Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012) Edit

A 1997 letter from the Vatican

A belief that good intentions purify bad behaviour.

A Catholic going to confession is at his or her absolutely the most vulnerable.

A couple of days after his ordination.

A group of young zealots

A high school student who had been molested by Murphy.

A little less than the angels.

A nice cushy job to protect him.

A perversion into a holy act.

A priest can take bread and wine

A priest who had an affair with this 12, 13 year old girl

A small town in northern Wisconsin.

A week went by and I knew his last day was going to be Friday

About ongoing abuse.

About the abuse he suffered as a teenager.

About the impact of the financial losses.

Abuses a child at his grandfather's funeral.

According to Canon Law,

According to Church law, Canon law, had expired long before the others.

After Father Murphy baptized me,

After getting nowhere with Archdiocese and being told by the Police

After graduating from college,

After graduating from Gallaudet University.

After he was ordained as a priest in 1950,

After it happened, I just left.

After that, we got in the car and we left.

After the first time Tom played with me, I got used to it.

Against the Vatican on Terry's behalf.

Ahh.. anally raping them, and thing like that. You don't heal from that.

All the kids just loved him, they always flocked to him.

Almost immediately, it was announced

Also uncovered the fact that the archdiocese of Dublin

An anonymous source leaked a mysterious document.

An earlier statement had put an end to Maciel church trial.

And "emptiness".

And a palace to live in.

And all of us pointed at this kid, Joe, and said, "He is."

And all the hearing people were shocked.

And all through the '70s and through the '80s and up until that letter

And almost no thought at all about the victims.

And an expert witness in lawsuits against the Church.

And apologized for the Church's past sins

And Archbishop Cousins got very angry.

And Archbishop Weakland called me in to have a meeting.

And be willing to say, "This is us, world. This is us. This is who we are."

And began collecting sworn affidavits from Murphy's victims.

And Bob got in his face and really let him have it.

And Bob put the flyer on DA Michael McCann's desk.

And Bob said, "If you're angry, Gary, then go.

And Bob was like, "Go to the police station, now, go!"

And Bolger is like, "You don't understand, Grace, stay out of it."

And called Father Walsh.

And chose the name Benedict XVI.

And counted amongst his friends the world's richest man, Carlos Slim,

And decided to contact a lawyer.

And decides what to do with him,

And didn't say anything.

And do whatever you can to keep ammunition away from them.

And during that two year period while they are investigating,

And entered the St Francis Seminary in 1943.

And ethos of the hierarchy.

And even criminal involvement with children.

And everybody knew that, and they just left me alone,

And Father Murphy had come back.

And Father Murphy molested me again

And found an unexpected way back

And Gary was thrown off guard.

And granted the men a meeting with then Assistant DA Bill Gardner.

And guessing that the detectives had already talked to Murphy.

And handed out their flyers to passers by.

And he closed the door and he told me to take off my pants.

And he could communicate with all the kids.

And he gets all the material to show that Maciel Marcial was a sex criminal.

And he got that way by giving money to people.

And he mentioned that back as far as 1960,

And he nudged me again, so I acknowledged him.

And he personally went to see Cardinal Ratzinger

And he said, "Look, this is a terrible problem.

And he said, "We want to talk to you about Murphy."

And he thinks that there's going to be a response.

And he touched it to her vagina and he said,

And he was promoted by John Paul II

And he was really trying to get deaf people

And he was very good, he was a really, really popular priest.

And he was very upset.

And he would ask detailed questions,

And he would bless you.

And he's always pleaded not guilty.

And he's got a stake a in luxurious state of affairs for the rest of his life.

And I decided to come and support everyone, all the victims.

And I don't think that Benedict XVI is able to resolve this problem.

And I felt like my sins had been wiped away.

And I just kept it to myself.

And I just regurgitated it onto paper to Murphy.

And I just said, "I have some stuff on the Father Murphy case

And I lied in bed,

And I said, "I'm going to go to the parents."

And I said, "Take off my pants?"

And I saw that he was molesting a boy.

And I thank the whole team of lawyers that have been here,

And I thought to myself, "He's a priest and I'm supposed to obey him."

And I thought, "You know what? I'm going to try my best to tell him."

And I told him, "No."

And I was asked to evaluate some of the information.

And I was looking at this man in a black suit, the white collar,

And I went and peeked around the coroner from my classroom.

And I went to open the door and the door was locked.

And if you follow this problem to its foundation,

And in particular the office run by then Cardinal Ratzinger,

And in that eight months he abuses another child.

And insist on being masturbated

And is realizing that

And it didn't take long, it was over.

And it scared me. So I admitted that, yeah, I play with myself.

And it was probably his penis bumping up against me.

And it was time to do something about it. And we did.

And it went out to the kids in particular

And its witness is as perfect society to the rest of the world.

And join Garry, Arthur and the bankruptcy plaintiffs

And just watching and smiling.

And kneel to pray.

And knowing that Murphy was a paedophile.

And make Jesus Christ present on this altar.

And make them live a life of prayer and penance.

And most people don't want to have anything go public.

And Murphy wouldn't live much longer.

And my response usually is, "Always."

And my wife ultimately took me to a psychologist.

And not said anything to anyone.

And not talk about it.

And now I'm here, and I feel really good.

And only in the moment when all the Vatican is stopped,

And opened universities and seminaries all over the world.

And other supporters of Father Murphy within the deaf community

And persuaded Gary to sign an unusual document

And priests come to him who have sexually offended,

And saying a priest has done something wrong,

And see a dark shadow passing by and they knew it was him.

And so they now blame the media,

And so, cases wouldn't get bogged down.

And so, Des Connell pleads with the Vatican,

And so, I told Father Walsh about Father Murphy molesting me.

And so, my dad would speak and Father Murphy would interpret.

And so, when I was ten, Father Murphy baptized me.

And St John's offered Gary the sum of a few thousand dollars for counselling.

And talked like an angel, he was a devil in disguise.

And that a paedophile is not a sinner,

And that came not from Ratzinger's office,

And that distorts the whole picture.

And that some bishops would have, in a way, countenanced that,

And that this scandal was not just an American scandal,

And that's when my dad lost his temper

And that's why we took the case to him.

And the Archbishop thanked us for bringing this matter

And the author of the book The Case of the Pope.

And the bishops, archbishops and cardinals

And the children loved Jesus too.

And the Church for $450,000.

And the code of Omerta, the code of silence,

And the first regulations to keep these issues absolutely secret

And the higher you go, the more they know.

And the more I got into it, the more and more discouraged I got.

And the more we worked on it, the angrier I got.

And the normal life of the parish can continue.

And the response from the Vatican is to have compassion for the priest,

And the role the Vatican played in protecting them.

And the sanction for breaking that secrecy

And the smell would fill the room.

And the structure always wants to defend itself.

And then he collapsed and was taken to the hospital.

And then he said,

And then Murphy came out. And they met.

And then, Father Walsh told Meyer in 1957.

And then, he ****d her.

And then, I said something in 1963.

And then, I went back to watching.

And then, two detectives came into the room and said, "You can go."

And then, two police officers told us to stay in a room.

And there have started to be cases, in Latin America,

And there was no TTY, and my parents were far away,

And there were representatives of the Vatican in that meeting.

And they recommend in 1992 that he should be dismissed from the priesthood.

And they subsequently published 1,200 articles.

And they went ahead and they actually did begin the process to buy an island.

And they were all under oath, they couldn't talk about it.

And they were good people, it was a good group of friends.

And they were quiet as a church mouse.

And they would put this flyer,

And they'll say, "Really?!" "Yeah, really."

And through tears, Murphy said goodbye to each of them.

And throughout Europe.

And to demolish the diplomatic immunity of the Vatican.

And to obtain cash settlements for survivors.

And to reckon with the sex abuse crisis

And to think that a quarter of a century later,

And to which I have given many years of my life,

And trying to shout and to warn,

And victims see the lawsuits he brings

And we ask these and all our prayers,

And we started handing out these flyers.

And we waited and waited and waited.

And we were all excited about being able to leave.

And were able to reveal, how the Vatican was part

And what we need them to do, is to act.

And will not stop us.

And yet at the same time was trying to balance his loyalty

And you say, "I won't absolve you"

And you see that in these documents.

And, by 1963, he was promoted to director of St John's.

And, I mean, "This wasn't abuse, these kids,

And, in 1995, we had a budget of $7 million

And, suddenly, in the year 2010,

Any of the information that they learned in the process.

Archbishop Connell finally convened a secret church trial.

Archbishop Meyer.

Archbishop Weakland does absolutely nothing with him.

Are all obliged to take an oath of absolute secrecy,

Around the same age as me who I could play with

Arthur and Gary, to see if they could finally hold Murphy to account.

As a dorm supervisor, Tom had used threats of discipline

As a result of Terry's lawsuit,

As deft students they were told to target bars

As is found very clearly in the Gospel stories of Christ.

As more and more victims of Maciel came forward.

As revelations continued in the Walsh case,

As the only way they can hold the church to account for what it has done.

As the prayers continued late into the night,

At a time when nobody suspected

At John Conway's suggestion, they hired a lawyer

At St John's Abbey, in Collegeville, Minnesota,

At this magnificent basilica in Rome.

Attempted to serve legal papers from Terry's lawsuit, to the Vatican.

Back in Milwaukee, Gary Smith decided to tell his father

Back in the 1980s,

Bambi was the first movie that I watched with captioning.

Basically, another black and white who's placed in there,

Beatification is the celebration of the blessed souls arrival in heaven

Because everybody is thinking the Pope is dead,

Because he had good English skills.

Because he was the leading spokesman for an intelligence,

Because he was too ill.

Because I didn't have any siblings.

Because I didn't know how to write well,

Because I didn't think she would believe me.

Because I was hearing that he was molesting other kids.

Because it's a human problem.

Because McCann and Gardner were devout Catholics.

Because of a letter that Father Murphy had written to Cardinal Ratzinger.

Because of the Statute of Limitations

Because of the way he lusting after the prey that he's stalked.

Because the organizations of the victims

Because there were so many children

Because they are totally loyal to the Vatican.

Because they had not been believed by anybody.

Because victims keep coming to the archdioceses about him.

Before being invited back

Before ordination,

Began showing up at Gary's apartment,

Behind closed doors, Maciel led a secret life.

Being the polar opposite of the radicalism,

Benedict XVI would like to heal the situation, to heal the victims.

Benedicti Decimi Sexti.

Between the Vatican and Ireland.

Bob Bolger made this video to memorialize Father Murphy's crimes.

Bob Bolger was another student

Bob Bolger, Gary and I went to the Milwaukee Courthouse downtown.

Bob gave me the camera and I videotaped it.

Bob was writing back and forth with the officer

Bob, Arthur and Gary went to the Milwaukee Cathedral

Bob's ringing the door bell, and then he comes away from the door

Boston lost more than 50% of it's parishes.

Both that a man who proposes to act in the name of God

Brought to one of their encounters what he said was a consecrated host

But according to the laws of Roman Catholicism, known as Canon law,

But also took bold steps to protect the church from their claims.

But an investigation revealed that, even before 1960,

But angry parents forced the police to act.

But as long as it's secret, it's OK.

But at the school, the matter was not forgotten.

But Church superiors overruled the idea of an island for paedophile priests.

But for the faithful in Ireland, the cover up may be an unforgivable sin.

But Gary, Bob and Arthur believed

But he didn't come back.

But he gave me one of his looks.

But he was stopped by the Secretary Of State, Cardinal Sodano.

But he's a criminal.

But I couldn't see.

But I knew he was leaving because he had molested children.

But I never touched him, I refused,

But I still hear some of the old Monsignori in the Vatican,

But I'm not so informed

But if you ask me that now in the year 2008,

But in 2012, 570 victims of sex abuse,

But instead of being punished by the Vatican,

But it was too late.

But Murphy was not dismissed.

But Murphy went to play the slots.

But nothing happened, and that was truly disappointing.

But on one point Father Fitzgerald was absolutely clear

But rather from the office of Cardinal Sodano.

But still he did not act.

But that's not to say that they've lost their faith.

But the church did not punish the priest,

But the Church has also begun to attack survivor's groups in Court.

But the newspaper's editor removed any mention of sexual abuse.

But the parish was not told anything about Murphy's past.

But the people sending me in obviously had ulterior motives.

But the Pope poses a problem.

But then what happened in 2001,

But there was a little space that you could see his face through.

But there was something far worse than a conspiracy.

But they turned their heads and looked the other way.

But they wouldn't actually sign "Bad",

But when it comes to stories about sex abuse,

But you've persecuted this poor cardinal.

But, as the song goes,

But, erm, I've so much to do.

By "they", I mean Vatican authorities,

By 2010 he had filed over 1500 lawsuits against the Church.

By arguing either that the Vatican is not a real state

By being honest about it.

By his own count, had committed over 200 acts of abuse.

By justice that had not gone forward

By reassigning abusers, that's nothing less than hideous.

By transferring $55 million of church money to a cemetery trust.

By writing an unprecedented letter to the Irish faithful.

Caching in on the pain of the victims

Cardinal Bertone, and the former Secretary of State, Cardinal Sodano.

Cardinal Law cost the Church tens of millions of dollars in settlements.

Cardinal Ratzinger succeeds to get the evidence.

Cardinal Ratzinger waits till the moment when John Paul II is dying.

Cardinal Ratzinger, now His Holiness Benedict XVI,

Cardinal Ratzinger's investigation confirmed his suspicion of Maciel's crimes

Cardinale Ratzinger.

Centralized in the secret archives

Cold, merciless with the dissenters in the Church.

Come to me when just a moment is given, but not not yet.

Coming out of this silence, of this deaf community,

Connell followed orders from the Vatican to keep any details of Walsh's crimes

Considered to be someone who stood up for the Vatican.

Continue to surface all over the country.

Cos they all said, "No, no, nothing is going on."

Cos two of the gentlemen in the dorm

Cousins admitted that he hadn't bothered to talk to them.

Cousins said that he had interviewed Murphy and the school staff.

Cousins would deny having said this,

Defends and produces sexual abusers.

DEMONSTRATORS: 'Law must go! Law must go!'

Deny, minimize, and blame.

Despite Gary's apology,

Determined to make their voices heard,

Did Benedict order his trial?

Did Benedict punish him in any way? No.

Did he stay silent or did he speak with John Paul about Maciel.

Did the Vatican finally dismiss Father Walsh

Did you ever meet Murphy?

Documents showed that the church kept allowing Walsh

Documents were uncovered revealing the role of Rome

Does involve him in a crime against humanity.

Don't bother me. Don't bother me. Go on.

During his absence,

During the summer months,

Eight diocese have taken bankruptcy protection

Erm... And encourage them to go to the police.

Even after a decade of abuse,

Even as Irish churches lay empty,

Even as Maciel funneled millions of dollars into the Vatican.

Even though he's admitted to 100 cases of abuse,

Even though, in 1979 already there was a complaint made against him

Eventually $1 billion.

Every bishop and every cardinal,

Every morning, we'd have mass.

Every single priest sex abuse case went to Ratzinger.

Everybody involved in that process,

Everybody points to this to be from the date 2002,

Examining celibacy in the priesthood.

Famous for helping to end the Communist rule in his native Poland

Famous for its nutmeg and beautiful beaches.

Father Doyle is an early whistleblower in the scandal.

Father Doyle wrote that these cases were going to cost the Church

Father Fitzgerald did not believe in psychology or counselling.

Father Fitzgerald started out as a priest in Boston

Father Murphy agreed to pay $500 for Gary's legal fees

Father Murphy asked who was going to sleep with him.

Father Murphy comes walking into my classroom

Father Murphy dies.

Father Murphy knew how to sign

Father Murphy looked at it and then asked me really weird questions like,

Father Murphy walked up behind me and pushed me in the back of the head.

Father Thomas Brundage called priest paedophilia,

Father Walsh had tried to do something about Murphy.

Father Walsh visited a house and paid a lot of attention to the 11 year old son.

Father Walsh was immediately removed from the clinic.

Finally, I think after a year,

Finally, I woke up and I was furious

Flies to New York and he stays in New York and in Mexico City for eight days,

Following a Vatican to live a life of prayer and penitence

Following the dictates of the Vatican,

For 20 years.

For a number of reasons.

For a priest, belief in his own goodness can transform,

For centuries the Vatican has been accustomed

For crimes against humanity,

For eight months, the Vatican dithers

For him it is a horrible sin.

For most people, Tony Walsh was the priest from Ballyfermot

For nearly 20 years, yet did nothing to inform parents or police.

For not following Canon law.

For priests to go to when they sexually molested,

For priests, secrecy can have its rewards.

For the Catholic Church, by fascists.

For the Hartford Courant,

For the reputation of the church in the avoidance of scandal,

For their misplaced concern

For this guy being abused.

For which I have great respect

Forcing Anderson's next attempt

From 2001 forward,

From Archbishop Devlin Martin,

From living victims to dead souls,

From religious life, so my heart went out to them.

From the 50s to the 90s,

From the outside, Ratzinger is often perceived as a stiff personality,

From the priestly state.

Gardner in his commentary of St John's

Gardner went out to St John's to question students in the senior boys' dormitory.

Geoffrey Robertson is a human rights lawyer,

Great Britain, Africa, South America and the Philippines.

Had known about Walsh's activity

Had nothing to do with sexual abuse really,

Has been Timothy Dolan, who was recently promoted to Cardinal.

Having heard complaints from Arthur and from other students,

He abused some of them too.

He agreed to babysit for the children and God knows what happened to the kids that week.

He allowed that this problem had existed before,

He and I just met alone and I told him,

He asked me, "Have you been playing with your penis?"

He began hanging out with Arthur and Gary

He came to the conclusion that priests who sexually abuse children are like vipers

He celebrated him.

He certainly didn't come off as an evil, angry person, and so on...

He could have been playing with himself for all I know,

He denounced the excesses of Capitalism

He didn't come back the second year, he didn't come back the third year,

He didn't say anything, but I could see his facial expression change.

He does psychological and criminological assessments of Murphy

He favoured me. He wanted me.

He favoured spiritual treatment,

He filmed Murphy's departure.

He formed an order, the Order of the Paracletes

He got what he wanted and he would leave, that was his thing.

He had a knack for public speaking and fundraising

He had at least two secret mistresses and four children.

He had conducted an investigation and found no proof.

He had his own sexual activity that he had to hide and keep secret

He had the second most prominent church in catholicism

He had this ability like the Pied Piper

He has also spent a considerable amount of time with Joseph Ratzinger.

He has power over heaven and hell.

He has remained in the Church while being both a critic of the Church

He initially tries to work within Church channels

He is a criminal who plans his activity,

He is beyond the law.

He is made a different brand of human being.

He is slandered all the time, people carelessly saying he's a paedophile,

He just never came back.

He keeps gathering information on Murphy

He knew which boys wouldn't object if he went to them.

He left the priesthood.

He liked seeing me ejaculate.

He molested Gary almost every night.

He moved next door on assignment to St John's School For The Deaf.

He never once acknowledged the role of the Vatican in all of this.

He now believes that Tom was breaking him in for Murphy.

HE PANTS

He really was the bête noire of the conservative church,

He said that, at the time, he did not find the allegations credible.

He said, "How dare he blame us?

He searched the truth about Maciel but he didn't get the courage

He seeks to hold the Pope accountable

He sent a priest out, he was looking in Barbados,

He set out on a road trip with his friends from St John's,

He started scolding and arguing with us.

He told him, "You need to walk yourself right now

He told me to pull down my pants and to do it right there.

He wanted me.

He was a hearing man who could sign and sign very well.

He was a morphine addict and a ruthless sex criminal

He was allowed to dress in clerical attire and said Masses

He was also a therapist counselling his fellow priests.

He was Archbishop of Munich and Freising,

He was assigned to a local church, St Anne's.

He was bowing and scraping and worshiping the Pope and the Pope apparently liked it.

He was caught up in the era of activism

He was held in great favour by John Paul II.

He was known as a great theologian and intellectual.

He was like a second father to me.

He was looking in various islands

He was not going to make eye contact with us.

He was part of the Singing Priests group.

He was playing with me.

He was...

He watched me intently until I was done.

He went away in a short retreat

He would look down, look around,

He would play with the kids and the nuns would stand around

He would visit the monasteries every few days

He would walk in like a cat.

He wrote to the Pope, he constantly wrote to bishops

He, of course, is deaf and marginality literate.

He'll be damned.

He's beginning to see some of the communication about these cases

He's come out and said very openly that he is gay (in his book),

He's pleaded not guilty.

He's put in the charge of the older boys,

He's working for the Papal Nuncio in Washington,

Head on to ruining this man's life.

Helped to prop up the secret system.

Her heart broke for me.

Hi, my name is Gary Smith. Hello. I thank you all for coming here today.

Hidden behind the walls of the church.

His first appointment in 1979 was to Valey Farmers.

His first reaction is the horror

His first reaction was,

His stuff was removed, and then, there's another guy,

Hoping that sex offenders and alcoholics

How deep this scandal was

However, he did it without sacrificing his standing

I confessed my sins.

I could see Father Walsh and Father Murphy getting into a huge fight down the hallway.

I could see Father Walsh signing and I was watching him

I could see him sit on a bed

I could see Murphy creeping into our room,

I could see that Jesus loved children.

I couldn't stand seeing the church tell everyone to keep quiet,

I couldn't work that out.

I decided to write what turned out to be a seven page letter to Murphy.

I did receive a receipt,

I didn't know that we had 55 molesters in my monastery.

I didn't know that.

I didn't know there were more than 70 molesters

I didn't want to be picked.

I don't think there's a vocabulary that we have

I don't.

I felt awful having to go back and to say

I felt like we were in heaven.

I felt proud, I felt better.

I felt sick and confused.

I felt so excited that he chose me out of all the others.

I felt that I could make a contribution

I filled out the confession form.

I first became aware of the Murphy case

I folded my hands, kept my eyes down, did my studies.

I got hate mail, I got hate phone calls that were anti Semitic.

I got up from my chair

I got used to it and didn't care.

I had kept this quiet for so long

I had no idea how big the story was.

I had no idea that we had treatment centers around the world

I have to try to tell the truth, I don't work for the Catholic church.

I imagined Jesus crying on the cross with a broken heart

I immediately agreed, and signed the paperwork.

I just didn't know what to do.

I just feel myself shaking

I just wanted to graduate and get out of there and feel better.

I kept it a secret.

I liked being in the dorm.

I lived in the system.

I love Jeff for that.

I loved that school.

I made him come down and visit me, and...

I mean bishops, I mean religious superiors.

I mean, in the Catholic mindset, you don't sue the Church.

I mean, it was a consensual relationship

I mean, that's a clinic allowing him to do something like that.

I mean... Even in 2011.

I realised that the Vatican was in control of every priest and every nun,

I really went into hiding for about 35 years.

I remember filming Murphy leaving

I remember interviewing a woman once and she said,

I remember looking at him and thinking,

I remember one afternoon I went to Murphy's office

I remember when I got there, I couldn't stop crying.

I said, "I have dates and times"

I sent that letter off to him and I got no reply,

I shouldn't have said anything, I should've kept it to myself.

I spoke to a priest only yesterday, he says,

I spoke to one bishop who was so angry.

I started getting these revelations, these memories.

I started sweating like crazy... ... so nervous.

I submitted that to Cardinal Ratzinger's office.

I suppose perhaps I should've, perhaps I should have done

I think about it now

I think it was in confession.

I think it's about time when a paedophile gets thrown out of a clinic.

I think, for Catholic journalists, it has been a very difficult time.

I thought I had made a mistake.

I thought I was going there to uncover the crime,

I thought it was pastoral care,

I told him I thought I was dealing with a person of good faith as well.

I want to ask you a question about Father Maciel

I wanted Murphy's attention, like all the other kids, I needed him.

I wanted to be a Catholic, like everyone else.

I was a monk, I was a very pious monk.

I was afraid if I said "No", he would be mad.

I was afraid to tell my mother

I was completely unprepared for the reaction.

I was excited and couldn't wait to have my first communion when I was 12.

I was forgiven and blessed, and then I was touched.

I was four in 1954 and I really liked being at school.

I was kind of surprised,

I was looking at the nun and my parents left.

I was mad and I wanted to protect these deaf kids.

I was mischievous and the nuns would come and say,

I was shocked and I tried to advise Bob

I was shocked. And I thought, "Why would I have to do that?"

I was sitting towards the back of the audience, on the boys' side,

I was very innocent, naive.

I went back and sat at my desk and I didn't say a word about it.

I went to bed one night and, before I fell asleep,

I work for a Catholic publication.

I would call Murphy a wolf,

I would mark things off and turn it in.

I would say in almost every case, yes.

I would say: "I played with myself."

I would see how he would go and pick out certain boys.

I... I don't , I don't know how to, how to analyze someone like that.

I'm so glad that all of us are here and willing to share,

I'm thinking, "Wow, I can't believe this. Where was his compassion?

I've got to tell you I'm shaking

Identified as a key figure who covered up sex abuse in Boston,

If we could get that out of our minds...

If you could get a confidentiality order.

If you had asked me that in 1979, I would not have agreed,

If you see him from the inside, in the inner circle,

In 1929, Mussolini made an alliance

In 1941, he founded the Legion Of Christ,

In 1953, I was four years old.

In 1963, Father Murphy went away for a few weeks.

In 1997, facing a disease that would ultimately take his life,

In 1997, when Renner and I did the investigative piece

In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope,

In 2009, Dolan was the Archbishop of Milwaukee,

In 2010, a government investigation revealed that Walsh,

In 2010, Pope Benedict sought to bring the flock back to the church

In 2011, Jeff Anderson & Associates

In 2011, the release of yet another government investigation

In a Catholic cemetery.

In a clinic run by the Servants of the Paraclete.

In a key victory in the Milwaukee bankruptcy

In a very radical way

In Austria, in Switzerland,

In dealing with other Religions.

In fact, Father Murphy sat right next to me.

In France, in Belgium.

In Germany,

In his role as the Vatican's pubic enemy number one.

In Ireland, Catholicism is kind of like a blood type.

IN ITALIAN:

IN ITALIAN:

In Milwaukee's bankruptcy court.

In most instances, your life is never the same. It's ruined.

In northern Wisconsin.

In order to treat paedophile priests.

In order to understand how the machine works within the Vatican.

In reference to a priest

In return for being given the attribute of statehood.

In secret, Archbishop Connell did launch an investigation,

In Spain in the 4th century after Christ,

In special centers in Italy, France,

In that it takes away children's innocence.

In the clerical culture and with the Vatican.

In the confessional booth, there was a dividing wall.

In the dim light of the illuminated exit sign.

In the end, Cardinal Ratzinger said, "Well, you probably shouldn't be docile."

In the group were two priests.

In the local churches.

In the middle of the summer, towards August, we got a letter

In the Philippines, even some in Africa and India, very slowly.

In the worldwide sex abuse scandal

In their legal crusade to protect children.

In these cultures, the idea of someone coming forward

In which he can abuse children.

In which he dropped the case and apologized to the Church.

In which the American bishops are pleading

In which there is written something about sex abuse with children.

Included the allegations against Murphy in her draft.

Including Arthur and Gary,

Inside the cloistered walls of the Vatican

Instead of removing priests from victims,

Is portray this as an American thing

Is preposterous. He is the Pope.

Is the most knowledgeable person in the world

Is this unbelievably loud and deafening cry for justice.

It appeared to me that Mr Donohue didn't even read the story.

It could be a bigger problem than just...

It doesn't happen.

It doesn't have a people. There are no Vaticanians.

It explodes in Ireland,

It goes from just this broad social acceptance

It had been his job to examine every one of these sex abuse cases.

It is even, I think, inconvenient in this moment to come to me

It is the century old history of the Catholic Church.

It is the creation of a state

It made me feel special.

It sends a pretty blatant message that victims aren't that important,

It started to bother me more and more

It suddenly hit me just how wrong this was.

It turned out that Walsh had made the same report

It was a smoking gun.

It was about 10.30, 11 at night.

It was Bob's idea.

It was hard for me to communicate with my father

It was known as the Inquisition.

It was like a castle.

It was like we were all little sheep lying in our beds

It was the island of Carriacou, off the coast of Grenada,

It was the role played by bishops and the Vatican in allowing the abuse to continue.

It wasn't, "These poor victims!" That was not his first reaction.

It will be, I think, an important task,

It will lead you to the highest corridors of the Vatican.

It's a group of celibate religious figures.

It's a tiny little religious enclave in Rome.

It's a very warm personality, sensitive.

It's got no army, no soccer team,

It's not just, "I'm an old man. I'm an old PRIEST. I'm an old priest.

It's part of the whole psyche and mentality

It's the central demand of the Jerry Kohut lawsuit against the Vatican

It's the status quo, it's what's always been done,

It's...

Its power, its standing and its reputation.

Jeb Bush, Sandy Weill, former chairman of Citigroup,

Jeff Anderson & Associates filed a lawsuit

Jeff said, "Your letter to the Vatican was very powerful,

Jesus wasn't afraid of humanity, and we shouldn't be either.

John Conway did the interpreting and explained it to my father

John Paul did not investigate him,

Just kept thinking: Enough! Enough!

Keeps people from speaking out.

Kids would come forward to their parents and say,

Later on, Father Murphy decided

Later on, I got into trouble at school.

Law was rewarded with a seven year term

Lawrence Murphy retreated to his cabin in Boulder Junction,

Lawrence Murphy was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Leafleting the cars outside of a cathedral,

Lie voluminous records of worldwide sexual abuse in the priesthood,

Like "How?" or "What did you do?"

Like a ravenous wolf.

Like turning bread into the body of Christ,

LOUDSPEAKERS, IN ITALIAN: 'God helps throughout history.

Loved to argue and debate anything

Maciel controlled an annual operating budget of $650 million,

Maciel settled in Jacksonville, Florida.

Maciel was also a particular favourite of Pope John Paul II

Maciel was as connected as you could get in Rome

Many of the people of God see their lawsuits as taking back the church.

Many would disagree.

Marcial Maciel Degollado

Marco Politi is one of Italy's most knowledgeable Vatican watchers.

Maybe we could take the pedestal away from the priest,

McCann's office said it did not investigate past claims,

Meyer went to Murphy and he confessed to the abuse,

Murphy came back and nothing was ever said.

Murphy continued to abuse local children.

Murphy encouraged many of the children he abused to raise money for St John's.

Murphy enlisted older boys in an organized system of abuse.

Murphy had told them that it wasn't true and the kids were making it up.

Murphy passed away and he was buried in his priestly vestments,

Murphy said, "No, I take care of the budget and the money and everything."

Murphy took advantage

Murphy wasn't the only one

Murphy would ask the boys to choose

Murphy would hug children.

Murphy would take some of the boys up to his cabin,

My brother had been electrocuted,

My father had hung himself.

My father never wrote back and forth

My intent was that this would help in the training of priests.

My mother had already been through so much pain.

My mother had been through so much pain and I didn't want to hurt her.

My name is Gary Smith.

My parents didn't know that.

My parents were hearing, so we used home signs,

My question is, what about the sisters?

My responsibility is a reporter.

Never.

News of victims is often drowned out by more powerful voices.

No more than 50% of American Roman Catholic priests were practicing celibacy.

No one gets born in the Vatican, except by accident.

Nobody talked to us, we said nothing,

Nobody told anybody, the civil authorities were not informed.

None of the attributes of statehood.

Not a thing.

Not all deaf people are illiterate, but English is not their language.

Not even a Pope is all powerful because he lives in a structure

Not only determined that he was untreatable,

Not true American Sign Language.

Now what exactly was Ratzinger supposed to do?

Now, I don't know what they would have done if it would have been a slew of murders.

Nuns from the school

Of children in that situation.

Of course we couldn't hear him, but someone would open their eyes

Of that case, as early as 1974.

Of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Of the nearby large city, after admitting

Of what went on in Dublin

Often posing as an agent of the CIA,

Oh, the sex abuse scandals,

On that, I felt we could build a case.

On the basis of the way in which he used the confessional.

On the other hand, he is in a sort of stalemate

Once!

One bishop made the statement, "Little boys heal."

One key cardinal, Angelo Sodano, stayed close to Maciel

One of our heroes.

One of the church’s most public defenders

One of the gentlemen in the dorm had come by the door to my room,

One of the things that Vatican officials had tried to do

One of these was Tom Tannehill,

Only then, after tolerating Walsh's abuse of hundreds of children,

Open the archives.

Operating in the US dioceses.

Or hidden from the faithful behind monastery walls.

Or on having sex with one of the boys.

Or that the degree of his negligence

Or the nature of his crimes.

Or, at best, an Anglo Saxon thing.

Other deaf people had told Father Walsh

Our school had a magnificent statue of Jesus Christ

Over the child abuse scandal

Parents and survivors scanned the Murphy Report

Pat Kuehn was only seven when Tom first molested him.

Patrick Wall was given a special assignment

Patterns in Boston and in Milwaukee

People around him have this kind of information.

People who are concerned about about me asked me how I feel at this moment.

Politicians like to go and meet the Pope.

Poor Joe, I feel bad that we picked him.

Pressuring him to drop the lawsuit.

Priests of wrongdoing, not to mention sexual abuse,

Priests were moved from "A" to "B" to "C" to "D"...

Probably child like it's the best way I could...

Progressive wing in the church.

Proven by a miracle performed in the John Paul's name.

Proving that the Vatican had received the letters.

Quote, "a form of homicide", unquote.

****d and sodomized kids.

Ratzinger goes ahead and orders an investigation,

Ratzinger met with John Paul every Friday

Ratzinger put out this teaching approved by John Paul II that said,

Ratzinger took that job over,

Ratzinger would have liked to open an investigation

Reach out to the victims or alert local parents.

Regarding priestly sexual abuse of minors,

Relationships, involvement

Richard Sipe spent 18 years as a Benedictine monk.

Rick Santorum, and former CIA director William Casey.

Rome may have refused to move against Murphy

Rome received tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world

Saying he's confident 'the Church will clean up its business and do the right thing.'

Saying, "Help us get this priest out of the priesthood.

Saying, "Oh, boys have always done this,

See, there is a heresy that the Church teaches.

Selects, cultivates, protects,

Self delusional...

Setting a priest on a pedestal above ordinary lay people,

Several leaders that I knew in the deaf community that were there

Sex in celibacy became central to my research and understanding.

Sexual predators should be defrocked

She was wearing her black and white robes.

She'd say, "A priest would never do something like that to children."

Sick.

Sipe began what became a 25 year study

Sipe found that clericalism,

Sipe recognised the syndrome that police call Noble Cause Corruption

So by this meeting, in 1974,

So criminal charges in the courts were out of the question.

So he has always been very shocked

So he knows he needs to do something.

So he was right.

So he withdrew from his own case

So how could we possibly have communicated?

So I depended on Father Murphy and the nuns

So I did call the Archbishop's office

So I looked up and I waived because I thought he was just saying hi.

So I played with myself for a little bit.

So I said, "OK", and left the booth,

So I took my pants down and he molested me.

So I was thinking I need to try to,

So I wrote a second letter to Murphy.

So it is 1,700 years that the church is dealing about this.

So it is interesting, for at least 15 years

So much shame and embarrassment, but we know it goes on there.

So that the children couldn't tell their parents

So there was just no question about the validity of the complaints

So we eventually kind of walked out, the Archbishop's saying to me

So when I finally blew, just let it all out,

So you could sign back and forth.

So, he thought, "Let's get an island!

So, you understand that the Vatican is terrorized that in Italy

Sodano would be Maciel's protector right to the end.

Sodano's ability to protect Maciel put Ratzinger in a difficult position

Some from time to time and some in horrendous ways.

Somebody comes to you in confession

States have immunities, states have their own law.

Statute of Limitations in the Church courts,

Still no reply.

Such magnificent stonework.

Suddenly, they were granted a meeting with Archbishop Cousins.

Sunday after Sunday,that flow into these collection plates.

Supporters of the Vatican portray him as a money hungry sheist

Supporting all of us.

Survivors note that Dolan moved assets

Swore an oath of secrecy.

Take the pedestal away from the cardinals,

Take the pedestal away from the whole church,

Teaming up with the New York Times, going back half a century.

Terry had just returned to St John's to teach history

Terry raised so much money he won a motorbyke.

Terry recognized that the Pope's power as a head of state

Terry, having written to Cardinal Sodano,

Thank you all for coming here and supporting us here today.

Thank you. I love you.

That a priest could do something like this.

That can adequately describe how horrendous and duplicitous this is.

That caught the attention of the New York Times.

That confessional would be on the second floor, in the closet.

That cost the church more than $26 million.

That dominates the culture of the Vatican today.

That Father Murphy would leave St John's for health reasons.

That filing of that bankruptcy did not stop us.

That have been complicit in those crimes, worldwide.

That he was very upset because he thought he was dealing

That investigation, known as the Murphy Report,

That is a moment of resurrection.

That is growing most rapidly in the developing world.

That is known as the Vatican.

That is ridiculous. And they're not being held accountable.

That is, to disclose the secrets,

That just bowled me over.

That Murphy couldn't go to his church hearing,

That nuns should have heard creeping through the dorms at night.

That offending priests were allowed to stay in ministry,

That overruled attempts by Irish bishops

That people are baptized, people are married, people are buried

That prompted a few people to come out of the woodwork, if you like.

That Romans can often hear Sunday mass on their electric doorbells.

That should have investigated Maciel

That the priest is perfect, the Pope is perfect,

That the Statute of Limitations had past

That their charges were not taken seriously

That there are treatment centers.

That they had to make public what was taking place. And they did that.

That they will never reveal for the rest of their life

That this case would not go forward because Father Murphy was quite ill.

That this was a pattern,

That was one where the Statute of Limitation never expires.

That was part of your brief,

That was the policy.

That was the real scandal.

That wasn't public knowledge.

That we were just little troublemakers.

That we'd been writing all these years, on its head.

That were similar to Dublin.

That, you know, this was not really the way to fix this.

That's how people saw them," and that's because they were almost Godlike.

That's nothing less than nauseating.

That's telling.

That's the worldwide policy

The accuser, the accused and the witnesses,

The alleged abuse took place in the 1950s.

The Archbishop was there, Father Murphy was there.

The attitude from the Vatican was, "We don't turn our priests in.

The best nouns to describe this feeling would be

The big problem was the payoff, the paying for silence.

The bishop is tearing his hair out.

The boys noticed that Father Murphy would single out students

The brief investigation ended.

The campus of that school was beautiful.

The CDF has a dark history.

The centers attempted to rehabilitate and recirculate them.

The children lined up to shake his hand.

The children thought that Murphy was leaving because of health reasons,

The church claims to be, and is recognised as, a state.

The church court informed me

The Church failed to pay the $5,000 for his therapy

The Church is a perfect society.

The Church put a $5,000 down payment on Carriacou,

The church supported Mussolini's one party, fascist state,

The Church's response was silence.

The Cloyne report excavates the dysfunction,

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The DA's office never brought charges against Murphy,

The DA's office took notice of the flyers

The data showed that at any one time,

The deaf community in Milwaukee wanted to dismiss Father Murphy

The deal was struck after a nun called Sister Martha Ann visited Gary,

The disconnection, the elitism

The dorm was cooler than being at home with my parents,

The evidence of the crimes that they have,

The fact is that abuse cases

The faithful heard nothing about Walsh from the Archbishop of Dublin.

The FedEx package was returned, with the Vatican's comment marked,

The first Servants of the Paraclete treatment center

The following year, I was hoping Father Walsh would return,

The form listed stealing, lying, sex and things like that.

The future of the children is what's important.

The government investigation into the Singing Priest

The humility and the compassion upon which the Roman Church was founded.

The idea of a group of deaf men,

The idea was to submit these affidavits,

The identities of the offenders,

The last estimate is it's over $2 billion.

The Maciel case is really a school case

The meeting only lasted about 15, 20 minutes,

The men approached the Milwaukee DA's office with their concerns

The money was certainly one of them. And second, ...

The Murphy case was reinforced Jeff Anderson

The Murphy Commission got access to documents, they got cooperation

The New York Times, and me personally,

The nuns should have been able to hear,

The ongoing revelations have provoked survivors

The only thing you can do is remove them from their target population

The penultimate step in the path to sainthood

The people, they are the church.

The Pontiff cannot be judged by any civil or religious authority.

The priest uses his power over these vulnerable helpless children

The priest would use incense

The priest, he is the carrier of the sacrament.

The primacy of the institution

The Prosecutor General of the Congregation Of Faith

The **** and the torture of children

The response we got from the Vatican... was nothing.

The Roman Curia which is almost 2,000 years old

The sacramentality, the supernatural element and so that is

The same day that John Paul II dies,

The school and Father Murphy.

The second story, morally, is the church's reaction to that,

The Servants of the Paraclete spent $80 million

The sexually abusive priest has to be completely removed,

The signal from Vatican Radio is so strong

The statutes of limitation had expired

The suburb of Dublin.

The suit named Pope Benedict, the current Vatican Secretary of State,

The system of the Catholic clergy,

The therapist's handwritten notes on her interviews with Murphy

The Vatican Ambassador in Washington DC.

The Vatican come back and decide,

The Vatican communiqué did not mention his victims,

The Vatican did nothing.

The Vatican didn't find out about the case until 1996.

The Vatican didn't move a finger to investigate,

The Vatican had known about Murphy for almost 20 years.

The Vatican is fundamentally responsible

The Vatican is not really a state.

The Vatican knew that there'd been prior reports about Murphy,

The very policy of keeping this absolutely secret,

The victims, and their advocates, met with Archbishop Cousins in 1974.

The victims, their mothers, fathers, friends,

The way in which we wanted to handle it then was to take it out of ministry totally,

The wolf would come in, pick his prey, and molest them.

The writer for the Milwaukee Sentinel who covered the story

Their goal was to uncover more documents regarding sex abuse

Then another week went by and then another.

Then Grace got involved and was saying, "Forget it, forgive him!"

Then in 2011, the Archdiocese declared bankruptcy.

Then it became evident that it might be possible

Then, he told me that God forgave me

Then, I was looking up at a nun,

Then, mysteriously, the matter was settled.

Then, the Church hierarchy decided to change the policy of the Paracletes.

There are many people inside the Vatican

There is a deafening silence on Italy's national networks.

There is going to be a delayed reaction in that part of the world.

There is great concern within the hierarchy

There is such a stigma to this problem,

There was a visiting priest from Chicago named Father Walsh.

There was a way that the Vatican was informed

There was no conspiracy,

There was nothing more I could do, I felt awful about that.

There were certain levels of experimentation,

There were some teachers from the school,

There's a question whether you cover up...

These are people set apart.

These documents seemed to turn the whole story

They all pointed at me to have to sleep in the same bed as Father Murphy

They also revealed his complex justifications for his crimes.

They appoint three judges, Canon lawyers, to listen to evidence,

They are about where the American church was in the 1960s and 1970s.

They are called, they are chosen by God, they want to protect

They are severely disordered, and that's why they abuse.

They are the people of God, they're the church.

They certainly lost faith in the hierarchy.

They coerced and tricked him into a settlement.

They could already understand

They decided to file a lawsuit against the Archdiocese,

They don't want only that the priests are defrocked.

They happen only in the United States, in Canada...

They know that celibacy is not practiced.

They like to have the blessing of the Pope,

They met in our dorm, about six of the boys.

They now blame the lawyers,

They now even blame the survivors.

They want full transparency about the past.

They want to know that it's going to stop.

They were described by the Archbishop as members of the Vatican.

They were from the Papal Nuncio's office.

They were introduced to two men who said

They were really the first victims who realised

They would wag their finger at me.

They'd go to the cars that were parked at the school

They're the people of God,

Think of the Pope in the middle and a whole bunch of offices around him.

This calculated, withering position

This case is bringing about change,

This fence is the border of the country

This great scandal explodes in Europe.

This idea that there are enemies out to destroy the church,

This is a global church

This is an old, old problem

This is being driven by Jeffrey Anderson,

This is the guilt of the Vatican.

This is the largest organization in the world.

This matter had been addressed.

This meeting was held in the last week of May.

This program contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.

This scandal distracted people from a key element of the Murphy story.

This was known and it had been dealt with in the past.

Those are the church.

Though Maciel looked like an angel

Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Amen.

Through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Throughout Italy,

To abusing 100 kids, unsupervised.

To Archbishop Cousins and then, we thought the matter would be finished,

To be made through the US State Department.

To care for children, even after a secret stint

To communicate with my father.

To condemn him immediately, publicly and to defrock him.

To demand a complete accounting of all cases of paedophile priests.

To determine the veracity of the allegations,

To encourage their voters.

To force victim to perform oral sex on him.

To handle the various problems of childhood sexual abuse.

To heal the wounds,

To just get all rats to follow him and do whatever he wanted.

To kind of stand up for themselves.

To know that this wasn't an anomaly,

To learn the extent of the crimes and the cover up.

To look at colleges in Washington and New York,

To make sure that the normal things happen

To memories of St John's.

To move John Paul's soul on the path to sainthood.

To negotiate mass settlements,

To report sex abuse to the police.

To report these things to the local authorities?

To roam the streets

To run the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

To say that John Paul was not given the information

To snuff out scandal.

To solicit some form of sexual gratification from him.

To speak about it this moment

To speak in support of Father Murphy

To still submit the Murphy case

To supervise children at St John's.

To the attention of the Archdiocese.

To the faithful, John Paul was one of the world's most popular popes

To the office of the Papal Nuncio,

To the Pope, who clearly did not want Maciel prosecuted.

To the worldwide sex abuse scandal.

To this kind of perversion of power that can be twisted in this way.

To us bishops he says,

To work out how to bring the Pope beneath the law,

To write his dismissal order.

To, ... to show to the world always that it is perfect.

Traveling the country putting out fires for the Church.

Treating more than 2,000 priests

Two priests who were judges on the Tony Walsh case

Uncovered church documents that revealed a new dimension

Under the covers and I felt absolutely disgusted.

Up to $250,000 to settle a case

Up until then, what we thought was that American bishops were at fault.

Uur... what's sincere and what isn't.

Vatican Watch is new, it was Ratzinger's job to investigate.

Victims of sex abuse couldn't help wondering

Victims uncovered nearly 50,000 pages of documents

Victims were sworn to absolute secrecy.

VOICE DISTORTED: The clinic allowed Father Walsh

Walks around to the side of the house, to the right, by the lake

Walsh reported the accusations to Cousins' predecessor,

Walsh was convicted of sexual assault in 1995.

Want full transparency about the past.

Was automatic excommunication, the ultimate sanction the Church can enforce.

Was one of the world's most charismatic fundraisers for the Catholic Church.

Was opened in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, in 1947.

Was that for 25 years, he'd led the Vatican Office familiar

Was that Tony Walsh was Ireland's most notorious paedophile.

Was the final blow which shattered relations

We are talking about the oath of a priest here.

We didn't hear a thing. It was just sickening.

We didn't put the reason why on the flyer,

We got an answer back saying, "Yes, we can open the case."

We grappled with it

We had some gestures for things like eating and for how the scolded me,

We have documents from councils

We immediately said Father Murphy has to be removed from the school.

We just kept handing them out.

We just wanted it to be a warning to people.

We saw communication between American bishops

We thought that the priest would be removed from the school.

We waited for a week to go by,

We went out to the police station and went in.

We were 95% practicing Catholics.

We were accused of being anti Catholic.

We were good innocent Christians.

We're not gonna just go

We're not in the business of being cheer leader for the Holy Seal, or to the bishops,

We've got an archbishop that said that he's gay.

Weakland actually made an effort to do

Weakland also had a formal meeting to plead his case

Weakland had a private conversation with Cardinal Ratzinger.

Weakland inherited Murphy in 1976

Weakland was always

Weakland's activity was a homosexual affair that he had had

Weakland's fall from grace

Were downplayed or managed to uphold instead

Were granted the right to a trial against the Church

Were issued in 1866 by the Vatican.

What any ordinary citizen would do get the guy out and protect others.

What do you do about Father Murphy?

What he does is, he blames the Irish bishops

What most people didn't know

What was happening to them.

What we implore the Vatican to do in this lawsuit,

What you find in Ratzinger at that point is a man who is troubled

What you had was multiple offices of the Holy See,

When a man is ordained a priest, he is changed ontologically.

When asked what steps he had taken

When Benedict became Pope in 2005,

When deposed years later Archbishop Cousins recalled the meeting,

When father murphy stopped, I went to bed right away.

When he has heard about sex abuse scandals.

When I finally told her I thought,

When I first entered St John's, I loved it.

When I first got to the school, I loved it,

When I saw that, I knew this was it.

When I told my wife what I had experienced with Murphy,

When I'm asked in court, often times,

When it became publicly known

When it was founded in the 16th century,

When Murphy took Gary and the other seniors on a road trip

When the Boston Globe said, "Hey, we have a problem here."

When the lawyer asked if he had interviewed students,

When the school would hold a fundraiser,

When there isn't, he eventually becomes a public whistleblower.

When they left, I said to my wife,

When Wall found out that it didn't stop,

When you read the Murphy Report

When you think of what happened,

Where are they now? They're two bishops.

Where he endured legal settlements to abuse victims

Where is the wrongdoing?

Where they determine he has assaulted probably 200 children.

Where were the nuns who were supposed to be watching the children?

Which also drive people nuts.

Which I think has been good.

Which is all nonsense.

Which is overwhelmingly evidence against this guy,

Which one of them would sleep in the bed with him.

Which revealed predatory priests

Which then allowed priests to express themselves sexually,

Which was really exciting.

Which were very graphic and very clear,

Which, up to now, have been hidden.

While in Milwaukee, Dolan met with victims,

Who abused dozens of his legionaries.

Who did an Elvis impersonation,

Who exalted him as a holy man and visionary.

Who had come to see the beatification of Pope John Paul II.

Who had marauded a number of young boys,

Who is very attentive to organize situations

Who raised phenomenal amounts of money

Who still don't see how serious a matter this is.

Who ultimately don't talk to one another, handling these different cases.

Who was abused at St John's by Father Murphy.

Who, at the time, was the Head of the Congregation

Why Benedict was in such a rush

Why didn't any of them just stand up publicly and come out and say,

Why didn't you go yourself, Bishop?

Why they were very, very careful to do anything to the priest.

Why was Jesus just watching?

With a deaf housekeeper who'd studied and worked at St John's.

With a graduate student who ultimately blackmailed him

With a person of good faith.

With a wanted poster of a priest,

With hearing parents who couldn't sign

With his hands lovingly placed on the heads of two children.

With his new Super 8 camera,

With no active students willing to come forward

With officials in the Vatican, repeatedly,

With somebody who was 35.

With sympathetic drinkers who were more free with their money.

With the most severe cases of sex abuse by priests,

Wondering why Murphy was doing this.

Would beat back his lawsuit.

Would find salvation on their knees, praying for mercy.

Would you agree or disagree with that observation?

Would've abused an innocent young person,

Yeah.

Year after year, parents reported Walsh's abuse to the Dublin archdiocese,

Yet even when stories in the press started to emerge about Maciel,

Yet it has this power because of an historical anomaly.

Yet, when he was a cardinal,

You begin to see the same patterns emerging all over the place.

You can never stop them.

You could have, also, thousands of sex abuse cases,

You don't question it, you blindly go along with it.

You have rivers of cash,

You know, between the ages of 26 and 31, I was baptized

You know, comfort the afflicted, what we're ordained for.

You know, don't give money to this man because he abuses these kids.

You know, he's suffered enough, now we've got to give him

You know, help them get to the bottom of this.

You know, it's almost like he's the...he's got the Holy Grail.

You know, that's when they opened up about some of the stuff.

You know, the Catholic Church was part of who we are and what we are.

You know, they would give you authorization

You may not be keeping your celibacy,

10, 12, 13 year old boys.

13 years after the first sign of Walsh's abuse,

178 countries now acknowledge the Vatican as a state.

Go where? Go to the victims yourself.

No, I... Excuse me...

Well, we found out... This is unfair... Signori...!

... but he would touch me.

... is best way I could describe it.

...a couple bad apples, a bad priest here or there.

'about the growing sexual abuse rocking the Catholic Church in the United States.'

'but never informed legal authorities...'

'Cardinal Law knew of Shanley's alleged abusive behaviour,

'Catholics confront the sex abuse scandal on the very first day of holy ...'

'cos he has all the data.

'Even President Bush weighed in yesterday

'Facing the crisis,

'for raping a young boy

'is the latest chapter in a scandal that is...'

'John Geoghan, accused by more than 130 of abuse...'

'Last month's life sentence given to Father John Hanlon

'NBC News In Depth tonight. Crisis in the Church...'

'New details tonight about how the Boston Archdiocese handled the case

'Newly released documents show Boston Church officials knew...'

'Now, after the Church sex scandal first came to light in Boston,

'of a priest charged now with repeatedly raping a young boy.'

'This morning, the Pope has broken his silence

'thousands of victims across the country have gone public...'

'Tonight, another priest...'

'We thank you, oh Father.'

'While contemplating the mystery we give thanks to God, and proclaim,

"4% come to church in Dublin."

"After all," he said, "The students are deaf."

"and bless ourselves. He carried the host, you know.

"and failures of leadership occurred

"and have been living peaceably in northern Wisconsin for 24 years.

"and I'd be honored to represent you."

"Canon law was the problem!"

"contrition",

"Don't throw me away because I have this special mark.

"Every sex abuse case that involves a minor, they all come to my desk."

"Father Murphy admitted to me that he is molesting boys,"

"Go to Father's room." And so, I did.

"Go to the police station. Now, go!"

"Have you been with other boys?"

"He's going to get things in motion."

"How many times have you testified on behalf of the church?"

"I am another Christ."

"I have repented of any of my past transgressions

"I simply want to live out the time that I have left

"in all male environments, it's normal."

"in the dignity of my priesthood."

"Is this supposed to be OK? Did I do something wrong?" I didn't know.

"It's despoiled the priesthood! The sacred institution!"

"Jeff is going to help me sue the Vatican.

"Let's get an island in the Caribbean."

"No monastery will take him!"

"Oh, don't you say that! You can't say that about a priest!"

"OK. I want to see you in my office this afternoon!"

"Paedophilia is infesting lots of seminaries,

"Put him in a monastery for 10 years."

"remorse",

"shame",

"Shit, I should never have told my wife!"

"Show me where we didn't follow Canon law!

"that I think the Archbishop needs to hear."

"The Vatican has instructed us not to report crimes to the police"?

"The victims are asking us to defrock him."

"they were interested, and it's rites of passage."

"They will get over it."

"This is how God loves you."

"This is our problem, we take care of it,

"to the police station."

"undesired and unwanted".

"Walk yourself to jail."

"We are a church of imperfect people."

"We must admit that grave errors of judgment were made,

"We used to get down on our knees when he passed by"

"Well, Father did this to me."

"Well, we won't dismiss him from the priesthood,

"What do you mean, put him in a monastery for 10 years?"

"What's happening with him? What are you doing with him?"

"when they're committing felony crimes."

"Where was his wanting to listen to this?"

"which have seriously undermined our credibility and effectiveness."

"Why would a priest do that to me?

"Wow, that's really impressive."

"You can't stop them, but you can contain them.

"you don't refer to the civil authorities

"you've got to do something about it."

[BELLS CHIME]

[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

[IN ITALIAN:]

[IN ITALIAN:]

[MASS IN ITALIAN]

[PRAYER IN LATIN]

[PRAYER IN LATIN]

♪ But don't you ♪ ♪ Stand on my blue suede shoes ♪

♪ Uh huh ♪

♪ Well, it's one for the money ♪ ♪ And it's two for the show ♪

♪ You can do anything ♪ ♪ But lay off of my blue suede shoes. ♪

$90,000 to Cardinal Martinez Somalo