AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Irishchatter Yeah he admitted that he sexually abused young girls but I seriously do not have any sympathy for what he done to them. Why did they have interview him? Like hes just a dirty miserable person who should've been locked away. I would've preferred to hear what the victims have to say. I definitely didn't want to hear what he says. Whenever he talked, he made me sick to my stomach, why is he still alive to tell the tale? I swear to god, why did Amy Berg have to do this? I just can't stop asking this question - why did they have to interview him?!. I would've rathered him silenced than hear him speak, it made me ears bleed. Sick pervert, he doesn't deserve to be in this project, he deserves punishment! Why are we giving him credit here?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carl It's a shocking insight into a world already known to be as disgusting and duplicitous as is laid bare in this documentary.Father O'Grady seems to fluctuate between the repentant child molester honestly searching for truth and forgiveness, and a subtle and controlling egotist who needs to be central to every facet of the emotional devastation in his wake.Although it may be impossible to come to this documentary as a 'neutral' observer it does feel forced along in some areas. The tone of the film is more interested in exposing the pain and disgusting acts than as a window into another world. An obvious attempt to appeal to the base emotions, and would have preferred more of a focus on the hypocrisy of child molestation within a Christian World view. However, where the film succeeds with tremendous impact is the complete access to the victim's struggle to find understanding, and the perpetrator's car crash he calls his life.

Mike B This is mighty strong documentary on the abuse of children by the Catholic Church and its cover-up. I read elsewhere that the term "abuse" is a euphemism for much more sordid acts; namely the physical rape of an innocent child.This film examines the history of one pedophile priest in the United States and how his acts were simply covered-up by the Catholic hierarchy. He performed innumerable acts on both male and female children. Even though some parents reported this to the Catholic ministry, it was only when police officials became involved that he was arrested. There are many interviews with both the victims and those in the Church hierarchy who covered it up, as well as the pedophile himself.So are we provided with many different angles. The documentary never becomes accusatory in itself – but it allows us to view the heart-wrenching lives of the victims and their families. They try to extract an apology from the Vatican, but this is all in vain.It even brings us to view the life of this eerie pedophile, not presented as evil incarnate; but as a human being with a severe psychological problem. At times you can feel his ingratiating performance even as he acknowledges the severity of what he has done. This is a rare film that deals with both oppressor and oppressed.The film is about several things: the nature of the evil that exists in this pedophile, the corruption of the Catholic Church, the Church's refusal to deal with sexual issues and admit its crimes against humanity, but most of all it is about the torment of the victims who are left alone with their families to struggle on with their lives. This documentary contains some very emotional scenes and is very well made.

Urantia Woe to anyone who dares to lead a little one astray especially if you are supposed to represent God to that smaller-framed adult-in-progress! It would be better that a big rock (like an island, for example) be securely fastened to your feeble and frail little neck before your next swimming lesson than to sit before the Supreme Judges on High with those kinds of crimes against kids being exposed to the judicial illumination of an administrative system of universal law and order that is no respecter of persons (treats everyone with an equal degree of fairness and justice regardless of what title one may have had applied to them during their earthly sojourn). I once heard mercy defined as applied love but I would speculate that such an application would only be applicable if sincere repentance is detected and I would never presume to be capable of evaluating that kind of thing in another person regardless of how angry and upset I felt watching this film. I will admit that this movie was extremely difficult to watch all the way through to the end (but I did anyway) since unlike a lot of movies that provide a temporary escape from reality, this in-your-face presentation mercilessly thrusts you right smack dab in the middle of a part of reality that almost sounds unbelievable at first...until you witness firsthand the tear-stained faces of the victims and their families who have been permanently scarred by the painfully tragic circumstances of their youth involving priests who took advantage of their priestly positions of authority and traded their souls (the souls of the iniquity-embracing priests) for a few fleeting moments of forgettable nothingness.