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…