{"id":5247,"date":"2006-10-17T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/deliver-us-from-evil.html"},"modified":"2006-10-17T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T11:01:07","slug":"deliver-us-from-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/deliver-us-from-evil.html","title":{"rendered":"Deliver us from Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Allen’s review of the doc:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, back at diocesan headquarters, everyone, and (apparently) especially Mahony, seemed to be in thrall to the popular 1970s notion that psychotherapy had replaced old-fashioned notions of crime and punishment, and that talking to a "counselor" could actually cure people of pedophilia. They also seemed to believe that the best way to deal with a predator-priest was to keep mum–maybe no one would find out. Some of the most fascinating footage in Berg’s film is that of Mahony writhing and squirming while a lawyer in a civil suit (the San Andreas victim’s family won a $30 million judgment against the diocese of Stockton) reads aloud a smarmy letter from O’Grady to his bishop thanking him profusely for his latest parish transfer. Other footage of the embittered victims, now adults whose lives have been ruined, is intensely affecting, and interviews with the Jyonos, now frail, weeping oldsters who have lost everything, including their faith in God, are almost unbearable to watch.<\/p>\n

Had Berg stuck to this quadrangle of O’Grady, Mahony, the victims, and their parents, she would have had a riveting film. Instead, she decides to turn it all into a generalized anti-Catholic screed. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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