UNITED KINGDOM
The Oxford Times
With one announcement, a documentary that might otherwise have slipped under the radar has become the most important film of the week. Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God follows his previous exposés Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) and the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Darkside (2007) in showing how a single shocking incident fits into a bigger and far more egregious picture. But, while Monday’s announcement from Rome stands to deflect attention away from the crimes of Father Lawrence Murphy, it will redouble the focus on the part played by the future Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in the Vatican conspiracy to cover-up the extent of child abuse within the Roman Catholic Church and to prevent those who betrayed the trust of the vulnerable individuals in their care from facing civil justice.
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