Deliver Us from Evil Page #10

Paid, prayed, and obeyed,

was docile, went to Mass,

obeyed all the Commandments,

went to confession

on a regular basis.

For the most part, was ritualized,

obedient, and quiet.

But a good Catholic

is not that at all.

A good Catholic is a Catholic

in the model of Jesus Christ:

A revolutionary,

someone who's not afraid...

Someone who's not afraid

to get up and speak the truth.

Remember, the only time

Christ ever got angry

was when He went to church.

And as we speak,

Tom Doyle goes to Rome,

not because the Pope's

gonna hear him,

but because he has to do

what they should be doing,

and making those known offenders,

such as Oliver O'Grady,

who now resides in Ireland,

known to the community

as an offender.

I think a lot of the people in Rome

are in deep denial

about just how serious this issue is.

Never attempted this before, honestly.

I'm calling Father Tom Doyle,

who is in America.

Yes, you know Father Thomas?

Yeah. He will be coming to Rome.

As far as I know, he's in Rome,

trying to help two victims,

one of whom's our client, Ann Jyono.

They have an appointment

with somebody at the Holy See

to hear their complaint.

I'm doing this for my daughter,

but I said to her,

"if you do it for the other victims

and the children...

"or...

the kids... "

"I'll help. "

By golly.

People got to know!

It's not right.

They haven't a clue, you know,

if it hasn't happened to them.

Nobody has a clue.

They have no idea

what it does to people.

And we're not victims...

Destroys you everywhere.

...in that sense,

but Ann was a victim.

She was raped by this priest!

People understand,

he's isn't a pedophile, he's a rapist!

My anger's so hard.

Right now, I'm in Rome,

and I'm waiting to meet

with the Jyonos,

a family whose children

have been sexually abused

by Oliver O'Grady.

I've not met them.

I'm going to meet them,

and my purpose

is to hopefully help them

begin a healing process.

Good morning.

How are you, dear?

Good morning.

I'm glad to see you.

How do you feel?

This is Ann.

And what I'm gonna do is,

if we preface this one

with a short sentence

and say...

"Bishops, archbishops, and cardinals

have consistently lied

to us and to the public

and to law enforcement agencies

about the cover-up

of sexual abuse

by the clergy, period. "

We'll address it to the Pope,

and it'll be from you specifically,

but speaking in the name

of all those

who have been

victimized and molested,

and I'm gonna put it

in language that they will...

direct language they'll understand.

A lot has changed

in the Catholic Church this year,

but it's still having trouble

responding to the victims

of sexual abuse by priests.

Today, two American women

came to the Vatican

hoping to deliver a letter

to the new Pope.

The guards wouldn't let them in.

Since we are survivors

of clergy abuse,

it has been a very difficult journey,

and we have come

thousands of miles

to try to plead for some sort

of mercy and assistance

with our journey

of pain and healing.

We seek to regain our faith.

And instead of...

embracing them,

reaching out to them,

the institutional church

not only rejected them,

but they revictimized them.

They abused them

by pointing them out to be...

making them out to be

an enemy of the Church.

I got them alone at one point

and expressed a sincere apology,

my profound regrets

as to what had happened to them,

and I apologized to them

in the name of the institution,

the clergy, and the priests,

which I am still legally a part of.

And both of them said,

"No one has ever said

this to us before. "

I made up my mind.

There is no God.

I do not believe in a God, all right?

All of these rules, everything...

they're made up

by man, you know?

I've tried to find...

what it is that...

brought religion

to where it is today,

why, you know,

what differences in them...

the similarities in all of them,

and I think that that's

a big thing for me

is that they all...

share some common theme

or philosophy at some level,

and you can't say

"This one, not that one"

without alienating someone, so...

And that's not...

That wasn't the message

of Jesus or Buddha

or Mohammad or anybody,

so what's...

They're already off-base

at that point,

and that happened

a long time ago,

so... I think it's just all...

all where...

the only place it could have gone

is the wrong direction.

What we need to do as a Church

is to acknowledge our good days

and our bad days,

our good times and our bad times.

Somehow we always seem

to look back

and say, "Well, there were

dark moments and times

"in our history.

We would rather

not dwell on them. "

In a very poetic way, you see?

And that's very nice.

But it's not reality.

What I'd like to hear,

to say, "Hey,

"you know, we had one

heck of an awful time

there in the Middle Ages.

But you know what?

We're still here. "

And that's the point,

if the Church could see it.

And I'm here speaking

on behalf of Brandon...

with his parents today

because this offender...

is still in ministry.

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