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Storyville: Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa

Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa

10/06/2013

BBC Four - Storyville, Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa

Documentary about an American priest who abused deaf children and those who exposed him.

Documentary exposing the abuse of power in the Catholic Church and a cover-up that winds its way from Wisconsin through Ireland's churches to the highest office of the Vatican.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney exposes abuse of power in the Catholic Church and a cover-up that winds its way from Wisconsin, through Ireland's churches, all the way to the highest office of the Vatican. The film investigates the secret crimes of a charismatic priest who abused over 200 deaf children in a school under his control and documents the first known public protest against clerical sex abuse in the US - a struggle of more than three decades by four deaf young men who set out to expose the priest who had abused them. Their efforts ultimately led to a lawsuit against the former pope, Benedict XVI himself.

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