Documentary details abuse of deaf boys in Catholic boarding school

[hue]

http://www.jsonline.com/features/religion/documentary-details-abuse-of-deaf-boys-in-catholic-boarding-school-a772mf3-172389121.html

It is a story almost too horrible to comprehend.

Deaf boys sent by their parents to a Catholic boarding school in Wisconsin, where they were molested again and again by a popular priest who stalked them in their dorm rooms at night, on trips to his North Woods cabin, even in the confessional.

Dismissed as "mentally retarded," they were often not believed, or worse ignored, for years by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, police, prosecutors and the media.

Gary Smith and Arthur Budzinski are among the victims of the late Father Lawrence Murphy who have worked for decades to make their voices heard. Their heartbreaking accounts have since been told on the pages of the Journal Sentinel and The New York Times.

Now they'll reach a new and potentially wider audience with the release of an HBO documentary by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney.

"Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God," which makes its U.S. debut at the Milwaukee Film Festival on Friday, traces the church's global sex abuse crisis, and the Murphy case in particular, to the highest reaches of the Vatican.

[Raster]

1. Remember, it was just one little prayer...

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"The film features other voices familiar in Milwaukee, including a contrite retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland; Peter Isely of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests who helped to make the story public in 2006; and Minnesota attorney Jeffrey Anderson who represents 350 victims, including those of Murphy, in the archdiocese's bankruptcy.

It also touches on the bankruptcy and accusations that then Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan, now cardinal of New York, transferred millions in church funds to keep it from victims.

Dolan has vehemently denied the allegations. But efforts to interview him were unsuccessful..."

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[ailsagirl]

2. Just...unbelievable

[Archae]

3. And these assholes want to dictate how WE should live?

Including who we can marry or not?

I would say "fuck them" but they would enjoy that too much.

Hurt them how it counts, continue the lawsuits!

[hue]

4. The Milwaukee Archdiocese's response...

http://www.cbs58.com/news/local-news/Church-Documentary-Opening-Old-Wounds-172916251.html

[Stuart G]

5. K and R nt. thanks for posting