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Through select case studies, “Deliver Us,” which won Best Documentary Feature at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival, guides the viewer through the experiences of three individuals and their families who suffered at the hands of Father Oliver O’Grady. Despite having raped and sodomized what likely amount to hundreds of children, O’Grady served just seven years in prison and gives his own narrative while walking freely through the streets of Dublin, where he now lives...
...Deliver Us From Evil” is at its best when documenting O’Grady’s openly perverse and seemingly psychotic thought process, and it is also remarkably successful at revealing the destruction he left in his wake. One of the most moving scenes shows the father of one victim, Ann, questioning how and why his daughter suffered in silence for so many years. Recounting how the five-year-old had said nothing, the father breaks down and screams...
...film is shortsighted in its consideration of the wider problem of child abuse in the Church. Showcasing advocates of the victims’ rights like Father Tom Doyle does allow viewers to see the work being done within the Church to combat the problem. But by implicating the Church’s most powerful figure—Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI—in the scandal, the film accuses the entire hierarchy of the cover-up and reconstructs Church history to peripherally implicate priest celibacy as the cause of clergymen’s sexual deviance...
...plane’s collision into a high-rise apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side yesterday hit too close to home. A plane owned by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into Belaire Condominiums, where Shemtov lives with his father. The crash killed Lidle and his flight instructor. “The plane hit literally a floor above my apartment,” Shemtov said. His father, who was not home during the crash, was allowed to enter the building around 6 p.m. last night. “Our apartment is intact but there?...
...When his father died over six years ago, and his mother became ill and died just months later, Ho and his sister were left as orphans in their native Taiwan. Alone in the country, it was the saving graces of an aunt and uncle in Martinez, Ga. that brought the two to the United States, and eventually brought Ho to where he is today...