I fucking hate Catholicism.

I'm sure there are millions upon millions of fine, upstanding Catholics - my own family members among them...

But the Catholic Church as an organization?

FUCK. THEM.

I just finished watching this documentary, and I'd never actually and truly grasped the phrase "banality of evil" until I watched it.

Watching O'Grady and the organization that covered up his actions and the blase' demeanor of the Cardinal and his superiors who transferred him around... their nonchalance... their cowering behind lawyers in testimony...

PISS. ON. THEM.

If hell exists, I hope they rot in the lowest rung.

Deliver Us from Evil (2006 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Deliver Us from Evil (2006) is an Academy Award-nominated documentary film directed by Amy Berg which tells the true story of the pedophile Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady, who sexually abused potentially hundreds of children between the late 1970s and early 1990s...



The film chronicles O'Grady's years as a priest in Northern California, where he committed his crimes. After being convicted and serving seven years in prison, O'Grady was deported to Ireland, where Amy Berg interviewed him in 2005. O'Grady speaks candidly about his crimes. Additionally, the film presents trial documents, videotaped depositions, and interviews with activists, theologians, psychologists and lawyers which suggest that not only were Church officials aware of O'Grady's crimes, they actively took steps to conceal them.

...Since 1950, sexual abuse has cost the US Catholic Church over one billion dollars in legal settlements and expenses (not including the LA settlement).

...On July 16, 2007, Cardinal Roger Mahony (Archbishop of Los Angeles) and the Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles apologized for abuses by priests after 508 victims reached to a record-breaking settlement worth $660m. Since 2002 nearly 1,000 people filed sexual abuse claims in California. Earlier a $157m settlement was paid by the diocese of Boston.

A.W. Richard Sipe, a psychotherapist, former priest and author of 'Sex, Priests and Power' estimates that about 6% of priests have had sexual relations with children."