particularly in the Vatican. Read the bible and learn it send become a Jesus follower, not a confused and depressed person who cannot truly know God because you are partaking in a very confused and muddled satanic religion. God bless you and God help us all!
They can't hide their cup of vile, filthy & disgusting acts from their God - their sense of untouchability will prove to be their downfall.
But the worst thing about this is that their man-made doctrine teaches that you can't have forgiveness unless you 'go through' a priest & that this priest is God's representative on Earth. So while this priest is forcing his foul, evil will on your innocent body & confused & pained mind, you're left thinking that this is what God wants of you - because all the other 'Men of God' surrounding him either know about it but choose to protect him, or they do it too.
Who would blame any of these devastated victims for hating what they believe to be a God of such disgusting rules? And it has nothing to do with God at all - it's all man-made & man-committed.
This is what humans do to humans.
Hi - really want to watch this documentary but no way of getting it. Please advise on links. Thank you
Its a small minority of pederasts and Freemasons within the Roman Catholic Church pertaining to be Priests and even Cardinals and Bishops that are the cause of all of these problems. Research the goals of Freemasons in regards to the Catholic Church, dont blame Catholics or the Catholic Church itself as a whole for all the problems you hear, im sure none of you claim that all Muslims are terrorist lunatics due to a small minority who make the majority look bad. I dont see the same amount of vitriol being placed on members of our education systems who are many times more likely to abuse children in their care than Priests. Are Jews demonised in the same way when Rabbis are outed as pedophiles?
Fr Malachy Martin, ex Jesuit, long time member of the Priesthood and personal advisor to two Popes has written several books in which he states the problems resulting from powerful demonic forces who entered the Vatican, several Popes have been quoted for expressing their concern for the smoke of satan having entered the Vatican, some claim that this originally occurred during the inauguration of the second Vatican Council in 1962.
Yes, its easy for angry atheists and bigoted non Catholics to bash Catholicism when they are not aware of what the Catholic Church has been up against.
Why can't you watch the documentary here? I have tried several times and ended up going to another site to see it.
Most of the comments seem to be from the cult of media .... Catholic priests are human beings .... look at ciivilization over time and educate yourselves instead of being spoon fed. The majority of pedophiles aren't catholic priests, they are only a percentage of humans that are pedophiles, period, just like any other deviant subsect of society. Don't beleive everything you read and educate yourselves.
1Celter07 If your colleague was a rapist, would you be reponsible for being associated to him ? You aren't aware that only superiors would be aware of it, not colleagues because it's a sin to gossip aka callumny but right to inform authorities.... and then you'd only tell those in direct authority ...only those needing to know .... Those directly responsible for the acts, and those allowing it to go on and on, are guilty.
IMO all these other so called "good priests and nuns" are guilty by association. They are complicit in their silence. Why are they not standing up in revolt against their hierarchy in outrage, rather than allowing the cover up to go on as if it will all be sorted out by the hierarchy. Shame on you!
THis Oliver O'Grady was caught again Dublin and sentenced to three years for victims as young as two - Jan. 2012. Trial and execution is the only cure.
This was an awesome movie in that it shows just how far and wide the damage from a pedophile/rapist priest like O'Grady travels. My mother was a pedophile (I guess she missed her true calling in the catholic church) and I can attest firsthand that lives can be ruined by pedophiles. Every day I curse her a) for deciding to have children and b) for using me as her little sex diversion. I was even cheated of the pleasure of watching her die from cancer because all my repressed memories didn't come flooding back until I'd been sober for several year and then turned 30 yrs of age. The catholic church must be abolished post haste. It is a grotesque, evil, corrupt institution just like the grotesque, evil corrupt people who run it. It is beyond my ken to imagine people actually put money in the pockets of what is one of the world's largest, most well insulated pedophile cartels.
God gives men/woman free will do choose which action to take in this world. Men can decide to do harmful and evil things to others or show love, kindness and tolernace to others. Where ever you are in the world and as long as humans are involved there will always be some sort of corruption and evil which manages to worm its way in even in the church sadly.
RYK87 Your subtext suggest christianity isn't evil. What a joke. So you must use the bible as your chief moral guide source of know right from wrong O except when u talk about slavery Got that one completely wrong. Well it has the ten commandments right O ya the first 5 or authority designation could have been good spots for say pedofilia or at least Rape of women O ya women are second class according to christian teaching.. Well I tried seems christianity as a whole is somewhat lost best case scenario but more than likely its the chief source of hate if only abraham had killed his kid! damn god almost got it right! Have fun reveling in human sacrifice!(jesus)
What is corrupt is not the catholic religon but the catholic corporation. If you let out that more priests committed homosexual acts, pedophilic acts, adulterous acts then there goes it's money. The truth is pedophiles are everywhere and unfortunately when it comes to the church they want to look the other way as if it didn't happen.
I find it a very interesting concept that people living within a construct that follows celibacy possibly do not distinguish child molestation from other sexual acts- both can fall under sins of the flesh. At the same time, the distinction between homo- and hetero-sexual sexual 'activity', abuse rather, seemed relevant to the church in this docu. There seems to be no thought for the repercussions of the actions to individual child victims; what is important concerns the offender, and the degree to which his actions violate the widely accepted (for some reason!!!) interpretation of the scriptures. I have recently read some different editions of the Greek New Testament for linguistic research (without previous knowledge of the bible), and have seen nothing about celibacy. Where did it come from? It seems that this particular rule takes part in allowing priests to molest, inasmuch as it masks the severity of child abuse. Thus, the church is very convenient for pedophiles. Furthermore, sins OF THE OFFENDER can be forgiven, so are no repercussions to the offender, at least not psychological ones. If priests were allowed to have sex, the very significant distinction between child abuse and consenting sex could be understood by the church, and by priests. My immediate feeling after having watched this particular docu is that there would be far fewer priests in such a scenario... obviously I'm not making any reference to stats, which are in general untrustworthy.
@ Brad Wiggins Jacobs, you are right in saying the individual priests are responsible for their actions against the child. However, the Catholic Church hierarchy is guilty of seeing the sin and doing nothing to stop it. So according to the Bible, are they not also guilty because they did nothing to stop the sin set before them? They did not hold the guilty priest accountable. They did not protect the innocent, rather allowed him to continue to save face. Yes, there are many good priests, you are absolutely correct. Yet, how can the Catholic Church continue to be a beacon of light for us when the LEADERS refuse to set a standard of openness to conquer the sin inside the church? Yes, some of these things have been dealt with, but the Church has never come out, come clean and CONFESSED their sin of covering up and knowingly allowing children to be abused. Yet they expect us to confess our sins to them? That is hypocrisy. I totally disagree with you saying the church is not at fault and did not commit the crimes, they were the get away drivers, the ones who saw a "murder" occur, drove the offender to a new place to him him out. That, in my book, is guilt on a corporate level.
I can tell by all of your comments that none of you are Catholic. Well I am. And let me first start by saying, yes there are priests that do things like this and it's horrible and they have all been dealt with. But you can't blame the whole Catholic Church for what a few priests have done! Statistics show that more than 90 percent of Catholic priests today are completely innocent of these crimes and are loyal, hard working, faithful priests that just do their job day in day out. The Catholic Church will not take responsibility for these crimes as the Catholic Church is NOT responsible! It is the individual priests that are committing these crimes that ARE responsible! Furthermore, I support the Catholic Church during these times and urge every Catholic to stand up for their faith and support our church and our innocent priests.
Yeah that man should never been released....cant hide his smiles and caught again in ireland in posession of pictures????
What a terrible terrible thing to happen to all of those children, past and present. It is a disgrace that the Catholic Church will not take any irresponsiblity. As for O'grady is clearly not at all remorseful and I think that he has no real concept of how many peoples lives he has ruined. He seemed to have a look in his eyes that said 'I got away with it', what a vile excuse for a human being...
He talks so calm and relaxed like it was no big deal.
Robert, save us from your pathetic preaching. If your god was all knowing and all seeing as you claim him to be he wouldn't have made such a monumental screw up and allowed these evil religions to flourish throughout the whole " Jesus died for our sins" crap you people propagate. After all the evil that has been portrayed in this video plus everything else that has gone on in the world through religion for the last couple of thousand years you have the gall to keep preaching your nonsense here! You disgust me, take it somewhere else!
The tragic conclusions of the wee Japanese man from Lodi is so sad. There is a God, the gospel of Jesus Christ is true, there is hope for forgiveness for our sins through faith in Christ. Romanism has perverted the gospel and is not the true Christian church. May God deliver those caught up in its deception.
No surprise, Roman Catholicism is NOT historical Christianity.....sad how many are deluded about this. Read your Bible, it is not hard to see how far Romanism is from the Scriptures.