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Even worse than Brother John...spoiler


The head of the school who stood by and watched it all happen. Brother John was evil through and through but the so called 'decent' Brothers were in my view far worse as they claimed conscience and dispicably stood by to allow the Devil ply his trade!

My opinion is my property, be careful with it please!

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I believe that was mostly because I think the Bishop was a part of this whole abuse thing too. It says in the film that the Superior didn't choose Brother John to head the school, it was the Bishop's decision - he wanted Brother Tom or something along those lines.

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The whole point is that the higher-ups in the Church have been thinking ONLY about the Institution and keeping its image whitewashed, rather than caring a fig about the victims of the abuse perpetrated by the members of this institution.
Best example... Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict... was at the helm of the organization within the Church which was supposed to deal with cases of priestly abuse of minors. It is more and more obvious that Ratzinger - before becoming Pope - and even afterwards - was ALWAYS more concerned with maintaining and protecting the Church's image than in helping the kids.

People are FINALLY beginning to realize how completely morally corrupt the entire Vatican and its hypocritical system are...

By the way, people should realize that the priests don't only have sex with kids. In Ireland the "housekeepers" for the priests were often their mistresses. Gay priests have sex with other adults all the time (I KNOW of this first-hand) and I has a female friend who fell in love with the priest that taught her the catechism when she was converting to Catholicism. He became he lover;..she was 40, he was 63 and the head of two of the major Churches in Paris.

Anyone who doesn't think this is true is living in Fantasy-land

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