It is visibly apparent that an immoral culture of homosexual and heterosexual child molesters has infested the catholic clergy. worldwide.  Thanks for making it so evident.

I am wondering whether the child molesting Priests of the middle ages were the perpetrators behind the “blood libel” myth. This myth began in England around the year 1144, when the disappearances of Christian children were deliberately blamed on the Jewish community. As a result, entire Jewish communities were unmercifully tortured and murdered. Yet, Antisemitism continued to spread as Christian children continued to disappear long after the Jewish communities had been eradicated. It would be a responsible act of the Catholic Church to help end Antisemitism by:
1. dispelling the blood libel myth (Jewish people did not
steal Christian Children, and Jewish Law forbids Jewish
people from consuming blood)
2. admitting that child-molesting Catholic Clergy were the
criminal culprits of the blood libel myth.
3. admitting that the Jewish people, as well as Catholic
Children and their families, are victims of the Catholic
Clergies’ crimes.

I’ve wanted to see this film for a long time. It’s extremely well done. It’s sad that it’s the truth. It’s sad such a story needs to be told! As a victim of priest abuse, and, abuse by nuns attending K-6 grades in Chicago at catholic school, one can only wonder why the church does not see that “Crime does not pay.” The crimes of the clergy never pay enough for the lives they’ve ruined in victims. The church could perhaps use that money for good. It never has money “for good,” but always finds it for the “bad.” Now, with two billion dollars paid out by the church in America alone, why don’t they see that protecting guilty clergy is just NOT in their interest, financially or morally? And, not only did they create victims, but, they lost many men who would have been splendid priests to the abuse. It’s truly a tragedy. Camus and Sophocles would have a field day with these absurd tragedies and how the church goes back, since the early church 2000 years ago, to helping the abuser and NOT the victims. Shame on the church! Thanks for creating this movie to show THE truth of abuse, be it sexual, emotional, physical!

Stumbled on by accident. and as a Catholic, found it to be very eye-opening.

I’ve wanted to see this film for a long time. It’s extremely well done. It’s sad that it’s the truth. It’s sad such a story needs to be told! As a victim of priest abuse, and, abuse by nuns attending K-6 grades in Chicago at catholic school, one can only wonder why the church does not see that “Crime does not pay.” The crimes of the clergy never pay enough for the lives they’ve ruined in victims. The church could perhaps use that money for good. It never has money “for good,” but always finds it for the “bad.” Now, with two billion dollars paid out by the church in America alone, why don’t they see that protecting guilty clergy is just NOT in their interest, financially or morally? And, not only did they create victims, but, they lost many men who would have been splendid priests to the abuse. It’s truly a tragedy. Camus and Sophocles would have a field day with these absurd tragedies and how the church goes back, since the early church 2000 years ago, to helping the abuser and NOT the victims. Shame on the church! Thanks for creating this movie to show THE truth of abuse, be it sexual, emotional, physical!

As a woman who was sexually assaulted by a priest as an adult, this documentary shed some much needed light on the situation for me. I am sorry to say that I thought the problem was “somewhere else” and it was nothing I needed to be all that concerned about. What I’ve found, is that the Church is all into covering everything up, regardless of whether it’s a child or an adult.  In my case, the priest has not even been removed from his duties while their “supposed” investigation (I haven’t heard from them in months) is going on, all while he has access to teenage students, the infirmed at the local hospital, and is still allowed to celebrate Mass! It makes me sick to think that he is consecrating hosts when his hands have been places they shouldn’t have been.
I have a friend who owns sveral dance schools, and I asked her what she would do if she had a teacher who sexually molested a child...would she just move that teacher to another one of her schools? It’s ludicrous, of course. She agreed that she would be culpable also, just like a bishop should be when an abuse is reported and substantiated and all they do is re-assign the priests somewhere else.
For those of you who are reading this and are Catholic, do you realize that whenever something like this happens, you are also abused? It is YOUR faith and religion, and yes, even sometimes, YOUR money that’s at stake. I, for one, have to speak up, because someday, I will meet God face-to-face, and if somebody else’s life is messed up because I didn’t say anything, I will be culpable then, too. I thank God for the people who have gone before me and are trying to make MY Church better. Do YOU really want to be a part of it otherwise?

$70,000 is not enough for ruining my life.

The Church has had a history of forgiveness and reassignment. Airing the problem has led to a dramatic change in policy, and Catholic Priest who are convicted of any sexual activity, whether among consenting adults or not. Celibacy is a vow - it is not a law punishable by fines or jail when broken. Pedophilia is a crime, punishable by jail whether commited by priests or anyone else.

The news story is that the Church tried to “make the problem go away” when It should have assisted in prosecution of the priests.

There are no solid figures for the percentage of pedophile priests, however the figures we do have from reported stories put the range at 2%-4% - which is the same as any average population. At that range, there is no significant relationship between celibacy and pedohilia.

According to Catholic doctrine, any sexual activity outside a sanctified marriage, and any sexual activity that in not open to the possible transmission of human life is a sin.

Good thing there is the sacrament of Reconciliation, because that includes heterosexual sex between consenting adults who are not married, affairs, masturbation, and all other forms of genital manipulation outside of sexual intercource between a husband and wife....without birth control.

I don’t think priests are getting off lightly from this crime any longer. In fact, I think the laser-beam focus on the Catholic Church makes priests more likely to be caught and prosecuted now, than perhaps other non-clergy members of society that engage in pedophilia. That is just my subjective opinion.

Human beings are subject to a myriad of temptations, not all of which are good. We all have an inclination toward immoral behavior, and some exercise that behavior more than others. We lie, cheat, steal, and kill.

The great news is that God gave us a path to salvation in spite of our proclivity to sin. He had His Son accept payment on the Cross.

Everyone has an opportunity to walk this path, even Priests. The decision is ours to make. God gave us smarts (intellect) and will (free). How we choose is up to us.

As for forgiveness the Church offered her Priests - that comes directly from scripture. Peter asked Jesus “How many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me?”

Jesus says “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy times seven”

That’s a lot of fogiving!

I WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ALL OF MY SCHOOL LIFE IN NEWARK, NJ AND NEVER ONCE DID I SEE ANY PRIEST BE ANYTHING BUT REVERAND.
THE CLERGY WHERE ALL GOOSD AND CAREING AND HAD A WONDERFUL LOVE OF GOD.
HERE WE GO AGAIN… AOL/TIME WARNER PICKING AT A SMALL SORE ON THE BODY OF CHRISTIANITY BECAUSE THEY CAN
YOU SEE IF YOUNG PEOPLE DESERT THEIR CHRISTIAN BELIEF THEY EMBRACE LIBERAL AND ANARCHIST WAYS.
SUCH A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF OUR WONDERFUL PRIESTS ARE GUILTY.
I SUGGEST THE UNGODLY AOL/TIME WARNER TEAM LOOK ELSEWHERE BECAUSE THIS ISSUE IS OLD AND DONE.

Why does this film choose to focus on the very small percentage of homosexual abuse done by the clergy? This is WAYYYYY too slanted a perspective. It makes the filmmaker’s bias all too clear and prevents the film from actually confronting the issue! The majority if all sexual abuse - in the American Culture and in the Church - is heterosexual.

Unfortunately the involved priests tend to get off with their crimes rather lightly, if they get punished at all, especially seeing the settlements that the church arranges. As mentioned in the documentary, the ‘average man’ gets to do twenty years in prison for similar acts.

Of course, it isn’t confined to the US either…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8382042.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/4733272/Indian-nun-claims-sex-is-rife-within-Catholic-Church.html

Unfortunately the involved priests tend to get off with their crimes rather lightly, if they get punished at all, seeing the settlements that the church arranges. Of course, it isn’t confined to the US either…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8382042.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/4733272/Indian-nun-claims-sex-is-rife-within-Catholic-Church.html

every one of the “abused” became millionaires over it
so who is modelesting who?

Posted 07/19/09 by Kell Brigan
SO, WHERE’S THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PROTESTANTS???

your a cathlick

dumb ### dont try to fool any one and dont worship plastic idols foolyou

Interesting documentary, but the intrusion of so many adverts was distracting - I shant view on this site again!

Thank you Fr.Tom Doyle and Fr.Bambrick for your courage, strength, and compassion. For centuries, I am certain, many priest have been praying for this moment.

SO, WHERE’S THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PROTESTANTS???

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p01s01-ussc.html
Sex abuse spans spectrum of churches
By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant, and most of the alleged abusers are not clergy or staff, but church volunteers.

These are findings from national surveys by Christian Ministry Resources (CMR), a tax and legal-advice publisher serving more than 75,000 congregations and 1,000 denominational agencies nationwide.

CMR’s annual surveys of about 1,000 churches nationwide have asked about sexual abuse since 1993. They’re a remarkable window on a problem that lurked largely in the shadows of public awareness until the Catholic scandals arose.

The surveys suggest that over the past decade, the pace of child-abuse allegations against American churches has averaged 70 a week. The surveys registered a slight downward trend in reported abuse starting in 1997, possibly a result of the introduction of preventive measures by churches.

“I think the CMR numbers are striking, yet quite reasonable,” says Anson Shupe, an Indiana University professor who’s written books about church abuse. “To me it says Protestants are less reluctant to come forward because they don’t put their clergy on as high a pedestal as Catholics do with their priests.”

At least 70 incidents a week

Dr. Shupe suggests the 70 allegations-per-week figure actually could be higher, because underreporting is common. He discovered this in 1998 while going door to door in Dallas-Ft. Worth communities where he asked 1,607 families if they’d experienced abuse from those within their church. Nearly 4 percent said they had been victims of sexual abuse by clergy. Child sexual abuse was part of that, but not broken out, he says.

James Cobble, executive director of CMR, who oversees the survey, says the data show that child sex-abuse happens broadly across all denominations…

As a Catholic and a family therapist, I needed to watch this film.  I need to know what my church is doing and not doing about this threat to children and their souls.  What a great documentary!  We are indebted to the couragous people who refuse to be quiet about the arrogance of power still existing in the Church among bishops, the denial in their thinking, in some cases.  But we can be grateful to God, at the same time, that truth and love are not silenced.

I think it’s outrageous that Father Bambrick was put on (church) trial for the “crime” of speaking the truth.  It makes me wonder what Jesus would say about all this, if he lived in this day and age.

“The arrogance of power within the Church.” How true.  I don’t believe that priests are any closer to “god,” dare I say if there is one, than any of the rest of us.

The sadness in the the story is the truth

Gut wrenching doc by Mary Healey Jamiel about child abuse in the Catholic Church. So disgusting it made me furious. The church, in all it’s “wisdom” has chosen to cover up rather than take steps to remedy this pervasive disease within. A sickening example of the church at its very worst.