Oliver, the protagonist of the documentary, is not unreported. For parents of children who have been victimized, the first appeal department that comes to mind is the bishop of California. But the senior clergy of the American Catholic Church do not want to do such things in their posts. So they either did not report to the police department, or promised to the police department: Oliver, who is a pedophile, will be fired and he will not be responsible for contacting the congregation. Secretly, the church moved Oliver from one diocese to another (a total of three transfers, four diocese in California), and the congregation of the second diocese did not know that the new bishop had pedophilia. Therefore, in the ten years before Oliver's Dongchuang incident, he injured hundreds of children in the parish he was responsible for.
Oliver was arrested because he reached out to his parents. This time, he was finally under a formal investigation by the police: the police were surprised to find that this was far from his first sexual assault. During Oliver's trial, the American church spent a lot of money and energy to prevent the influence of this matter from expanding. As a result, the legal process was terminated after only two months; Oliver was sentenced to 14 years in prison. After his sentence was over, the Catholic Church sent him back to Ireland to provide him with an old age on favorable terms. Of course, the Irish community where Oliver retired was completely unaware that the Vatican sent a retired pastor with pedophilia.
The documentary focused on the Catholic community in the United States, which broke our general understanding of the religious situation in the United States. We used to think that the United States was a country dominated by Puritanism (including Lutheranism, the Presbyterian Church, etc.), and the Catholic community and believers were obviously speechless in the grand narrative (or propaganda) of the United States. Judging from the documentary in which theologians and historians are invited to tell a brief history and important doctrines of Catholicism, the general public in the United States does not know much about Catholicism.
The documentary mainly introduces the knowledge of Catholicism in this way. The first is about the power that clergy has over non-clergy, that is, the sacred power of the pastor over the flock. Secondly, it mentioned the necessity of the church in the way of salvation of believers, so priests can communicate with believers without restriction. Once again, the sacrament ceremony is an important feature that distinguishes Catholics from other believers, and if someone does not marry or divorce through the priest, or has extramarital sex, or approves of abortion, etc., then he/she will lose Eligibility to participate in the sacrament ceremony. Therefore, the Catholic creed is actually politicized. In addition, the film also reviewed the history of church personnel from being able to marry and have children to having to live a life of celibacy, and also revealed how the seminary education system destroyed the normal sexual psychology of male teenagers. (But for the protagonist, Oliver, it’s not because of the theological school. He said that he was molested by priests while serving in the church as a child, and his brother had sex with his sister in front of him. He said, he He was involved because of curiosity. At the time, he was about 9 years old, and his brother and sister were about 10 to 13 years old.) In the
documentary, there is a scholar named Doyle, who was a Catholic pastor because he was involved in the sexual assault case of the church. The victim appealed and had to leave the priesthood. He is still actively participating in the movement to fight for the rights of such victims. He provided the two families mentioned in the documentary with the opportunity to go to the Vatican to appeal to Pope Benedict XIV, including writing a letter of appeal for them. But in the end, in front of St. Paul's Cathedral, which was so white that there seemed to be no impurities at all, they were stopped by church security in long robes. They failed to enter the office area even one step, and their letter remained in their hands in the end. The irony is that Pope Benedict XIV has been in charge of the Office of Sexual Assault for many years. He has handled cases including the aforementioned Oliver, but he has not taken any measures to strengthen the discipline of the priest (or other radical reforms). ), just constantly dealing with the secular world, concealing and beautifying this spiritual ruling group empowered by God.
Doyle has now begun to miss the purity of the early church.
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