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On Saturday night, June 24, after the premire showing of Amy Bergs film DELIVER US FROM EVIL at the Independent Documentary Associations Los Angeles Film Festival, a packed house stood amid thunderous applause as the father of victim who had been sexually abused as a five year-old proclaimed, Mahony belongs behind bars.

Berg tells the story of peopleparents, children, believing, faithful, church going folkso easy to identify with that one is drawn delicately into a story as intriguing and riveting as a best-seller summer mystery novel. The story is woven between the families and kids who trusted the priest and the churchand how they became aware of the true nature of bothand OGrady quietly, casually telling how he was abused by a priest as an altar boy and details the methods he used to groom, seduce, and sexually violate innumerable boys and girls in his parishes.

The camera reflects with the precision of a surgeons scalpel how the church delays, denies, deceives, and defies efforts to protect children from abuse. The anatomy of church control and the shield provided for abusing clergy is a powerful lesson. The depositions of Monsignor Cain, and especially Cardinal Mahony, speak louder than any imaginable commentary. Their performance exudes power precisely because it is literally unbelievable.




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I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.