Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.
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Look I'm really not into Documentaries but when I decide to see some they must be good and attractive that catches my attention. So about this film, this documentary is about a priest Oliver O'Grady who is a pedophile and pervert, he had a reoccurring part in this documentary shows his views that what kind of a pervert he is which is really shocking also there are interview of other victims of child molestation and their families telling how they were betrayed by the person and the organization which they trusted the most. The way I see it people like O'Grady can be found in every religion disguise themselves in sheep's clothing but are actually wolves, but the worst part are the organizations that letting these wolves in our society and hurting our children if the Catholic church had taken a suitable action there could be a very different story.So about the recommendation, viewers may find it quite disturbing cause its on a very dark subject that people don't like to talk about, so yeah you can give it a try if you are willing to and if you like documentaries.
In a terrible way, that monster Oliver O'Grady has rendered a service to the human race. He and others like him have set off deafening alarm bells. He illustrates the moral insanity of someone in a position of trust who is governed by his hormones and not his religious precepts. O'Grady has called into question not only the "infallibility" of the church hierarchy all the way to the top, but has left the seeds of profound doubt as to the power of prayer to protect the vulnerable from evil. People who attack the Catholic Church from the outside usually only succeed in stiffening the resolve of its followers to continue with renewed faith. It's the hypocrites and dogmatists within the church who inflict the mortal damage that may eventually consign it to the scrap book of history. Any religion or spiritual institution worthy of preservation must contain its own safety mechanism built within its very precepts. I recall, following a recent sex scandal in the media, a televised town hall meeting in which a conceited and arrogant Catholic lobbyist harangued the audience (mostly Catholics) with her usual spiel, "no salvation outside the church", "sexual abuse is far more prevalent outside of the church", "no place for women in the priesthood", etc, etc. When asked what was the problem the church had with women priests she smugly retorted: "according to the bible, how many women disciples did Christ have?". I felt like responding "best evidence suggests Jesus died on the cross before he was 30 and his disciples were also in their 20's, how come the median age of a new pope in recent times is 63 years?" - but I abstained from commenting. As the audience became increasingly restive and annoyed by her delivery, I became increasingly content; "keep up the good work ma'am, you're message is accelerating the church's eventual demise; a reformed Catholic Church might have struggled on for another 1000 years.
Sexual abuse in the clergy scandals are nothing new. In fact, American Roman Catholic priests are now seen as suspicious, untrustworthy, and vilified as possible child molesters. Not all priests are child molesters or pedophiles. But sadly, the Roman Catholic Church has lost trust among it's own parishioners and followers. The sexual abuse scandal has rocked the Church foundation to the core of it's being. In this documentary, the defrocked priest Father Oliver "Ollie" Grady was an Irish immigrant to the United States. In Northern California, he served in parishes in Lodi, Turlock, Stockton, and San Andreas where he committed sexual abuse crimes against the children of those parishes. I don't know who I'm more disgusted with--him or the hierarchy who shuffled him around without getting him the assistance. Unlike some molesters, Ollie is quite frank and candid about his crimes but truly unaware of the destruction that has caused his victims. Unlike the obvious monsters, Father Ollie comes across as the guy next door. You wouldn't think he was such a monster. There is more to the story even his own personal history which might shed light on his crimes. I wished that they discussed it more in the documentary to help understand the monster within.
As a former Catholic who has since become a staunch atheist, I watched Amy Berg's chilling documentary, 'Deliver Us From Evil' with simmering anger and rage--not just at the hideous corruption of a cynical Church hierarchy but at the smugness and utter lack of remorse exhibited by the former "Father" Oliver O'Grady, a true and very dangerous psychopath. And to think that his heinous crimes have been repeated by hundreds of his depraved brethren of the cloth over many decades--and similarly covered up with the usual catastrophic results. If 'Deliver Us From Evil' doesn't put you off from Catholicism and organized religion in general, nothing will.