Deliver Us From Evil

Exceptionally well made & presented film by Amy Berg. A major triumph was in persuading paedophile Father Olly O'Grady to cooperate so thoroughly. O'Grady seems glad of the opportunity to exhibit his obvious charm, and it's this that helps make the narrative so compelling. The bonus feature of O'Grady simulating his approach to a potential child (girl) victim is chilling.

Candid interviews with the victim's families demonstrate the human cost as they are shown still trying to come to terms with these violations 30 years on.

With clergy actively taking steps to conceal such abuses (100,000 are claimed) the relentless denial of the Catholic church reaches all the way to the top, when the petitioning victims (now adult) are turned away by the Vatican guards & denied an audience with the Pope. President Bush is claimed to have granted Ratzinger immunity from prosecution at the Popes own request over these matters.