The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This was a hard one to watch.It is difficult to determine which feeling was dominant while I watched this documentary: rage to see a priest describing (apparently with no regrets) how he used to approach families and abuse their children; or a huge sense of sadness to hear the father of one survivor telling about how he feels guilty for not protecting his daughter.While I don't think the producers wanted to soften in anyway the crimes of Father Oliver O'Grady, they refrain from showing him as the only evil doer. Instead, they research on the hierarchy and other political aspects of Catholicism, revealing that the Catholic Church itself is as guilty as the pedophile priests (or even more) when it not only ignores the victims' complaints but actively tries to cover-up those crimes in order to protect its image.It is an excellent documentary but one that I probably won't have the stomach to watch again.

This is an exceptionally well made documentary that is very difficult to watch, as it deals with the molestation of children by priests who were trusted by their families. It only follows a couple cases, though if you watch the news you realize that this is actually a much wider-spread problem--as many more priests in the US have been prosecuted for raping kids. But this isn't the worst part--church officials have actively impeded prosecution, often transferred molesters to new and unsuspecting parishes instead of turning them over to the police and wouldn't think of excommunicating them. In fact, they CONTINUE to employ them and provide them with retirement incomes--in addition to allowing them to set foot in a church building! If the quality of a documentary is based mostly on how angry it makes you feel and how well it convinces you of their position, then this is a GREAT film. Well constructed and hard-hitting--this is a terrific film.By the way, it is important to point out that these men are NOT molesters because of celibacy. For years, I did psychotherapy with victims and offenders and can tell you from my experience that these men CHOOSE the priesthood to have access to children. Plus, if they NEED sex, why not have an affair or hire a prostitute--it sure beats raping kids. And, by the way, I no longer work in this field, as working with these evil victimizers was simply killing me--plus I didn't feel therapy is effective for these folks.Finally, if you are Catholic, I don't see how you can remain in the church, as this would condone everything. When you see this film, it becomes clear that the church was CLEARLY a co-contributor to the emotional and spiritual rape of countless children. Now perhaps you could say to yourself that the offenders and their superiors who condoned it only represent a small portion of the Catholic church. But what about the rest of the Church and the Pope? Where is their response of such evil?! The silence is deafening.

This documentary captures a pederast in all his narcissistic glory (and with all of his inability to sense what is going on with others). For that alone, it would be a valuable work. The documentary purports to present a photo essay concerning the shortcomings of Catholic leadership. While some of this is regrettably true, other points presented -- for example, the notion that clergy are more important than non-clergy -- are distortions at best. To that end, the piece falls short and could easily become another exercise in Catholic bashing.The stories of the families are compelling and the injuries incurred heartbreaking. In this regard, the movie did not delve deeply enough. It is not enough to show anger and tears or hint at why a family might be ripe for abuse. More needs to be done here.Some commentary was just plain stupid. For example, it was suggested that because celibacy is required of clergy, that the view is that sex is bad, and that child sexual abuse is just another form of sex that is bad, equivalent to any other form of bad sex, that is to say, all sex. The invitation to join this spiral of nonsense needs to be declined.Notwithstanding the criticisms above, the film is an important contribution to bringing the problems of child sexual abuse to light, and for that, the film's makers and participants need to be applauded.

You judge a tree by its fruit. This documentary succeeds in letting viewers behold this dark little secret that the Catholic Church hopes you will never find out about: The rotting fruit of their sin-harvest that comes from unspeakably heinous crimes against children that are tolerated by them as being business-as-usual! Love is the desire to do good to others but that is the antithesis of all that the Catholic Church represents as it was portrayed in this documentary and as revealed by fearless journalists all over the world who have courageously accepted the bold challenge to find the truth no matter where it takes them and then tell it like it is.