AUSTRALIA
ABC – Lateline
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 14/03/2013
Reporter: Kerry Brewster
The soon to be released documentary “Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa” focuses on a predatory priest Father Lawrence Murphy, who systematically abused up to 200 deaf boys growing up in the 1960s in the U.S. City of Milwaukee.
Transcript
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: The psychology of priestly abuse and how some offending priests seek to reconcile evil against holiness is at the heart of a controversial new documentary that explores the first-known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States.
Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa tells the story of four deaf men who were abused as children in the 1960s and sought to expose that abuse, encountering cover-up all the way to the Vatican. It opens next week in Australia.
Shortly we’ll talk to the Oscar-winning director, Alex Gibney. First this report from Kerry Brewster.
KERRY BREWSTER, REPORTER: Oscar award-winning Alex Gibney makes films that scrutinise institutions he considers irredeemingly corrupt.
His latest, Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa, takes on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. He focuses on predatory priest Father Lawrence Murphy who systematically abused up to 200 deaf boys growing up in the 1960s at St John’s School for the Deaf in the US city of Milwaukie.
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