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The true story of the most notorious pedophile priest in the modern history of the Catholic church.System Requirements:Running Time: 101 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 031398210702 Manufacturer No: 21070

Amazon.com:
A devastating investigation into the pedophilia scandals tearing apart the Catholic Church, Deliver Us From Evil begins by looking into one priest, Father Oliver O'Grady, who agreed to be interviewed by journalist/filmmaker Amy Berg. O'Grady's genial calm is at first ingratiating, until he begins to describe his crimes with an unsettling sociopathic detachment. But O'Grady's blithe interview is only half of the story, as the documentary also unveils how church superiors covered up O'Grady's crimes and shuffled him from diocese to diocese in northern California, finally placing him in an unsupervised position of authority in a small town, where he sexually assaulted dozens of children; the video deposition of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney is a grotesque portrait in brittle denial. What makes Deliver Us From Evil crucial viewing, however, are the remarkable interviews with a few of the victims (now adults) and their parents, whose stories are wrenching and riveting. With the support of a priest seeking to reform the church, two of the victims actually go to the Pope, seeking some form of help in addressing O'Grady's crimes. This stunningly potent documentary combines raw feeling with lucid and persuasive discussions of the reasons for--and disturbing breadth of--this crisis within the Church. --Bret Fetzer

Rating : - excellent unbiased, thought provocating documentary
This documentary helped me understand why clergy and religious institutions are so harmful to the basic propositions of the religion. I now understand better why the prophet Muhammad has forbidden clergy in islam, and Quran gives examples of previous people creating rules not mandated by God. Moreover, in Quran, the muslim is taught to pray - declare insistently that "you only we worship and you only we ask", which relieves you from your bounds, bounds of mind, bounds of religious institutions and in this way forces you to be rational. Of course, today's islamic world is far from this way of understanding it, and that is why bacward. Overall, I find the documentary well prepaid, and thought provoking in that it makes people try to seek for truth about one's own being, GOD, conscience and purpose of life, deep inside somewhere.