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By FARRAN SMITH NEHME
November 16, 2012

MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD
Strong, deeply moving. Running time: 107 minutes. Not rated (explicit discussion of sexual abuse). At the Film Forum, Houston and Varick streets.

Public revulsion over the sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is already so widespread that a filmmaker bold enough to retell this tragedy had better be purposeful about it — and Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”) definitely is that.

“Mea Maxima Culpa” is a fire-breathing set of theses nailed on the Vatican’s door.

Gibney structures the film with care, beginning with the depredations of one Father Lawrence Murphy at St. John’s School for the Deaf in Milwaukee. The priest abused the men in the film when they were schoolboys in the 1950s and ’60s, favoring with horrendous cunning the ones whose parents…