In one word, the Catholic Church is dying. See high school TV and movie icons then and now, from "Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Was this review helpful? If it were me doing it, I would have been much more hateful and promote a sense of outrage towards those who could/can do something about it yet choose to remain silent. For this reason, the film loses a point. 9 out of 9 found this helpful. It resulted in a stinking, steaming mess of mistreatment and sacrilege. Was this review helpful? Another It lost the trust of its parishioners, leaving its churches nearly empty. Murphy's excuses - offered in therapy:
Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all the way to the Vatican. Thirdly allow me open by asking people to consider Fr. 6 out of 10 found this helpful. Directed by Alex Gibney. Was this review helpful to you? Was this review helpful? From acclaimed documentarian Alex Gibney, comes a potent examination of the history of sex abuse and paedophilia within the Catholic Church. Was this review helpful?
The film looks at the child abuse scandal within the catholic church, focusing specifically on a handful of cases involving deaf children and slowly working its way up to the highest positions within the organization of the church. Was this review helpful? Alex Gibney's dramatic movie is a terrible document about one of the greatest religious scandals ever, which put even the pope, the representative of God on earth, in a very bad light.
After looking at the world of NHL pugilists in last year's outstanding The Last Gladiators, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God finds director Alex Gibney returning to investigating abuses of power, a theme that has served him well in past efforts like Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room and the Oscar-winning Taxi To The Dark Side. If Dan Brown had written a novel about a cover-up in the Catholic Church on the scale depicted in this film, it would be treated as a great work of fiction. But, when the facts were openly exposed in the media, a flood of new abuse cases followed, which would cost the Catholic Church billions of dollars. 6 out of 11 found this helpful. "Mea Maxima Culpa's" Latin translation is "my most grievous fault". Was this review helpful? This is 2015, there is no reason why captioning could not be provided for this documentary. The film gives great insight on how the Catholic Church succeeded in creating a massive cover up. In one word, the Catholic Church is dying.
The only thing that lets it down is a lack of balance, but then, as it says in the film, the Vatican refused to be interviewed for this film. If you criticized the clergy, you could lose your job. Then it goes on to show interviews with another individual and church scenes and there is no open or closed captioning. Was this review helpful? All complaints about pedophilia in the Church went to the desk of the former pope Benedict XVI, when he was dean of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. Never a film-maker to shy away from trying to make sense of a somewhat catastrophic event or subject matter, Academy Award winning documentary film-maker Alex Gibney tackles the subject of paedophilia in the Catholic church. Crazy--and I can't think of a worse film to do without captions. Gibney also takes a broader view of the subject by looking at other cases of clergy abuse (notably in Ireland) and the systematic cover-ups of these crimes by the Catholic Church's top officials, whose unofficial policy on the matter is to "deny, minimize, and blame", according to one journalist interviewed. I have been reading, over the years, about the cover-up by the Church hierarchy,of rampant sexual abuse by priests throughout the world. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God.
Filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the fact that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the 150 million people in the bottom 50 percent of the population. Was this review helpful? Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all the way to the Vatican.