Deliver Us from Evil Page #8

the suggestion is

you have something to hide.

For a faith institution,

that's a terrible suggestion.

In Los Angeles, when ordered

to produce the documentation,

the records...

Where you find the truth,

or most of the truth...

by the District Attorney

of Los Angeles County,

Cardinal Mahony's lawyers

cooked up this myth

called "formation privilege"

which has no basis in canon law,

civil law, history, or theology,

that every communication between a bishop

and one of his priests

is equal to confessional

as far as confidentiality is concerned.

There are a lot of

privileged communications

in the state of California.

One of them is reporters

in news media of sources.

That's a very highly protected

protection that you have.

There are between a husband and wife

testifying against each other.

There are a whole list of them.

Those are protected communications,

and so a priest

talking to his bishop

is a protected communication.

As Christian adults,

Catholic, non-Catholic,

Jewish, whatever,

we should always be in the business

of protecting children.

The one thing

that always stuck with me

that Mahony didn't...

The children...

- He didn't protect them.

- Yeah.

He didn't come clean.

He has presided over...

the wholesale sexual abuse...

of dozens and dozens and dozens

of children in his dioceses.

Let me put it this way.

Cardinal Mahony's argument

about the documents

is an argument

David Koresh would love.

Basically, if doctrine

lets you rape kids,

I guess that makes

the Archdiocese of Los Angeles

an official cult.

The last place we found O'Grady

was living with a family in Thurles

in the shadow of the seminary

he'd attended

with the full knowledge

of the bishop,

with the full knowledge

of the rector of the seminary,

and the family he was living with

didn't know.

And the Garda,

the police in Ireland, didn't know.

I could say that my life has been a failure.

I'd like to think that I can still make

some good decisions

and even bright future

for myself as a result.

So, don't always do the right things.

Obviously not, but...

I think what I'm doing

right now is not alone

the best thing,

but I think the only thing.

I'm thinking of writing a letter

to each person that I have

offended sexually in the past.

I do want to apologize to them.

I am... But I don't want that

to be a simple statement.

I think they...

Basically what I want to say to them:

It should not have happened.

It should not have happened.

If I could invite these people

to come and meet

with me one-on-one

and give them the opportunity

to, again, talk to me,

tell me what I did to them.

I need to hear that,

and I think they need to say that.

I can't say it's hard to do this.

I'm kind of happy that I am doing it,

but it's going to be

a very interesting reunion.

And I really, really,

really, really hope they come.

"I'm writing this letter to you

"to invite you to meet with me.

"I would like to apologize

to you again

"for the wrong I did to you.

"It is my hope that this opportunity

will allow you

"the freedom to continue

with your life

"knowing that I have acknowledged

my actions of the past,

"and hopefully enabling you

to continue your life

in a better way from now on. "

"I need to acknowledge

to you face-to-face

that I have molested you sexually

for many years many years ago. "

"In this way I will be able

to respond and apologize

to all those I have offended

in a sexual way. "

He's a piece of crap, man.

He remembered all of our names.

I get so angry to even think

that that guy's alive.

I would kill his mother.

I won't be quoting Scripture.

It won't open with a prayer,

except if anybody wants to,

be they need a...

It might not even close

with a prayer.

I don't expect people

to hug me when they leave.

I don't expect people...

I hope they might

shake hands with me,

and say, "Hey, yeah,

it's over right now. "

And I let them

get on with their lives,

and I'm sure they'll be happy

to let me get on with mine.

Come on down, you know?

We'll have a barbe... It's stupid.

What the f*** is he thinking

writing these letters?

Yeah, that's what we all need.

To see him?

Are you kidding me?

We don't need anything from him.

I want to know

what his motivation is.

I do not want to go over there

so he can get his jollies off

collecting his little family

of abuse victims.

Yeah, his little whatever.

My motivation of going over there...

If I thought that he had

a heart at all to touch,

it would be different.

But I think he's so far gone...

But it would be to disclose

as much as you can

about what you did

while you were here

and putting the nail

in Mahony's coffin

to get the truth about what he knew.

Those are the people.

Those are the letters,

and all I can say is Godspeed.

I hope to see

all of you real soon.

I think the little girl that's five years old

that's scared and afraid of him

is still afraid to go.

And then I think,

I'm a big girl now...

and what I didn't have the courage

as a child to tell him...

it might be nice

to tell him something.

Healing myself wasn't going to...

It was never pending

on what happened to him.

That's... It's within me to get better,

not based on anything that...

I felt like if I was relying on...

his punishment to heal myself,

it seems like that would be

giving too much clout

to the pain that

I'd gone through, you know?

To say that's what I am

and that's who I am...

That's not who I am, so...

When you were a little boy,

were you ever touched

sexually by a priest?

Yes.

And what was that priest's name?

I can't remember.

Do you know where it happened?

When I was an altar boy

at St. Michael's Church,

the event happened there.

How many times

did it happen, Oliver?

Not many.

I'd say two or three times.

I think we all go through

an exploratory stage of that,

but my older brother

did abuse me.

Again, I find it hard

to say the word "abuse"

because I did not consider

that to be abuse at the time.

I think my older brother

initiated it with me.

I remember in the early stages

being uncomfortable with that.

But later when I found out

that he was also...

being sexual with my sister,

I became curious

and probably got involved that way.

So the incidents with your brother

at a younger age,

the incidents with your brother

at an older age when you were 15?

Yes.

Multiple incidents with your sister

when she was approximately nine.

Correct.

Then you had

at least the two incidents

with the visiting priests

when you were 10 or 11.

Yes.

Have you ever thought, Oliver,

that some of your problems

that you encountered as a priest

that led to your incarceration

may be related to that?

I have thought about it,

but I can't seem to make a link.

I'm never going to get

what I want out of this.

Not from Mahony.

I'm never going to see them all in jail.

So who gives a sh*t

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