This film 'debunked'


In the comments to a newspaper article citing Grady's arrest for child porn after the film was made, I found a link to a quote-unquote debunking of the film. I like to see if anyone out there has alternate opinions about films like this.

Here it is.
http://www.themediareport.com/hot-topics/deliver-us-from-evil-2006-film/

The site, in it's own words, attempts to be "an educational cooperative to chronicle and monitor the mainstream media's coverage of the Catholic Church sex abuse narrative."

Judge for yourself, but despite it being several pages long, it looks pretty darn weak to me. There are zero cites to support their claims of several facts being wrong, except for Bible references. Those are rather open to interpretation, though.

The one thing I though had some substance to it was that the attempt to waltz into the Vatican with a couple of people and a camera crew was silly. The site claims this was an "unprincipled contrivance"--but I really don't think anyone expected them to meet the pope and have a happy ending. Seemed to me the most they expected to do was to hand over a letter and if anyone welcomed them that would be a bonus.

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The one I thought was really weak was their "debunking" of the movie's claim that "O'Grady roams freely in Ireland". They even admit this is true, but try to say the implication is that the Church should be keeping an eye on him. I certainly thought no such thing. The fact is damning on its face: this man who molested many children and clearly is still attracted to them, is not imprisoned and can roam freely in Ireland.

You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

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I saw its hit piece on Tom Doyle. That site is just carrying the Church's water.

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I think that move, of walking into the Vatican to try and have a face-to-face with the heads of the church, was that they had tried so hard to get something to happen and were hitting brick walls at every turn. It was a last-ditch effort to make sure that every level of the church was (in public at least, because let's face it, those people in the Vatican knew what was happening, they just denied it in the public sphere) proven in the public courtroom to have knowledge of what was going on.

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