UNITED STATES
Berger’s Beat
March 18, 2013 Author: Jerry Berger
On the very day that Pope Francis is installed in Rome, a mere four subway stops away from St. Peter’s Square, at Cinema Barberini, the Rome opening of “Mea Maxima Culpa” will be held. It’s a documentary by Alex Gibney about hundreds of deaf boys from a Milwaukee Catholic school who seek justice against Catholic officials for the horrendous abuses they suffered at the hands of the now-deceased Fr. Lawrence Murphy. Gibney, who also did “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (which was nominated in 2005 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature) and “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzerr” (short-listed in 2011 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature) is in Rome for the debut and introduced our town’s David Clohessy of SNAP today at a news conference promoting the film.
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