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The Daily Beast

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Andrew Sullivan

Earlier this week, I was privileged to attend a screening of Alex Gibney’s latest piece of documentary brilliance, “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God.” It’s released today. To be honest I want to see it one more time before writing a length about it. It’s about the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis – and the criminal conspiracy reaching right to the current Pope that will one day surely bring the whole house of cards down, so that the church can be rebuilt amid the ruins created by deeply sick and psychologically crippled men at its core. No one is more implicated in covering up this institutionalization of sexual abuse and secrecy than the man who controlled and oversaw every single case of clerical sex abuse in the world from 2001 onwards: Pope Benedict XVI, who knows more…