Irish feature documentary on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church shortlisted for an Oscar

Mortimer, I grow weary of your misrepresentations. WHERE is the "bogus" in Goodman's 2010 article, as follows, about the case of Wisconsin priest Lawrence C. Murphy? "But it is only one of thousands of cases forwarded over decades by bishops to the Vatican office called the CDF, led from 1981 to 2005 by Cardinal Ratzinger. It is still the office that decides whether accused priests should be given full canonical trials and defrocked. In 1996, Card. Ratzinger failed to respond to two letters about the case from ... Milwaukee’s archbishop at the time. After eight months, the second in command at the doctrinal office, Card. Tarcisio Bertone, now the Vatican’s secretary of state, instructed the Wisconsin bishops to begin a secret canonical trial that could lead to Father Murphy’s dismissal. But Cardinal Bertone halted the process after Father Murphy personally wrote to Card. Ratzinger protesting that he should not be put on trial because he had already repented and was in poor health and that the case was beyond the church’s own statute of limitations." Specifically, Mortimer, what in this excerpt is "bogus"?

Not believing "they are able to change" has become the insurmountable problem. To deal with the scandals, the RC Church needed a thorough structural reform, returning to Christian foundations, the essentials of Christ's teaching. They needed to cast aside all inessentials like their bishops' misguided efforts to control the politics of sexual orientation and gender roles, contraception, marriage as social institution, exclusion of women from liturgy both in language and participation, abortion, and progress in medical science. As long as the pope and the CDF see political activity and power, control through censorship and media manipulation as the paths to defending their institution, it will flounder and decay in its medieval structures, the odd fossil preserved but no longer recognizable because creatures of its kind are now extinct.

What an incredibly powerful and accurate film! A must see for all, it clearly shows how powerful institutions will do all possible to protect their own self interests over those sexually abused by clergy. I have no doubt Bill Donahue and Pierre what's his name from the media report are doing cartwheels they must be so upset, how are they going to spin this one. This truth is coming from several survivors first hand, their stories are compelling and powerful and the actual footage from years ago shows this documentary is accurate. It is high time the actions and omissions of the Catholic leadership at the highest echelons of our church be exposed to the light of day. I do not believe any longer they are able to change.

I will post this video parts of it on my website. It will further cause the destruction of the church of molestation the church of hitler and the church of Mengele, Goebbels, Eichmann and Himmler. the church that gave the western world the 1000 year dark ages of zero social and economic progress. The church that killed ten million or more Muslims during the Xtian crusades - no wonder they have their own nutcases it goes on and on. Including the endless hidden molestation of children.

Hilarious. What's next, a serialization of that important work of art, Kathy's Story, which duped over 300,000 gullible Irish souls. Currently listed as "non-fiction" on Amazon! This drivel simply simply rehashes the bogus attack on Pope Benedict XVI in March 2010 by the New York Times' Laurie Goodstein. One review of the movie said, “All the reports of sex abuse in the church since the 1960s went directly to the current pope, Benedict XVI, to the time when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.” WRONG. There was no central command center until 2001 when Ratzinger took over. And facts and statistics show that’s when things really began to change—just the opposite of what Gibney would have us believe.