The film made several highly controversial claims:

- Father Oliver O’Grady is the most notorious pedophile in the history of the modern Catholic Church.

- Despite early warning signs and complaints from several parishes, the Church lied to parishioners and local law enforcement while continuing to move O’Grady from parish to parish.

- To protect his career, Roger Mahony, O’Grady’s supervising Bishop at the time and current Archbishop of Los Angeles, orchestrated the O’Grady cover-up.

- Church documents prove that since 1973, O’Grady raped and sodomized with the full knowledge of his Catholic superiors.

- The Church was afraid that through the powers of civil discovery, civil attorneys would discover the Church knew O’Grady had probably molested prior to his ordination in the late 1960s.

- The night before O’Grady was scheduled to provide testimony regarding Roger Mahony’s awareness of his history as a child molester and rapist, Mahony’s attorneys went to O’Grady’s jail cell and cut a deal with him. The deal exchanged O’Grady’s silence for a financial annuity � an undisclosed amount of money, that the Diocese of Los Angeles will start to pay him once he turns age 65 in 2011.

- O’Grady “forced his penis into the vagina of a baby”, as stated by Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea, a clergy abuse psychologist, during the 46th minute of the film.

- Over 100,000 victims of clergy sexual abuse have come forward in the United States alone. The movie also reports that this claim is contradicted, however, by the John Jay Report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose figure is of only 4,000 claims covering a period of over 70 years.

-Experts say that more than 80 percent of sexual abuse victims never report their abuse.

-10% of the graduates of St. John’s Seminary, which supplies the “vast majority” of the priests for the West Coast of the United States since 1960, are paedophiles (this claim was attributed to the Los Angeles Times).

- Most countries are just beginning to report clergy abuse.

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

- Pope Benedict XVI was accused of conspiracy to cover up sexual abuse in the United States. At the Vatican’s request, President George W. Bush granted the pope immunity from prosecution.

As you can see by the above information, these claims made by the director are highly contraversial for the Catholic Church. Personally I belive anyone found to be guiltly of these terrible crimes should be judged by accordance of the law.

I still despite everything I have heard have faith in the Catholic Church and faith in movies like this one helping to uncover any wrongs committed in our community. It is important to remember that priests are held in the highest regard and have a similar responsibility to uphold that regard.